IRRI Rights in Exile Newsletter – September 2019
Published: 26 Sep 2019
Issue 105
In this issue:
Announcing the new and improved Rights in Exile newsletter!
Articles & Short Pieces
- Digital litter: The downside of using technology to help refugees
- EOIR’s troubling new regulations
- Lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security says new asylum policy violates child immigrants’ rights
- UN rights experts urge more protection for LGBTI refugees
- The situation worsens for asylum-seekers
- Age assessments for unaccompanied children in the US: Alternative facts, policies, and logic
- What “metering” really looks like in South Texas
- Treaty violators make mockery of Refugee Convention
- Access to attorneys difficult for those required to remain in Mexico
- Safeguard the rights of refugees in Turkey
- Matter of L-E-A-: How much did the US Attorney General change?
- An overview and critique of US immigration and asylum policies in the Trump era
- Universal representation: Systemic benefits and the path ahead
- Proactive approaches required for transformative political participation of refugee women and girls
- Africans and Haitians under siege due to new restrictions on mobility in Mexico
Detention and Deportation News
Case Notes
- Matter of A-C-M-: Enslaved by terrorists, forced to cook and clean, and then denied asylum as a result
- Romero Arrazabal v. Barr: The US Seventh Circuit remands CAT claim for second time
- Gurung v. Barr: Trivial inconsistencies are not enough to deny relief on credibility grounds
- US federal appeals court rejects Trump administration’s efforts to deny bond hearing to asylum-seekers
- US Supreme Court allows government to enforce restrictive asylum rule nationwide
- US Attorney General Barr reverses ruling on asylum for those with persecuted family members
- Administrative Court of Munich finds German-Greek Administrative Agreement violates European law and orders return of asylum applicant from Greece
- Italian Administrative Court rules against the Italian government refusal to share documentation of the Italian SAR operations in the Mediterranean Sea
- Swiss court suspends Dublin transfer to Croatia due to summary returns at border with Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Finland: Supreme Administrative Court overturns ruling on asylum application on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity
Opinion/Editorial
- Asean eerily silent on Uighurs
- EU chooses self-interest over compassion for refugees
- El Salvador is in no way safe for asylum seekers
- When I was an asylum seeker I wasn’t allowed to work. Here’s why that must change.
- What happened to the Rohingya was genocide—and it’s time for the US to say it
- AG Barr ruling puts asylum seekers at deadly risk
- Forcing Guatemala into a “safe third country” agreement is jaw-droppingly insane
- El Salvador lacks conditions to offer safety or humanitarian support to asylum-seekers
- Australia’s Orwellian anti-refugee system hints at what’s to come for climate refugees
- A regional refugee crisis in the Americas deserves a regional solution
- The US has “disappeared” more than 42,000 migrants. Where’s the outrage?
- Conferences and workshops
- Calls for papers
- Grants and awards
- Vacancies
ISSN 2049-2650
Editorial Team: Catherine Tyson, Nejla Sammakia, Christian Jorgensen, Cristina de Nicolás Izquierdo, Nicolas Parent, Taylor Brooks, Olivia Bueno, Sirak Akalu Iyassu and Lucia Slot.
Chief Editor: Fiona McKinnon