Time for a Reset to Address the Principal Cause of Asylum

Blog post by Dr James C. Simeon, the Head of McLaughlin College and an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA), Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at York University, Toronto. He is a former Director of the SPPA, a former Acting Director and Deputy Director at the Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) at York University, and a Senior Research Associate at the Refugee Law Initiative. (more…)

Denmark’s Extraterritorial Asylum Vision

Blog post by Dr Nikolas Feith Tan, a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. He is convenor of the core module ‘Protecting human rights, refugees and displaced persons in international law’ on the RLI’s MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies and chair of the RLI’s Working Group on Externalisation. (more…)

¿Qué significa el desplazamiento interno? Abriendo la caja de Pandora. Reflexiones desde la Red Latinoamericana de Desplazamiento Interno

Este post es producto de los debates sostenidos en el seno Red Latinoamericana de Desplazamiento Interno (LANID). El texto recoge aportaciones de Clara Ines Atehortúa Arredondo, Leticia Calderón Chelius, Sindy Hernández Bonilla, Ramón Martínez Coria, Beariz Eugenia Sánchez-Mojica,  Fabio Lozano Velásquez y Andree Viana Garcés. An English translation of this blog is available here. (more…)

What does internal displacement mean? Opening the Pandora’s Box. Reflections from the Latin American Network on Internal Displacement

This post collects the conclusions reached by members of Latin American Network on Internal Displacement (LANID) after an intense debate on the internal displacement concept. The text collects ideas from Clara Ines Atehortúa Arredondo, Leticia Calderón Chelius, Sindy Hernández Bonilla, Ramón Martínez Coria, Beatriz Eugenia Sánchez-Mojica, Fabio Lozano Velásquez and Andree Viana Garcés. A translation of this post in Spanish is available here. (more…)