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- South African parliament hears public comments on the Refugees Amendment Bill
- Australia’s two faces on violence against women
- Kenya camp closure threat triggers involuntary refugee returns to Somalia
- When a refugee isn’t
- After the boats: Refugee reception and the production of irregularity in Italy’s migration crisis
- Supporting aid: what non-lawyers can do to assist asylum seekers
- EASO, EU law and life in the margins
- Production of vulnerability: African refugees in Jordan
- Reintegrating deported citizens into national development: The Jamaican model
- Recent Attacks on Foreigners in Zambia
- Without adequate reflection, new refugee solutions risk failing
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Short Pieces
- Sixty-five years on, 65 million people forcibly displaced
- Morocco’s Droit et Justice Association continues Legal Aid for Refugees programme
- Civil society from across the Asia Pacific meets for 6th Asia Pacific Consultation on Refugee Rights
- 6th Asia Pacific Consultation on Refugee Rights highlights risks to deported failed asylum seekers
- Unaccompanied children refugees in Bulgaria face illegal detention
- Switzerland pushing back migrants to Italy
- Poland: worsening restrictions and refusals of entry at the Eastern border
- “The new terrible”: neglected displacement crisis worsens in Lake Chad region
- UNHCR releases series of operational updates on crisis situations around the world
- Establishing an EU Resettlement Framework: Frequently asked questions
- New Home Office API on gay asylum claims: Not fit for purpose
- Central and North American states vow concerted action on refugees ahead of September UN summits
- Human rights organisations condemn Spain’s decision to exclude undocumented migrants from access to free healthcare
- Hungary: Latest amendments legalise extrajudicial push-back of asylum-seekers
- The ramifications of Kenya’s decision to expel refugees from Dadaab camp
- European Court of Human Rights condemns Hungary for the unjustified and arbitrary detention of an LGBT asylum seeker
- Citation for the award of an Honorary Doctorate to Barbara Harrell-Bond, 27 July 2016 at SOAS, University of London
- Open Letter to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Appalling abuse, neglect of refugees on Nauru: Investigation on remote Pacific island finds deliberate abuse hidden behind wall of secrecy
- Refugees: A small and relatively stable proportion of world migration
- Asylum: EU list of safe countries of origin to replace national lists in 3 years
- Has Kenya’s brinkmanship over Dadaab worked? Kenya looks to UNHCR to help it solve its refugee dilemma
- UN Human rights council moves the ball forward on refugee rights in Thailand, Tanzania
- From refugees to prisoners: new data show that large swathes of the European public want their governments to show more solidarity with refugees, but instead the EU-Turkey deal has paved the way to mass detention
- Members of the European Parliament ask European Union to verify whether Turkey is shooting Syrians who try to cross border
- Tracking conflict worldwide: global overview of trends and outlook for May 2016
- Is a model refugee policy in Africa doomed? Influx from South Sudan pushes Uganda’s progressive system to breaking point
- Dignity has no price tag
- Prohibiting collective expulsion of aliens at the European Court of Human Rights
- Time to reform the way we protect refugees?
- UNHCR Reforms (with some compromise): access to evidence, right to counsel, interpreters
- The UK Immigration Act 2016 in plain English
- Asylum - a right denied: no to the European Union’s lists of “safe countries”!
- Refugees and asylum seekers of Sub-Saharan origin sit-In in front of UNHCR
- The Syrian refugee crisis: the end of the Common European Asylum System?
- The EU and death at sea: the calculated and monitored dying in the Central Mediterranean
- Vietnam: Drop charges against boat returnees
- Statement regarding Sahrawi women held in Tindouf refugee camp
- Children seeking asylum ask federal court to end their detention and appoint a monitor to oversee Obama’s detention policy
- Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) urge government of Kenya to reconsider intended closure of refugee camps
- Reform of rules on refugees’ loss of status urgent following new court decision
- The Fast Track is dead
- Imprisonment and deportation of Iraqi refugees in Lebanon
- Cardiff charity launches major fundraising drive: “Save Asylum Justice”
- Continuing conflicts that create refugees
- Questioning the conventional narrative on African irregular migrants
- Dublin is dead! Long live Dublin! The 4 May 2016 proposal of the European Commission
- Updates on the asylum and migration situation in Hungary: 6-18 May
- Myanmars National Leqgue for Democracy Government Must Protect Rohingya People
- European Commission letter to Greek asylum authorities: All is well in Turkey
- Words of praise, deadly deeds: Turkey’s treatment of refugees
- Families under siege: The hidden costs of the refugee crisis
- NGOs urge government of Kenya to reconsider intended closure of refugee camps
- Government of Kenya statement on the closure of refugee camps
- UNHCR appeals to Kenya over decision to end refugee hosting
Case Notes
- Immigration detention and mental illness in the UK: European Court of Human Rights finds against UK government violated Article 5.1 rights of mentally ill immigration detainee (V.M. v. the United Kingdom, no. 49734/12)
- US federal appeals court rules that class of immigrants are entitled to bond hearing
- Upper Tribunal of the UK Immigration and Asylum Chamber holds that short-term detention does not constitute persecution in Sudan
- UK Court of Appeal concludes that ‘reasonableness test’ is not an assessment of the best interests of the child
- US judge throws out Islamophobic Texas lawsuit against Syrian refugees
- ECtHR rule detention violation of Article 8: J.N. v UK
- Zafar, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the UK Home Department CO/5197/2015
- Decision: AT and another (Article 8 ECHR - Child Refugee - Family Reunification) Eritrea [2016] UKUT 227 (IAC)
- UK legal aid residence test found unlawful and discriminatory
- US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Salvadoran asylum remand victory: Zelaya de Ceron v. Lynch
- J.N. v UK – European Court on Human Rights Rule Detention Violation of Article 8
- Babajanov v. Turkey (no. 49867/08) - forced illegal deportation to Iran unlawful
- MS v Secretary of State for the Home Department, UTIAC, AA/07855/2013
Letters to the Editor
- Hotline for Refugees and Migrants: Appeals Tribunal Adjudicator rejects Israeli Ministry of Interior’s legal opinion regarding army desertion and grounds for refugee status
- Open access special edition of Cosmopolitan Civil Societies features articles on asylum seekers in Australia and Indonesia
- Crowdfunding request for group providing practical support to Nigerians deported from the UK
- Call to demand accountability for police violence against refugees, and boycott referendum on refugee quota system in Hungary
- Summaries of the situations of refugees in the EuroMed region by country
- Open access article on access to justice in Canadian immigration detention
- Post Deportation Monitoring featured in UNHCR/NGO Consultations report
- Hotline for Refugees and Migrants: The first Sudanese refugee has finally been recognised by Israel
- Limited-time discount on Refugee and Migration studies titles in honour of World Refugee Day
- Invitation to join Washington DC rally to support refugees 28 August
- Rights in Exile CoI Experts are a great resource
- Launch of Liverpool network of academics in refugee studies field, 4 July
- Barbara Harrell-Bond: Appeal for Expert Witnesses on FGM
- Legal Aid of Cambodia seeking specialists
- Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network recommends video and interview on trauma in Australian detention centres
- Request for information on basis of US legal disparities between asylees and refugees
- Significant increase in fees for appealing Home Office decisions in the UK
- Time-limited free streaming of documentary on homophobia in Uganda
- Haringey Migrant Support Centre warns of fraudulent British immigration service organisation
- Crowdsourcing effort to support refugee-run media in Kenyan camp
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- Rights in Exile exclusive: The case for refugee legal aid in Tunisia
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Book Reviews
- Refugees’ Rebellion. Issah Hassan Tikumah. Balboa Press, 92 pages, ISBN 978-1-50434-536-1
- Refugee Tales. Manchester: Comma Press, 2016. 160 pp. ISBN: 9781910974230 £8.75
- Making Ubumwe. Power, State and Camps in Rwanda’s Unity-Building Project. By Andrea Purdeková. New York: Berghahn. 2015. 292p.
Issues
- Issue 70-June 2016
- Issue 71-July 2016
- Issue 72-September 2016
- Issue 73-October 2016
- Issue 79-March 2017