27th September 2019 | News
While the EU Commission signals awareness of the increase in arrivals to Greece and principle willingness to assist, it also underlines that the current number of arrivals remains 91 per cent lower than during the period prior to the EU Turkey agreement in 2016....
27th September 2019 | News
A new report entitled “Lessons not Learned: the failures of asylum decision-making in the UK” compiles findings from over 50 publications issued over the last fifteen years on the quality of decision-making processes in the UK Home Office. Responding to the upcoming...
27th September 2019 | News
The Italian Ministry of Interior adopted a decree on 5 August 2019 to determine the areas in which the border procedure will be applied. The border procedure was introduced in Article 28-bis(1-ter) of the Procedure Decree by the 2018 reform and foresees a 9-day...
27th September 2019 | News
This week, an extensive guidance on respective children’s rights in return policies and practices was published by UNICEF, the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Save the Children, the Platform for International...
20th September 2019 | News
By Leonie Jegen and Franzisca Zanker Leonie Jegen is a researcher at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute where she currently works on the project “The Political Economy of Migration Governance in West Africa” for which she conducted field research in Niger and Senegal...
20th September 2019 | News
By Christian Jakob (@chrjkb) is editor for the German daily taz, die tageszeitung in Berlin. With Simone Schlindwein, he co-authored Dictators as Gatekeepers for Europe: Outsourcing EU border controld to Africa, which was filmed by arte, ZDF and Deutsche Welle....
20th September 2019 | News
The death of a Sudanese man upon interception and a recent UN report again raises alarm over the operations of the EU-funded Libyan Coast Guard praised for “effectively operating” in an internal EU document released by StateWatch. A Sudanese man died a few hours after...
20th September 2019 | News
After four rescue operations, the Ocean Viking is awaiting a port of safety. Maltese and Italian authorities rescue almost 200 ahead of talks on relocation. According to a Tunisian National Guard spokesperson a fishing boat with 23 migrants aboard has sunk off the...
20th September 2019 | News
A slight increase of arrivals to Greece comes with intense debate and potentially grave consequences. Aid workers are warning of a looming catastrophe in the overcrowded camps. However, actual numbers of arrivals and asylum applications remain low compared to 2015/16....
20th September 2019 | News
Around 1000 people were removed from a Sports hall in Grande-Synthe, Northern France, in the largest eviction so far this year. French police “evacuated” around 170 people living inside and around 800 who had settled around the sports hall, offered by local...
