Blog post by Era Robbani, a Research Associate at the Centre for Peace and Justice, BRAC University I am writing to you from a place of peace and safety. Although your food, water and electricity are running out, I hope you are doing alright. I hope you still have a roof over your head, even […] The post A Letter to My Parallel Self in Gaza appeared first on Refugee Law Initiative Blog ..read more

Blog post by Yazdan Kargaran who holds a LLM in Human Rights from Nottingham Trent University and currently works as a youth worker at the Nottingham Refugee Forum. Rishi Sunak’s government faces a significant legal and ethical challenge following the UK Supreme Court‘s unanimous ruling against the plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda. The […] The post The Good Faith Dilemma: Analysis of Rishi Sunak’s Asylum Plan to Rwanda appeared first on Refugee Law Initiative Blog ..read more

Blog post by Madeline Holland and Betsy L. Fisher * The last several years have seen a dramatically increased focus on pathways for refugees to relocate to countries offering durable legal status through avenues other than refugee resettlement. These pathways are commonly referred to as complementary pathways, as they complement refugee resettlement and asylum. UNHCR […] The post Modest Proposals for Actors Supporting Third Country Solutions for Refugees appeared first on Refugee Law Initiative Blog ..read more

Blog post by Samin Huq, American University School of International Service By late 2022, at least 1 million people found themselves leaving the Northern Triangle of Central America (NTCA) – which comprises El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras – to go elsewhere in Latin America or to the United States due to poverty and insecurity, environmental […] The post Why Women Leave: Gang and Gender-Based Violence in the Northern Triangle appeared first on Refugee Law Initiative Blog ..read more

Blog post by Dr James C. Simeon (York University) and Professor Elspeth Guild (Queen Mary University of London) Throughout human history migration has been one of its most characteristic features, whether by necessity or by choice. Those groups of humans who had to move elsewhere did so, due to being forced off their traditional lands […] The post The Advancement and Protection of the Human Rights of Refugees and Other Migrants in the Age of the Global Compacts appeared first on Refugee Law Initiative Blog ..read more

Blog post by Dr Yulia Ioffe, Lecturer in Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, UCL* Starting from July 2021, the UK Home Office has housed unaccompanied asylum seeking children arriving in the UK via small boats in hotels. Hundreds of these children have gone missing from the hotels and are suspected of being trafficked and exploited. […] The post Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children: Hotel Accommodation, Removal from Child Welfare system and Risk of Trafficking appeared first on Refugee Law Initiative Blog ..read more

Blog post by Amala Karri, a postgraduate student in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies at the University of Oxford In 2004, Canada and the United States enacted a Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA). Since both countries were safe for asylum-seekers, they decided, anyone who claimed asylum at a port of entry from Canada to the United […] The post The U.S.-Canada Safe Third Country Agreement & Gender-Based Discrimination appeared first on Refugee Law Initiative Blog ..read more

Blog post by Gabriel Maggiore, American University’s School of International Service Over the course of 48 hours this September, 7,000 migrants arrived at the Italian Island of Lampedusa. So far in 2023, 83,000 migrants have crossed the central Mediterranean, compared to 34,000 in this same period last year. Much attention is devoted to those migrants […] The post Unintended Consequences: The Effect of Harsh Italian Migrant Policies on Irregular Agricultural Work appeared first on Refugee Law Initiative Blog ..read more

Blog post by Laura Salzano, University of Barcelona In 2023 there has been an alarming surge in lives lost at sea, surpassing the tragic toll of the preceding year according to UNHCR data. This grim truth is etched deeper by two catastrophic shipwrecks that unfolded close to the European shores. The first, off Steccato di […] The post Lost at Sea: That time Frontex tried to redefine the notion of distress appeared first on Refugee Law Initiative Blog ..read more

Blog post by Dr Aleksandra Jolkina, Research Affiliate, Refugee Law Initiative * Recent years have seen an increase in the violation of asylum-seeker rights in the EU, including through so-called pushbacks. These practices have typically not been authorised by domestic legislation and have been denied or concealed by the relevant Member States. However, this changed with the crisis […] The post Why the Term ‘Instrumentalisation of Migrants’ Should be Reconsidered appeared first on Refugee Law Initiative Blog ..read more