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Migration & Asylum

Migration is one of the most contested political and legal issues of our time. This dossier covers asylum law, refugee rights, border governance and integration policy, at the national, European and international level. It examines both the legal frameworks and the human realities they shape.

Blogs

The role of European Courts in contemporary (im)migration governance

The migration domain is made of a congeries of institutional and non-institutional actors contending and negotiating their role and space in the migration governance. What is the role of courts in this complex, stratified and ever-changing context?

Madalina Bianca Moraru • June 16, 2022

Reception of people from Ukraine: Discrimination in international protection?

The granting of temporary protection to migrants from Ukraine, with better rights than for regular asylum seekers, has raised the question of whether this amounts to discrimination.

Peter Rodrigues and Christa Tobler • May 17, 2022

AI in the EU and Access to Justice – A Panel Discussion

Automation may endanger fundamental values in the EU. In a panel discussion on 28 January 2022, experts discussed how the use of AI by the EU administration affects individuals’ access to justice.

Sophie van der Kroon and Melanie Fink • March 03, 2022

No perspective for unaccompanied minors: The wrong implementation of T.Q.

The CJEU ruled in T.Q. that the Dutch policy on unaccompanied minors who do not qualify for international protection is in breach of the EU Returns Directive. New Dutch policy has not corrected this situation.

Mark Klaassen • January 14, 2022

Vulnerable children and the inconvenience of Dutch borders

Dutch borders make the life of some groups of vulnerable children hard. Recent research shows that the rights of undocumented children in Curaçao – mostly from Venezuela – are severely under threat.

Chrisje Sandelowsky • September 23, 2021

Life in limbo: Unaccompanied children transitioning into adulthood

More attention is needed for the challenges experienced by unaccompanied migrant children transitioning into adulthood in the Netherlands.

Stephanie Rap, Kris van der Pas and Tihomir Sabchev • July 06, 2021

Migrant or Asylum Seeker: Is the distinction still relevant?

Regarding the pre-screening phase of the new EU pact on migration and asylum: does this new initiative limit the scope of international protection? Is it truly beneficial for migrants or is it designed to reduce the responsibility of migrant receiving countries?

Shamin Asghari • January 04, 2021

Disembarking the opposition to a relocation scheme for the Mediterranean

Proposals for a temporary disembarkation mechanism for migrants rescued in the Mediterranean have fallen on deaf ears in most EU Member States. A common scheme should instead be embraced as a first step towards an EU approach to disembarkation.

Henriet Baas • December 12, 2019

Dublin IV: Violating Unaccompanied Minor’s Best Interests in the Allocation of Responsibility

The proposed Dublin IV Regulation contradicts the Court’s case law on Member State responsibility for asylum claims of unaccompanied minors and fails to properly protect the child’s best interests.

Lisa van Zelm • May 22, 2018