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Op-ed: Externalizing brutality to Libya is not an answer to displacement

1st December 2017 | News

By Dr. Martin Lemberg-Pedersen, Assistant professor, Global Refugee Studies, Aalborg University In 2015, the political meltdown that defined the European response to the global refugee crises, laid bare dilemmas long in the making. Since then, European citizens have...

Interview: The Media Representation of Refugees and Migrants in Europe

1st December 2017 | News

Interview with Torsten Moritz, Churches Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME) on the report CHANGING THE NARRATIVE: Media Representation of Refugees and Migrants in Europe, CCME & World Association for Christian Communication – Europe Region (WACC) Since...

AIDA Country Report: Portugal*

1st December 2017 | News

The new Country Report on Portugal, the 21st country covered by the Asylum Information Database, provides a detailed account of the country’s legal framework, policy and practice relating to the asylum procedure, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and...

Amid concerns from civil society, newly arrived migrants are temporarily placed in a soon-to-be prison in Spain

24th November 2017 | News

Over five hundred migrants from Algeria and sub-Saharan Africa who reached the Spanish shores over the past weekend have been placed by the Spanish Ministry of Interior in a centre that will be used as a penitentiary facility in the very near future in Archidona,...

Greek judges recommend legal restrictions to accelerate procedure on the islands

24th November 2017 | News

On 14 November 2017 the General Commission of the Greek Administrative Courts published a letter to the Ministers of Justice and Migration Policy and Directors of the Asylum Service and the Appeals Authority, containing proposals to accelerate the processing of asylum...