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…)
GCM Implementation: Regional Review of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: Belgium
Blog post by Dr Jean-Baptiste Farcy (Universite de Louvain), and forms part of a series of blog posts examining the implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. (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…)
Venezuelans in South America: Applicability of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
Blog post by Javier Ochoa. Javier holds an MA in Latin American Studies from Georgetown University and a Graduate Certificate in Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies from its Institute for the Study of International Migration (cjo52@georgetown.edu) (more…)
Searching for a counsel to go through the asylum process with: Criteria, challenges and consequences
Blog post by Charlotte Dahin, a jurist (BA, MA, LLM) and currently a PhD student at the University of Ottawa (Canada) where she is researching the experiences of asylum seekers during the in-Canada refugee status determination process from a feminist perspective. (more…)
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…)