Border policies
It has been a year since the humanitarian crisis began on the Polish-Belarussian border, where a group of Afghan refugees was trapped. After spending several days there, the refugees were pushed back to the Belarusian side by the Polish border guards. Since then, numerous reports of violence towards refugees, but
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Menschen auf der Flucht haben Anspruch auf humanitären Schutz in einem sicheren Land – doch welches Land soll dafür zuständig sein? In der Praxis sind bisherige Bemühungen gescheitert, verbindliche Regelungen zur gemeinsamen Verantwortungsteilung in der Asylpolitik zu etablieren. Ein Vergleich mit der internationalen Klimapolitik zeigt, wie ein wirksamer Rahmen aussehen ...
+ En lire plusInternational law demands that refugees obtain humanitarian protection in a safe country. However, which country should be responsible for which refugee remains a contested and unresolved question of international asylum governance – in particular in the event of refugee emergencies. Sharing the common responsibility of humanitarian protection is motivated by ...
+ En lire plusEn septembre 2020, la Commission européenne présente un « Pacte sur la migration et l’asile » où les règles de Dublin seraient abolies ou tout au moins amendées par un mécanisme de répartition des demandes d’asile après un premier examen dans le pays d’arrivée. Les pays souhaitant accueillir moins de personnes devraient ...
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People worldwide rely on informal practices to resist, survive, care, and relate to each other beyond the control and coercive presence of states and formal institutions. This blog series introduces a recently published special issue of Migration Letters that ethnographically explores how mobilities and informality are entangled in responding to
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