The latest teaching visit organized in the framework of EUMENIA, saw Prof. Michelle Pace, Professor of Global Studies at Roskilde University, participating to the seminar “Refugee Narratives in Denmark” held on 9th December 2021, coordinated by Prof. Emre İşeri and moderated by Assoc. Prof. Gökay …
Prof. Michelle Pace participated in a discussion at “Scope with Waqar Rizvi” on “The EU: Afghan Refugee Deportations” by Indus News, together with Tim Foxley and Marcus Engler. On this Episode 441, 13 August 2021, Prof. Pace addressed the issue of EU Afghan refugee deportations, the Afghan government’s request …
Professor Michelle Pace, Associate Fellow, Europe Programme at Chatham House, published a new article entitled “Denmark’s immigrants forced out by government policies: Relocating asylum seekers outside Europe is just the latest extreme measure from Denmark’s Social Democrats”.
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A new law enabling Denmark to deport asylum seekers outside Europe while applications are being processed is the latest in a series of extraordinary and extreme measures targeting immigrants from a government going far beyond those taken by other European countries and the European Union (EU).
Under the new law, proposed by Social Democratic prime minister Mette Frederiksen and comfortably passed by Denmark’s parliament the Folketing in a vote of 70 to 24, asylum seekers would be flown to a faraway third country regardless of where they are from – with one option appearing to be Rwanda which signed a diplomatic agreement in March with Denmark leading to speculation it intends to open an asylum processing facility there.
It remains unclear how any external ‘reception centre’ could be administered, and notably whether it would be under Danish or the third country’s jurisdiction. But either way, Denmark still has a legal responsibility to ensure the rights of people transferred to such a camp are protected, not violated.
Read the full Expert Comment by Professor Michelle Pace at the Chatham House.
Prof Michelle Pace successfully organised and participated as a speaker in a two-day conference on “Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the Danish Labour Market: Challenges and Opportunities”, October 5-6, 2020. More on the research project: What opportunities and challenges are associated with the integration of …
New report published by Associate Professor Dr Gökay Özerim (Yaşar University) on the “Situation and Need Analysis Study Report to Improve Support Mechanisms For Young Refugees in Turkey”, TOG Foundation & UNFPA, June 2020.
New article by Dr Beste İşleyen, Dr Jonathan Rokem, Prof. Nando Sigona entitled “Reading Reece Jones’s Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move”, Political Geography, Volume 79, 2020.
The article is available here.
EUMENIA’s first working paper “Assessing the Impact of Turkish Refugee Flows on the EU-Turkey Agreement” by Dr. Nikolaos Lampas is now available here.
Prof. Michelle Pace delivered a training session at a workshop for early career and PhD researchers on “Research methods and ethics in migration and refugee studies”. The workshop focused on different methodological approaches as well as ethical issues that arise when researching refugees, migrants and …
On September 28th, Dr. Gökay Özerim from Yasar University held a workshop debating migration and related concepts. The workshop brought together Turkish youth and young refugees.
The Ibrahim Abu Lughod Institute for International Studies organised a roundtable on the subject of Palestinian Refugees in the Palestinian Media on 13-14/03/2019. More information here (in Arabic).