Setting the Trends for Resettlement in Europe? Germany’s New Avenues for Refugee Protection

Blog post written by Natalie Welfens, a doctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam. Her PhD project analyzes European resettlement and humanitarian admission programs with a focus on the German context and was awarded a Young Talent research grant by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. Her research focusses on questions of inequalities in refugee protection and categorization practices in transnational policy processes.  (more…)

GCM Commentary: Objective 17: Eliminate all forms of discrimination and promote fact-based public discourse to shape perceptions of migration

Blog post written by Kathryn Allinson, a Refugee Law Initiative Research Affiliate undertaking a PhD in Law at Queen Mary University of London, and forms part of a series of blog posts analysing the final draft (objective by objective) of the UN’s Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.  (more…)

GCM Commentary: Objective 3: Provide accurate and timely information at all stages of migration

Blog post written by Katharine T. Weatherhead, a Refugee Law Initiative Research Affiliate undertaking a PhD in Law at Queen Mary University of London. Katharine’s research is primarily focused on the law and politics of asylum in the EU. The working title of her doctoral thesis is ‘Unravelling Mediterranean Migration: Legal and political knowledge creation and diffusion among asylum seekers, refugees and migrants’. This blog forms part of a series of blog posts analysing the final draft (objective by objective) of the UN’s Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.  (more…)

GCM Commentary: Objective 1: Collect and utilize accurate and disaggregated data as a basis for evidence-based policies

Blog post written by Professor Elspeth Guild (Queen Mary University of London), and forms part of a series of blog posts analysing the final draft (objective by objective) of the UN’s Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. A French translation of this blog is available on the Plateforme Nationale Protection Migrants (PNPM) website. (more…)

GCM Commentary: Editors’ Introduction

Blog post written by Elspeth Guild (Queen Mary University of London) and Tugba Basaran (University of Cambridge), the editors of this series of blog posts analysing the final draft (objective by objective) of the UN’s Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. A French translation of this blog is available on the Plateforme Nationale Protection Migrants (PNPM) website.

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