Refugee Situation Worsens with the Pandemic: Are we doing enough?
Blog post by Lavanya Pathak and Rishabh Mishra, fifth-year students pursuing B.A LLB(Hons.) from the National University of Study and Research in Law, Ranchi, India
The Enduring Marginalisation of the Roma: Conflict and Asylum
Blog post by Sarah Edgcumbe, a PhD student with the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. Her research focuses on Roma conceptions of peace and everyday resistance in post-conflict environments (more…)
A ‘Supportive and Catalytic’ Supervisor? UNHCR’S Role in the Global Compact on Refugees
Blog post by Niamh Kinchin, a senior lecturer at the School of Law, University of Wollongong, which she joined in January 2015. Prior to academia, she was employed for a number of years at the Commonwealth Administrative Appeals Tribunal as a legal officer. This post is based on her upcoming article in the Refugee Survey Quarterly of the same title. (more…)
The Escalating Crisis of Internal Displacement
Blog post by Grace Benson, a PhD student at the School of International Service at American University, studying forced migration and comparative refugee resettlement policy. (more…)
The New Pact on Migration and Asylum: Human Rights challenges to border procedures
Blog post by Janna Wessels, Assistant Professor, Amsterdam Centre for Migration & Refugee Law (ACMRL), VU University Amsterdam. This blog post is based on the open-access REMAP study on ‘Human Rights Challenges to European Migration Policy’which she co-authored with Jürgen Bast and Frederik von Harbou. (more…)
Disappearing States, Rising Statelessness: The Twin Crises Just Around the Corner
Blog post by Jennifer Saxon, a graduate student at the School of International Service at American University, specializing in human rights and refugee studies, and Grace Benson, a Ph.D. student at the School of International Service at American University, studying forced migration and comparative refugee resettlement policy. (more…)
Hidden from view: Refugees’ contributions to the development of early international refugee law and policy
Blog post by Tristan Harley, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia). This blog post is based on excerpts of his paper, Refugee Participation Revisited: The Contributions of Refugees to Early International Refugee Law and Policy, published in Refugee Survey Quarterly and available here. (more…)