Study: Outsourcing Does Not Exempt EU from Responsibility

21st February 2020 | News

The study “Places of Safety in the Mediterranean: The EU’s Policy of Outsourcing Responsibility” assesses the legal implications of disembarkation of migrants and refugees in North African countries by EU state and Frontex vessels. The study, commissioned by the EU...

Interview: WatchTheMed Alarm Phone: A Response for Rescue and a Call for Change

14th February 2020 | News

Interview with representatives from the activist network Alarm Phone: Dr Maurice Stierl is a political scientist at the University of Warwick in the UK; Dr Deanna Dadusc is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Brighton in the UK; Dr Britta Rabe is an...

Spain: Authorities Denounced for Indirect Returns to Mali

7th February 2020 | News

The Spanish Refugee Support Commission (CEAR) denounces the indirect return by Spanish authorities of people of Malian origin to the conflict-torn country via Mauretania, against UNHCR guidelines. In the last eight weeks the Spanish government conducted seven return...

OXFAM Report: Migration Control Objectives Threaten Development Cooperation

31st January 2020 | News

In Oxfam’s recent report entitled “The EU Trust Fund for Africa: Trapped between aid policy and migration politics” the NGO exposes a new and worrying trajectory for development aid that is more closely linked with donors’ migration policies and the implicit aim of...

Greece: Government Hit with Interim Measures and Introducing New List of Safe Country of Origin

10th January 2020 | News

The European Court of Human Rights recently granted interim measures to unaccompanied children living in reception and identification centres (RIC) in the “jungle” of Samos Island. The ruling comes amid a more restrictive approach to asylum seekers from...