When refugees become migrants: State ‘cherry-picking’ for refugee protection
Blog post by Rachel Westerby, independent researcher and writer on migration, refugees and integration.*
(more…)Political persecution in Syria and Eritrea: The use of country knowledge by German courts
Blog post by Valentin Feneberg (Integrative Research Institute Law & Society, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
(more…)The U.S. Asylum Cooperation Agreements: A human rights conundrum
Blog post by Raagini Ramachandran, a student at the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR), Hyderabad, India
(more…)Refugee Rights Across Regions: A comparative overview of legislative good practices in Latin America and the EU
Blog post by Luisa Feline Freier, Universidad del Pacífico (Lima, Peru) and Jean-Pierre Gauci, British Institute of International and Comparative Law (London, UK). This blog post is based on excerpts of their paper (of the same name) published in Refugee Survey Quarterly and available here.
(more…)The EU New Pact on Migration silent on systematic exploitation of labour migrants in Europe: Still no emphasis on ending “the human misery” within its borders
Blog post by Anca Crețu and Bjarney Friðriksdóttir, researchers at Pedro Arrupe Human Rights Institute, University of Deusto.
(more…)Refugees and asylum seekers’ views of legal recognition and its consequences for their integration
Blog post by Basem Mahmud* who holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Free University Berlin. His dissertation was entitled ‘A Grounded Theory Approach to Understanding Emotions and Belonging in Forced Migration’. Currently, he is a Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow at the University of Granada, and visiting researcher at the Migration Research Center (MiReKoc) at Koç University in Istanbul where he is conducting research about refugees in the global economy.
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