Setting the Trends for Resettlement in Europe? Germany’s New Avenues for Refugee Protection

Blog post written by Natalie Welfens, a doctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam. Her PhD project analyzes European resettlement and humanitarian admission programs with a focus on the German context and was awarded a Young Talent research grant by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. Her research focusses on questions of inequalities in refugee protection and categorization practices in transnational policy processes.  (more…)

How Israel’s Refugee System for African Asylum Seekers and Refugees Violates International Law

Blog post by Ryan Corbett who is a Legal Advisor for Asylum Access Malaysia, and can be reached at Ryan.L.Corbett@gmail.com. Ryan has work experience in the field of refugee and migration issues in the US, Egypt, Israel and Malaysia. She holds a Bachelors from Dickinson College, a Masters in Conflict Resolution from Tel Aviv University, and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law. (more…)

Enhancing Refugee Protection Through the Criminalization of ‘Mass Forced Displacement’

Blog post written by Professor James C. Simeon (York University, Canada). A more detailed paper and argument was recently presented on the subject of persistent protracted armed conflict and the criminalization of ‘mass forced displacement’, as a serious international crime and an atrocity crime, at the Refugee Law Initiative’s Third Annual Conference held in London on 18-19 July 2018. (more…)