Rights in Exile Newsletter – June 2019 Issue

Issue 103, June 2019

ISSN 2049-2650

Editorial Team: Catherine Tyson, Nejla Sammakia, Kavita Kapur, Christian Jorgensen, Cristina de Nicolas, Nicolas Parent, Taylor Brooks, Olivia Bueno, Sirak Akalu Iyassu and Lucia Slot.

Chief Editor: Fiona McKinnon

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In this issue:

Articles

• Time to reimagine resettlement?
• Migration, asylum and border management: The new role of Frontex in the aftermath of the “refugee crisis”
• GCM Indicators — Objective 21: Cooperate in facilitating safe and dignified return and readmission, as well as sustainable reintegration

News on Countries of Origin

News on Countries of Asylum

Detention and Deportation News

Statelessness

• Registration gives many Rohingya refugees identification for the first time

Short Pieces

• The Malaysian Government must uphold the customary international law of non-refoulement
• Ethiopia’s treatment of its own IDPs making crisis worse
• Former BIA Chairman Paul W. Schmidt excoriates IJs, BIA and CA11 panel in Salvadoran asylum case
• The obstacle to Rohingya return is clear: It’s still Myanmar
• Presidential memorandum furthers attack on asylum seekers in the US
• The deadly consequences of proposed Canadian asylum restrictions
• European Border and Coast Guard: Launch of first ever joint operation outside the EU
• 28 days: The impact of the ‘move on’ period for refugee mental health
• IDAHOT: UNHCR launching consultations on LGBTI refugees’ rights

Case Notes

• The Trump Administration plans to incarcerate some asylum seekers indefinitely
• CJEU on the effect of revocation or refusal to grant refugee status on grounds connected with the protection or security of the host member state
• US Court of Appeals allows Trump Administration to continue its policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico
• Five new requests for preliminary rulings from the CJEU on Dublin III, family reunification, and return
• Judgment in Maltese case against Captain of MV Lifeline
• Judgment in Bulgaria on threat to national security of Syrian asylum applicant
• Case against Sweden on medical age assessment before Chancellor of Justice
• Two BIA decisions allow removal hearings to proceed in the US despite faulty notice to appear

Opinion/Editorial

• Australia’s chance to turn with the tide: Creating a considered and systematic approach to displacement and migration in the context of climate change and disasters
• Refugee status must be respected

Letters to the Editor

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