Editorial: Three Lessons and Some New Year’s Resolutions: Asylum at the End of an Unpredictable Year
In the field of asylum policy, years tend to end much as they started – more people displaced, more hostile policies, more border violations, more bad proposals. Not so 2022. If you had predicted at the start of the year that Europe would respond effectively to a...
Balkan Route: Commission’s Plan Focus on Returns, Reports of Pushbacks Continue Amid Investigations Highlighting Systematic Violence, EU Admits Croatia to Schengen Without Regard to Abuses at the Border
The Commission’s action plan on Western Balkans is centred around border management, returns and readmission to third countries. The new study “Black Book of Pushback” documents 25.000 violent pushbacks across the EU amid investigations underlining systematic violence...
Interview with Maria Chiara Monti, Centro Penc: Refugee Children’s Journey Beyond the Traumas of Reaching Europe
Maria Chiara Monti is a psychologist and group psychotherapist as well as the President of Centro Penc Antropologia e Psicologia Geoclinica. Centro Penc is a non-for-profit organisation that provides mental health and psycho-social support to people with a migration...