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“Today asylum lawyers are advocates, mentors, innovators and gamblers”: Interview with Amanda Taylor Senior EDAL Coordinator and Acting Head of ECRE Legal Support and Litigation

21st September 2018 | News

ECRE’s legal support and strategic litigation aims to support asylum seekers and refugees to access their rights through the courts and to effect deeper legal changes through litigation. Legal support involves advice, training and networking for asylum lawyers. ECRE...

Spain: Reopening the Tarajal case to investigate the ‘death’ of 14 migrants

7th September 2018 | News

A Court from Cadiz has reopened for the second time the investigation into the death of 14 people who were had tried to cross the border fence at the beach of Tarajal, that separates Ceuta (Spain) and Morocco, in 2014. It has ruled that the judge from Ceuta –...

116 expulsions in 24 hours by the new Spanish Socialist Government

31st August 2018 | News

The situation is tightening for persons crossing the Southern border of Spain (Frontera Sur) from Morocco. This week the police have arrested 10 migrants who crossed the Spanish border fence in July while last week the new Spanish Government expelled 116 persons...

Op-Ed: Forgotten at the gates of Europe

6th July 2018 | News

By Claudia Bonamini, Policy & Advocacy Officer, Jesuit Refugee Service Europe “Nothing new under the sun” we were thinking, slightly concerned, at JRS Europe, when we started analysing the more than 100 interviews our partners conducted with forced migrants in six...

Editorial: The Story of the Summit: European solutions not EU solutions

29th June 2018 | News

At the Summit on 28 June the EU’s Member States have managed to discuss and reach some agreements on migration without the whole of the EU blowing up. Although the first verdicts are that nothing much has been decided reading between the lines of the European Council...