Op-Ed: The Child Refugee and the ‘Jungle’ Camps of Calais

Op-Ed: The Child Refugee and the ‘Jungle’ Camps of Calais

By Dr Yasmin Ibrahim, PhD (LSE), FRSA, SFHEA, Reader in the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London.   The child refugee, particularly the unaccompanied child, remains a dilemmatic figure in the landscape of forced migration in the EU...
EU Parliament to vote on sanctions on Hungary

EU Parliament to vote on sanctions on Hungary

A report by MEP Judith Sargentini Rapporteur for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) which calls on the European Council to trigger Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union will be put to vote in the European Parliament on September 12....

Portugal: Persisting detention of children at the airport*

The Portuguese Aliens and Borders Service (SEF) continues to detain groups with special needs, in particular families with children and unaccompanied children, in the Temporary Installation Centre (CIT) of Lisbon Airport. An order by the Ministry of Internal...

Germany: Measures restricting “church asylum” contradict case law*

The German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) has introduced new rules of procedure which restrict “church asylum”, the temporary sanctuary offered by religious institutions to people facing deportation to protect them from undue hardship. Church asylum...