This week, the EU Border Agency Frontex released a report showing a 50% decrease in the number of people detected entering the EU irregularly in 2012, compared with the previous year. Only 73,000 persons were detected crossing irregularly into the EU, a record low...
In a resolution 1932 (2013) adopted this week, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has warned against “a dangerous mindset [that] still exists which views Frontex’ activities as being no more than those of member States, with responsibilities...
Applications are now open for the International Summer School in Forced Migration at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. The Summer School fosters dialogue between academics, practitioners and policy makers working to improve the situation of refugees,...
Amnesty International presented this week a petition signed by 70,141 European citizens to the chair of the Civil Liberties Committee, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, who accepted it on behalf of the European Parliament. The petition calls on the European Parliament to...
Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID) has published a report, examining cases of parents who were separated from their children due to immigration detention in the UK. The study reveals that, during their parents’ detention, some children were placed in unstable...
