The Global Compact on Refugees: which future for a comprehensive instrument in response to people’s displacement

The Global Compact on Refugees: which future for a comprehensive instrument in response to people’s displacement

In a historical period when displacement is a daily concern, the Global Compact on Refugees represents the political ambition of the international community to cooperate for the creation of a framework for more predictable and equitable responsibility-sharing (Durieux, 2019). Indeed, it offers a blueprint for governments, international organizations, and other stakeholders to provide benefits both [...]
Crackdown on NGOs and volunteers helping refugees and other migrants

Crackdown on NGOs and volunteers helping refugees and other migrants

This report, published within the Resoma project (http://www.resoma.eu/), synthesises previous ReSOMA briefs concerning the crackdown on NGOs and volunteers helping refugees and other migrants. Section 1 captures the main issues and controversies in the debate on the policing of humanitarianism and the potential impacts of EU and national anti-migrant smuggling policies on civil society actors. [...]
EU Secondary Movements of Asylum Seekers: a Matter of Effective Protection and Solidarity

EU Secondary Movements of Asylum Seekers: a Matter of Effective Protection and Solidarity

The secondary movements consist in the migrants’ tendency to travel between several EU countries after first arriving to EU territory, driven by different push-pull factors and in breach of the Dublin Regulation. They are both the reflection of asylum seekers’ need to reach countries with more appropriate reception conditions and better opportunities, and the direct [...]