migration

An ultimatum for the meat industry

In many Western European countries, the meat-processing sector depends heavily on a vulnerable workforce that is poorly protected by anti-human trafficking policies. Is the tide turning?

Interdisciplinary Study of the Law

Governing vulnerability: insights from the Southern European borders

Policies often label migrant sex workers as ‘vulnerable’. But what does vulnerability mean to them? Research from Southern Europe challenges dominant assumptions and policy responses.

Public Law

Why the proposed Dutch ‘two-status’ asylum system is a bad idea

The one-status system in Dutch asylum law is an important achievement. Changing it to a two-status system to restrict family reunification is not only counterproductive, but a violation of children’s rights.

Interdisciplinary Study of the Law

Venezuelan survival migration in the US-Mexico migration corridor

The new arrangement to manage Venezuelan survival migration at the Mexico-US border couples a limited and restrictive regularisation pathway with repressive and punitive measures for irregular migration.

Public Law

Legal mobilization in the field of asylum law: A revival of political opportunity structures?

Increasingly, courts are now institutions where collective actors, like NGOs, want to achieve change. The field of European asylum law is no different in that sense. But who are these actors and why choose litigation as a strategy?

Public Law

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?

Public Law

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.

Interdisciplinary Study of the Law · Private Law

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.

Public Law

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.