- 17-18.03.2016: European Council Conclusions; UNHCR response
- 15.03.2016: “Later, this month, [Grandi] will issue an appeal for member states [of the UN] to accept at least 10 percent of Syria’s refugees. That’s 400,000 people who need to be resettled, including about 170,000 whom nations have already promised to take,” UN Refugee Chief: Western Leaders Stir Up ‘Hatred for the Stranger, for the Immigrant’.
- 10.03.2016: Observations by the UNHCR Regional Representation for Northern Europe on the draft law proposal on restrictions of the possibility to obtain a residence permit in Sweden (“Begränsningar av möjligheten att få uppehållstillstånd i Sverige – utkast till lagrådsremiss”)
- Responses to the 7 March EU-Turkey summit: UNHCR; ECRE; GPPI – Auf wiedersehen, refugee law; Three legal requirements for the EU-Turkey deal: An interview with James Hathaway; UN refugee agency says it will resettle migrants despite concerns
- 07.03.2016: Turkey Places Conditions on EU for Migrant Help
- 25.02.2016: Austria and 9 Balkan States Agree on Steps to Address Refugee Crisis, aiming “to choke off the flow of refugees from Greece, effectively imposing their own response to the migrant crisis while the EU has been paralyzed over what to do.”
- 17.02.2016: On Macedonia’s recent “audition,” Fortress Europe’s Balkan Outpost
- 12.02.2016: on increased resettlement of refugees in Turkey, the Right plan–and the wrong one–to address the refugee crisis
- 12.02.2016: “By assuming dependency the Danish refugee bill is actually creating it,” The Danish refugee bill and what happens when you treat everyone the same
- 11.02.2016: NATO jumps in the mix, NATO will send ships to the Aegean Sea to deter human trafficking with a mandate that is likely to evolve, including intercepting boats and returning them to Turkey, A turning-point in the refugee crisis?; NATO goes to sea to save the refugees; Is sending NATO to ‘stem the refugee flow’ illegal?
- 10.02.2016: “What does it mean to the people in Calais (or those who are not, but might as well be), if they can so easily be used to evoke fears of invasion, of a swarming terror? Cameron’s underlying logic involves trading on the dehumanized foreigner, a meme for the modern bogeyman, usefully deployed to frighten not children but British voters into good behaviour. And so, the call to the humanitarian and human rights community is not simply to defend law and policies or to deliver assistance, but to counter (the principle of) humanity under attack and the equally powerful banalization of the attack. That is where it starts. That is where it always starts.” Operation Fear, Redux
- 10.02.2016: a great overview of the regional developments, Overwhelmed by refugee flows, Scandinavia tempers its warm welcome; The death of the most generous nation on Earth
- 08.02.2016: three bad ideas: pay Turkey to keep people there; trap people in Greece; and, make life miserable for those who get here, Fear and Loathing of Refugees in Europe
- 06.02.2016: How to manage the migrant crisis: curbing “push factors” by beefing up aid, using “hotspots,” and halting uncontrolled migrant flows in Europe.
- 05.06.2016: These are the toughest places for asylum seekers to enter Europe
- 03.02.2016: The Finnish president adds his voice to the choir for change, President Niinisto: Migrants pose challenge to western values
- 2.02.2016: On Islam and the crisis of liberal values in Europe, “The Elephant in the Room“
- 01.02.2016: A way for Europe to remove chaos from the migration crisis, “It is time for the EU to recognize that the mismanaged, chaotic nature of the recent refugee flow is as much — if not more — of a threat than the numbers of refugees itself.”
- 01.02.2016: Europe’s refugee story has hardly begun, “There are only two variables: what the EU does next and what the European people do.”
- 31.01.2016: Europe’s immigration bind: how to act morally while heeding the will of its people, “This dilemma exists not because European populations are particularly drawn to immoral or unworkable policies but because of the way that the immigration issue has been framed by politicians of all hues over the past 30 years.”
- 30.01.2016: On the EU-Turkey deal, “It was one of the most important European foreign-policy initiatives in years, but there was not a sniff of strategy to it,” Value shoppers
- 29.01.2016: HRW’s Letter and memorandum to donors attending the “Supporting Syria and the Region” conference
- 29.01.2016: ECRE strongly opposes legitimizing push-backs by declaring Turkey a “safe third country; ICG’s EU Global Strategy: Expert Opinion
- 29.01.2016: “The jewelry law is a warning, therefore, of how far Europe could sink if we are not able to address this problem together,” There is something rotten in the state of Denmark
- 29.01.2016: Pascal Brice’s lecture, Can Europe build a unified response to the asylum crisis?
- 28.01.2016: Rights groups criticize Europe refugee resettlement plan, “…top-level politicians may be willing to use mass resettlement as a way of managing the fallout from the European refugee crisis. The plan has been criticized by rights groups because it would go hand in hand with the expulsion, possibly via ferry, of most refugees who land on European shores in the future.”
- 28.01.2016: David Cameron Agrees to Resettle Lone Child Refugees But Not From Europe
- 27.01.2016: EU warns Greece over border controls
- January 2016: On the economics behind building borders, Who is cashing in on keeping migrants out?
- 25.01.2016: The ever-expanding list of European policies that target refugees and EU laws designed to deter refugees
- 23.01.2016: On the political challenges in Europe, An ill wind
- 23.01.2016: On refugee cams vs. camps full of refugees, The Calais Jungle isn’t a refugee camp, it’s a camp full of refugees — and there’s a huge difference.
- 22.01.2016: A recap of 2015, Europe’s New Normal
- 22.01.2016: A helpful, succinct overview, Could the refugee crisis really break up the European Union?
- 22.01.2016: A roundup of comments from Davos, French PM Manuel Valls says refugee crisis is ‘destabilizing’ Europe; Migrant crisis: EU at grave risk, warns France PM Valls
- 20.01.2016: A recording of Cathryn Costello’s seminar at RSC – Destination Europe: States, borders and refugees
- 20.01.2016: An editorial, “It is vital both that Europe’s external borders are properly managed and that the task of absorbing the refugees is proportionally shared, maybe by a quota, hard though it is.” The Guardian view on EU refugee controls: sharing is the only solution
- 20.01.2016: Four Syrian refugees must be brought from Calais camp to Britain, judges rule
- 20.01.2016: UK lobbies against plan to scrap EU’s Dublin resolution
- 20.01.2016: “It is now reasonably clear that the Dublin III Regulation has failed, whether that is because of its cynical application by Member States or because of the increase in entrants due to the catastrophe in North Africa. Whatever replaces it must be fair to Member States and fair to the people risking their lives to escape persecution.” Dublin regulation to be scrapped?
- 19.01.2016: EU to shift refugee burden to northern states (ahem, is this why Nordic governments are so keen on changing their laws right now?)
- 14.01.2016: from the World Economic Forum, 3 ways for countries to build resilience to mass refugee flow
- January 2016: Humanity adrift
- “The answer lies in Europe’s dysfunctional asylum policy which, to borrow the phrasing of Refugee Law scholar Cathryn Costello, majors in shifting responsibility for refugees and migrants instead of sharing it.”
- “Dutch academic Hein de Haas believes the Left has boxed itself in when it comes to migration by drawing on humanitarian arguments and neglecting practical ones.‘You can’t persuade people to have the same values as you,’ he tells me in a weary tone when we meet in an Oxford bookshop. Instead, he has spent years running the numbers. His analysis tracks migration flows and policy over the past century in 163 countries. And his findings are startling. His work on visa policy shows that border controls have often spurred settlement, not stopped it.” [links in original text]
On debates re: European burden sharing
Amanda Cellini 