Fascinating new research by the Mignex project showing that migration-information campaigns in origin countries, the messaging of which generally boil down to 'please don't go', are not only ineffective but can actually INCREASE migration inspirations.
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💡A step forward from 🇪🇸… regularising half a million migrants.

👏Felicidades!

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Our research on the causes and consequences of administrative burdens in the Canadian Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program featured today in @torontostar
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Mass accommodation is a punitive move designed to deter. While dispersal housing is far from perfect it does at least offer opportunities for community engagement & support. Warehousing those seeking sanctuary only exacerbates isolation & produces harm theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/f…

Thanks to the folks Border Criminologies for publishing this piece by Daniela DeBono and I on the #ElHiblu3 .

We explore how the law is weaponised against the most vulnerable in Malta, and discuss Amara, Abdalla & Kader's ongoing struggle for justice.

Coalition for the El Hiblu 3
#DroptheCharges

Excited to announce a new book: Free the Map (out Jan. 10). The book moves beyond the state-centric #cartography of confining borderlines and threatening #migration arrows. #Freethemap humanizes the map and shows the world of connections. nai010 publishers #Hermes nai010.com/nl/publicaties……

Have you been to Samos?
*September '21,the 1st Closed Controlled Access Center for asylum seekers. Funded by 🇪🇺 at a cost 43 million euros
*3964 humans contained vs 3650 capacity
*no water in the camp the last days
* many ACs do not work so no heating
📷Dimitris Choulis

No more indifference. No more deaths at sea.

Many of my colleagues have already commented on the details of the agreed #CEAS reform. I would like to add my two cents on some of the wider political implications for the EU: 🧵 (1/10)

Indeed a historic moment. But a very dark one. You have certainly solved a complicated political puzzle. But to be proud of the outcome shows how completely disconnected you are from people in need of #protection . #CEAS #asylum

Those who made a career out of spreading anti-EU & anti-immigrant propaganda are now warmly embraced by the EU leadership. There is perhaps no better way to undermine EU values and unity.

Next step, we will also welcome and 'work together for all' with Le Pen, Wilders, etc.

Greece has been having some of the harshest penalties in the EU when it comes to smuggling.

One-third of the prison population in Greece is convicted for smuggling (statement of the Migration minister).

Anyone still thinks that harsher penalties would reduce smuggling?

Last day to send your abstract for our workshop in Athens on 25-26 April 2024 (travel & accommodation covered).
Topic: “Nudging forward” as a new strategy for governing forced migration at EU’s periphery
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New very important and thought-provoking critique on the safe legal pathways concept/practice:

“Safe Legal Pathways” or New Colonial Frontiers? A Critical Analysis of European Intervention in the Sahel and the Creation of Anomalous Legal Zones
academic.oup.com/rsq/article/do…

The Common European Asylum race to the bottom
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