Implementing the Global Compact on Migration (The Marrakesh Compact): Examining the First Regional Review (UNECE Region)
Blog post by Professor Elspeth Guild, Queen Mary University of London, and Dr Tugba Basaran, University of Cambridge (more…)
Understanding Adolescent Domestic Work as Human Trafficking: The example of Peru
Blog post by Leda M. Pérez, Universidad del Pacífico (Lima, Peru) and Luisa Feline Freier, Universidad del Pacífico (Lima, Peru). This blog post is based on their paper “Family bonds: Kinship reciprocity, Female Teenage Trafficking, and Domestic Labor Exploitation Peru” published in the Journal of Human Trafficking and available here. (more…)
The OA case: Game Changer? Private ‘actors of protection’ in European Asylum Law
Blog post by Dr Younous Arbaoui, Assistant Professor, Amsterdam Centre for Migration & Refugee Law (ACMRL), VU University Amsterdam. He is also volunteer President of the Hijra Law Clinic in Morocco. (more…)
Send them to the moon! A polemic on refugee crisis solutions
Blog post by Dr Gerhard Hoffstaedter, an Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Queensland, and Dr Antje Missbach, a Senior Research Fellow at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute at the University of Freiburg.* (more…)
Thailand’s Changing of the Guard: Negotiating the Transition from UNHCR Refugee Status Determination to a National Refugee Screening Mechanism
Blog post by Adam Severson, a US-based human rights lawyer and consultant. From 2012 to 2014, Adam was Legal Officer at Jesuit Refugee Service-Thailand; in 2018, he was awarded a Fulbright grant to study asylum systems in the ASEAN region. (more…)
Shift in the Applicability of the Suspension Clause in the US: Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam
Blog post by Yajat Bansal, a third-year law student from National Law University Odisha (more…)
Malaysia’s Invisible Community Contributors of COVID-19
Blog post by Michelle Low, a research assistant at Monash University’s Global Asia in the 21st Century Multidisciplinary Platform. She is currently working on the ‘Sustainable Assistance for Vulnerable Communities in Asia: The role of private sector actors in managing the refugee crisis in Malaysia’ project. (more…)
How global is the RSQ? A reflection on author affiliation and knowledge production in the global forced migration academic discourse
Blog post by Kathryn Hampton (University of London), Rachel McNally (Carleton University), Michael Joel Nabugere (University of London) and Nadeea Rahim (Carleton University).* (more…)
Voices in limbo: The plight of asylum seekers and refugees in Hong Kong in times of Covid-19
Blog post by Ka Wang Kelvin Lam, a Master of Philosophy student in Sociology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he is researching migration in Asia and immigrant integration. Kelvin is also passionate about doing social services in relations to the well-being of migrants. He can be contacted at kelvinlam@link.cuhk.edu.hk. (more…)
Trafficked adult males and their recognition as members of a particular social group in the United Kingdom’s Upper Tribunal
Blog post by Noemi Magugliani, an Irish Research Council Scholar and Doctoral Fellow at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland Galway, and Legal Researcher at the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN). (more…)