The ‘Migration Crisis’ in Europe: A Geohistorical Interpretation
Blog post written by Professor Etienne Piguet (University of Neuchâtel), Vice President of CFM/EKM (Federal Commission on Migration FCM). (more…)
Reframing Non-Refoulement as an Individual Right under International Law?
Blog post written by Jenny Poon, a Research Affiliate of the Refugee Law Initiative, a Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Western Ontario, Canada, a qualified Barrister & Solicitor in the Province of Ontario, as well as a Visiting Study Fellow at the University of Oxford, Refugee Studies Centre for Trinity Term 2017. The author may be reached at jpoonlaw@gmail.com. (more…)
Allocation of Responsibility in Times of ‘Crisis’: The Impact of the Exit and Entry Human Rights Principles on Responsibility-Sharing in the EU
Blog post written by Paolo Biondi, a RLI Research Affiliate and current PhD student at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. (more…)
Designating ‘Vulnerability’: The asylum claims of women and sexual minorities
Blog post written by Dr Moira Dustin, Research Fellow, School of Law, Politics and Sociology, University of Sussex. This contribution has been produced within the context of the project ‘Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Claims of Asylum: A European human rights challenge –SOGICA’ (www.sogica.org). This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 677693). This post is published as a contribution to Refugee Week 2017.
Beneficiaries of International Protection in the European Union and the (Absent) European Protection Space
Blog post written by Dr. Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler, Associate Professor in International Refugee Law at the School of Law, University of Reading. Ruvi is also Editor-in-Chief of the Refugee Law Initiative Working Paper Series. Ruvi will present on the ‘Crisis, Cross-border Mobility and State Responses in Europe and Latin America’ panel at the upcoming RLI 2nd Annual Conference. The full conference programme is available here.
In recent years, we have witnessed a European Union struggling to forge a common approach to the admission of onward movement of prospective ‘beneficiaries of international protection’ (BiP), which include 1951 Geneva Convention refugees and those grated ‘subsidiary protection status’ (Qualification Directive (Recast) Article 2), prompting calls by Guy Goodwin-Gill and others for the creation of a European Refugee and Migration Agency. (more…)