05 December 2025

Regional Focus: Europe

Short pieces:

10 years of EU-funded migration research: shaping the future of Europe through evidence-driven policy (European Commission, Nov. 2025) [text]

"Moldova Shoulders Disproportionately Large Ukrainian Population, in the Shadow of the European Union and Russia," Migration Information Source, 4 Dec. 2025 [text]

On the perils of the ‘Danish model’ (Border Criminologies Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

S.S. and Others V. Italy: When the ECtHR Chose Borders Over Rights (RLI Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

The UK government’s latest policy approach to asylum and returns: will it work, and at what expense? (RLI Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]
- See also related posts on IPPR and the LSE British Politics and Policy Blog.

**For much more news and info on the latest developments, check out the ECRE Weekly Bulletin.**

New open access book:

Humanitarian Mobilization in Central and Eastern Europe: Local, National and International Perspectives (Manchester Univ. Press, Nov. 2025) [open access]
- "This book explores actors, practices and meanings of humanitarianism in Central and Eastern Europe during the twentieth century. It brings together a diverse group of scholars who offer a cutting-edge perspective on how wars and conflict, state-building processes, nationalist activism and policies, socialist politics or regime changes influenced the emergence and trajectories of humanitarian aid. It examines how international ideas and discourses about humanitarian aid have shaped its practices in the region. It also highlights the agency of aid recipients and looks at how policymakers and experts in the region co-produced paths of humanitarian aid giving. Lastly, it analyses the emergence, development and effects of local humanitarian initiatives; thus, it challenges unidirectional narratives of international and Western-centric humanitarianism."

Journal articles:

"Applying Classical Migration Theories to Forced Displacement: The Case of Displaced Ukrainians in Berlin, Warsaw, and Budapest," KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Latest Articles, 28 Nov. 2025 [open access]

"Asylum as Artifice: Race, Law and Capital as Regimes of Abstraction in the United Kingdom's Asylum Accommodation System," Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Early View, 19 Nov. 2025 [open access]

"Beyond refugee camps: housing solutions for war refugees from Ukraine in Poland," Crime, Law and Social Change, vol. 83, no. 1 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

"The Constitutionality of the Italy–Albania Protocol of November 2023," Nordic Journal of Migration Research, vol. 16, no. 1 (2026) [open access]

"Credibility assessment of religion-based asylum claims from a comparative perspective," Freedom, Security & Justice: European Legal Studies, no. 3 (2025) [open access]

"Facilitating research participation through a research navigator programme: researchers’ insights from a project with asylum seekers and refugees," Conflict and Health, 19:88 (Dec. 2025) [open access]
- Focuses on Sweden.

"Intergroup Contact with Refugees Shapes Levels of Social Fear of Crime," European Journal of Social Psychology, Early View, 18 Nov. 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on Germany.

"Let Me Move: A Legal Analysis of Residence Restrictions on Asylum-Seekers in Ceuta, Melilla and the Canary Islands," Social & Legal Studies, vol. 34, no. 3 (2025) [postprint]

"Migrant Reception Centres and Coercive Social Control: Rule by Legal Uncertainty?," Social & Legal Studies, vol. 34, no. 3 (2025) [open access]
- Focuses on Spain.

"Selective Humanitarianism in Asylum Policies: Yezidi Refugees in Germany and France," Nationalities Papers, FirstView, 26 Nov. 2025 [open access]

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