The Possibility for Regularisation in the UK in Light of the New Plan for Immigration
Blog post by Alan Desmond, University of Leicester, and forms part of a series of blog posts responding to the UK Home Office’s New Plan for Immigration. (more…)
GCM Objective 4 on Legal identity: Adrift between migrant inclusion and migration management
Blog post written by Sandra Mantu, Assistant Professor (Radboud University, the Netherlands) 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 Plan for Immigration: Blaming the Wrong People Leads to Proposing the Wrong Solutions to the Wrong Problems
Blog post by Sheona York (Kent Law Clinic, University of Kent), and forms part of a series of blog posts responding to the UK Home Office’s New Plan for Immigration. (more…)
Disasters, climate change and public order: A principled application of regional refugee definitions
Blog post by Dr Tamara Wood (Visiting Fellow, Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Sydney) and Cleo Hansen-Lohrey (PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania). (more…)
Age Assessment in the New Plan: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed… Something Blue?
Blog post by Dr Ruth Brittle (Nottingham Trent University), and forms part of a series of blog posts responding to the UK Home Office’s New Plan for Immigration. (more…)
Implementation of GCM Objective 21 in the UNECE Region: Selective Interpretation of the Return, Readmission, and Reintegration Commitments
Blog post written by Dr Izabella Majcher, a Senior Legal Officer at European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) and a Refugee Law Initiative Research Affiliate. The views expressed in this blog post are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position of ECRE. The author would like to thank Mariette Grange for her helpful comments on an earlier version of this blog post. Any errors and conclusions remain the author’s alone. This blog post forms part of a series of blog posts examining the implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. (more…)
Entrenching Invisibility and Creating Vulnerability: The Absence of Disability in the UK’s New Plan for Immigration
Blog post by Nicolette Busuttil (Queen Mary University of London), and forms part of a series of blog posts responding to the UK Home Office’s New Plan for Immigration. (more…)
The dead, the missing and the bereaved: Is Objective 8 still a priority?
Blog post by Danai Angeli, Assistant Professor, Bilkent University, and Consultant to the Last Rights Project, and forms part of a series of blog posts examining the implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. (more…)
UK Home Office should seek to remove barriers faced by stateless children born in the UK rather than making it more difficult for them to acquire British citizenship
Blog post by Cynthia Orchard (ENS Individual member) and Nina Murray (Head of Policy & Research at the European Network on Statelessness), and forms part of a series of blog posts responding to the UK Home Office’s New Plan for Immigration. This post was originally published on ENS, available here. (more…)
The Jordan Compact: A model for burden-sharing in the refugee crisis
Blog post by Bouthaina Ben Kridis (Arab Institute for Human Rights) a PhD Candidate in International Humanitarian Law at the University of Carthage, Tunisia. Bouthania is also a Member of the Centre for International and European Law and Maghreb-Europe Relationships in the University of Carthage. (more…)