Rights in Exile Newsletter – March 2019 Issue
Published: 4 Mar 2019
Issue 100, March 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
Web links are in blue.
In this issue:
Articles
- Rights in Exile: Documenting a movement
- Security and Immigration decree produces evictions and uncertainty for thousands of asylum-seekers in Italy
Detention and Deportation News
Short Pieces
- This asylum policy threatens the lives of those seeking protection in the US
- The impact of internet shutdowns in Africa
- The US “Wait in Mexico” policy, access to counsel, and crime
- Interdicting refugees not protecting refugees
- Migrants calling in distress from the Mediterranean returned to Libya by deadly refoulement industry
- When unaccompanied young asylum seekers turn eighteen, many face an immigration cliff edge
- European Commission takes next step in infringement procedure against Hungary for criminalising activities in support of asylum applicants
Case Notes
- Groups file lawsuit against Trump policy forcibly returning asylum seekers to Mexico
- UK must take back refugees despite Brexit, European Court of Justice rules
- The recast Return Directive and its fundamental rights implications
Opinion/Editorial
- Sudan’s game of catch and release: Publicized prisoner release distracts from ongoing arrests and detention
- Here’s how to handle Central American migrants—like the Cuban rafters and Soviet Jews before them
- Conferences and workshops
- Calls for papers
- Courses