Short pieces:
Ceuta and the Politics of ‘Instrumentalised Migration’: How a Border Situation Became Part of Europe’s Wider Legal Battle to Restrict Access (OpinioJuris, Sept. 2026) [text]
Europe borrows Australia’s asylum script – outsourcing rights (The Interpreter Blog, Sept. 2026) [text]
Immigration in Sweden: how the country went from one of Europe’s most welcoming, to one of its most restrictive (The Conversation, Sept. 2026) [text]
"State of the European Union 2026," ECRE Weekly Bulletin, 17 Sept. 2026 [text]
UNHCR publishes detailed observations raising concerns over the Immigration and Asylum Bill (EIN, Sept. 2026) [text]
- Focuses on the UK.
**For much more news and info on the latest developments, check out the ECRE Weekly Bulletin.**
New open access book:
Migration Power Europe: Between Norms and Leverage in the EU's Global Role (European University Institute, July 2026) [open access]
- "This volume conceptualises the European Union as a distinctive migration power: an actor that governs human mobility through several forms of power at once. ...Across twelve chapters, the contributors examine how the EU governs migration through externalisation to neighbouring and transit states, through interdependence rather than direct territorial control, and through the hybridisation of humanitarian, developmental, security, and diplomatic rationales, sustained by financial, legal, infrastructural, and symbolic architectures. The cases range across the Mediterranean, Türkiye, Morocco, Greece, and sub-Saharan Africa, extend to the EU’s own internal institutions, and reach back to the displacement politics of the late 1940s. Rather than seeking to prove the framework universally, the volume stress-tests and refines it through empirically diverse contributions. In doing so, it treats the tensions it surfaces, between coercion and consent, dependence and co-production, and crisis and the long term, as productive openings for theory. The result is a vocabulary for analysing the European Union as a migration power, and for marking the limits of that power."
Reports:
Latest Asylum Trends: Mid-Year Review 2026 (EU Agency for Asylum, Sept. 2026) [text]
- See also related ECRE observations.
Journal articles:
"Between Institutional and Non-Institutional Agency Among Asylum Seekers in Spain," Migraciones Internacionales, vol. 17 (2026) [open access]
- Available in English and Spanish.
"Coerced Voluntariness: Parliamentary Narratives on Return Migration in Germany and Turkey," International Migration, vol. 64, no. 5 (Sept. 2026) [open access]
"Conceptualising Identity Transformations of the Apostate Refugee through Un/Learning," Sociological Review, OnlineFirst, 8 Aug. 2026 [open access]
- Focuses on the UK.
"Humanitarismo y refugio: la gobernanza ambigua de la protección internacional en Madrid desde la perspectiva de los actores institucionales," Migraciones, Latest Articles, 29 May 2026 [open access]
"Immigration and European Identity: Negotiating the Boundaries of Belonging," The European Legacy:
Toward New Paradigms, Latest Articles, 14 Sept. 2026 [open access]
- Introduction to forthcoming special issues. Several of the articles have also been posted online, one of which is open access.
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, vol. 8, no. 1 (Sept. 2026) [open access]
- Special issue on "Humanitarianism in Times of Democratic Transition: Perspectives from Southern Europe."
"Perception bias: how official statistics shape attitudes towards immigrants," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 8 Sept. 2026 [open access]
- Focuses on Italy.
"(Re)producing change in migration studies: Methodological reflections from a longitudinal qualitative panel study with Ukrainian protection holders in Germany," Migration Studies, vol. 14, no. 4 (Dec. 2026) [open access]
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