Interview with Ruben Andersson, an anthropologist and Associate Professor in the Department of International Development, University of Oxford, working on migration, borders and security. He is the author of No Go World: How fear is redrawing our maps and infecting...
Last week, Maltese and Italian ships picked up 435 people on the Med. 124 were intercepted by the Libyan coast guard. As weather conditions enables more departures from the North African coast towards Europe UNHCR urges EU politics to focus on saving lives. Last...
Lawyers of the Bar Association of Izmir were arbitrarily detained in the Harmandalı Removal Centre during a visit to meet with asylum seekers. On 14 May 2019, a group of eight lawyers and one interpreter who entered Harmandalı were held in the interview room of the...
The Home Office has issued interim guidance on age assessment of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, following a successful challenge of its policy in the case of BF (Eritrea) before the Court of Appeal. In its ruling of 23 May 2019, the Court of Appeal held that...
A comparative report published by AIDA, managed by ECRE, provides an update to ECRE’s analysis of reception systems in Europe following the steady decrease in arrivals of refugees and asylum seekers in the past three years. While the past years have undoubtedly...
According to NGOs at least 16 Syrians, some registered with the UN Refuge Agency (UNHCR), were summarily deported from Lebanon despite expressing fears of persecution and torture. While the Lebanese authorities denies the allegations, pressure to return is mounting...
This working paper is examining the importance of employment for the integration of third country nationals, and specifically asylum seekers. It focuses on the example of asylum seekers in Sweden, a country whose legislation encourages access to the labour market for...
NB! Deadline for registration 29 September 2019 Annual General Conference of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) together with the UNHCR-NGO Europe Consultations takes place on 23-24 October 2019 in Brussels, Belgium (Renaissance Brussels Hotel, Rue...
Since early February ECRE and 26 partner organisations have been campaigning to mobilise progressive voters for the EP election under the hashtag #YourVoteOurFurture. The voices carrying the campaign belongs to those most directly targeted by increasingly harsh...
An account from Open Democracy documents how hundreds of Europeans have been criminalised by offering support to migrants. The findings confirm a growing trend of criminalisation across Europe also revealed in a recent report of The Institute of Race Relations (IRR)....
