RLI 4th Annual Conference
The RLI Annual Conference serves as a dedicated forum for bringing together decision-makers and practitioners, policymakers, academics and students to share, discover and debate the latest thinking and developments in the refugee protection field. This year’s special theme – ‘Rethinking the “Regional” in Refugee Law and Policy’ – reflects on how a host of ‘regional’ questions loom large for refugee protection in 2019.
Full details, including registration, available on our website. See here for the conference programme.
Solidarity with/out Borders
Blog post by Dr Eleni Karageorgiou (Lund University) and Professor Thomas Spijkerboer (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam). It is not original to point out that the 2015 European refugee ‘crisis’ was not caused by numbers – Turkey hosted ten times as many Syrians per...
The Recast of the EU Returns Directive: Human Rights Lost Again?*
Blog post written by Dr Izabella Majcher, a Refugee Law Initiative Research Affiliate and researcher at the Global Detention...
A Tale of Two Camps: The Dissociation of Kakuma and Dadaab under the Self-Reliance Agenda in Kenya
Blog post written by Dr Cory Rodgers (Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford) who is presenting on a panel entitled 'Regional Trends in the Pursuit of Durable Solutions in eastern Africa' at the upcoming RLI 4th Annual Conference. The conference draft programme is available...
The Role of the “Regional”: Shoring Up Refugee Rights?
Blog post written by Professor Jaya Ramji-Nogales (Temple University) who is the convenor of the panel 'The Role of the “Regional”: Shoring Up Refugee Rights?' at the upcoming RLI 4th Annual Conference. The conference draft programme is available online...
European Border and Coast Guard: The EU force of securitisation in migration governance
Blog post written by Mariana Gkliati, an RLI affiliate and a PhD researcher at Leiden University, working on the accountability of Frontex for human rights violations during its operations. Mariana will present on the 'Regional Institutions in Europe' panel...
Why is Asia Known as the Region that Rejects the Refugee Convention?
Blog post written by Professor Susan Kneebone (University of Melbourne) who is the convenor of two panels at the upcoming RLI 4th Annual Conference: 'Human Rights and the Refugee Convention in Asia: Nationality, States and “Regionalism”' and 'Protection of Refugees in...