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
Refugee Lawyers in Egypt
Blog post by Haramain A. Jebrail, a refugee Legal Officer, and Rebecca Leabeater, a Senior Legal Officer, in Saint Andrew’s Refugee Services, based in Cairo, Egypt. Both work in the Refugee Status Determination Team in the Refugee Legal Aid Program at StARS, assisting clients in their refugee claim process. Haramain is a qualified lawyer with a degree in law from Egypt, and Rebecca is a qualified lawyer from Australia.
(more…)Persecuted, Refuged and Misgendered: No Legal Recognition for Persecuted Trans Refugees in Hungary
By Rahul Garg, a B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) student reading law and policy sciences at the National Law University, Jodhpur. His research interests include gender studies, human rights, international refugee law and international humanitarian law.
(more…)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.
(more…)Disingenuous, dishonest and dangerous: the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum
Blog post by Jeff Crisp, Associate Fellow at Chatham House and Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.
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