28th February 2020 | News
ECRE has become increasingly concerned about the impact of Europe’s toxic migration control policies on other regions, including Africa. As European and some EU policy-makers clamour to make migration deals with African governments, to get them to prevent...
28th February 2020 | News
Author: Foni Joyce, UNHCR Global Refugee Youth Advisory Council* This working paper acknowledges that EU programmes providing humanitarian aid for refugees in Kenya have been beneficial to refugees and host communities. However, it argues that these programmes view...
28th February 2020 | News
Author: Leila Muriithia, Refugee Consortium of Kenya* The working paper illustrates the breadth of cooperation that exists between the EU and Kenya and highlights that especially in the area of development cooperation more could be done to seize opportunities to...
28th February 2020 | News
Author: Tsion Tadesse Abebe, Institute for Security Studies* This working paper analyses the cooperation between the European Union (EU) and Ethiopia on migration and refugee issues from the perspective of the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF) and...
28th February 2020 | News
Author: Daniel Thiombiano, Caritas Développement Niger* This working paper argues that EU cooperation with Niger on migration is marked by the EU’s priority of stopping onward migration from the country altogether. It argues that the rigid focus on securitising...
28th February 2020 | News
Author: Badara Ndiaye, Migrafrique* This working paper assesses the EU’s cooperation with Senegal on migration and finds that a focus on fighting irregular migration and facilitating returns has been paired with an excessively restrictive visa policy towards...
28th February 2020 | News
Author: Mohammed Khachani, AMERM: Mohammed V Rabat University* This working paper analyses the priorities and the impact of EU cooperation with Morocco on migration. It finds that as a result of the EU’s focus on the ‘fight against’ irregular migration Morocco has...
28th February 2020 | News
Author: Andrew Songa* This working paper outlines the way in which the EU has elevated migration as a key issue within the EU-AU partnership, which resulted in significant financial support for migration-related projects and policies. It goes on to problematize the...
21st February 2020 | News
ECRE’s study on the implementation of the Dublin Regulation III, has just been published by the Europpean Parliament Research Service which commissioned it. Drawing largely on statistics from the Asylum Information Database (AIDA) database, managed by ECRE and fed by...
21st February 2020 | News
A new round of marches and protests have taken place in the Balkans along EU’s external borders. In Bosnia and Herzegovina 700 people were prevented by police from breaking out of the Miral camp, protesting their conditions as well as abuse by authorities across the...
