The Russian invasion of Ukraine in late February of 2022 caused a humanitarian refugee crisis on a scale unseen since World War II. The scale and speed at which refugees surged into other European countries required significant resources to respond to this influx. This study explores the...

The international law defines who are refugees, their rights and the legal obligations of states that receive them. However, the actual formulation and implementation of asylum law are based on politically and historically contingent construction of 'a refugee' determined largely by the nation...

This open access book discusses how, and to what extent, the legal and institutional regimes and the socio-cultural environments of a range of European countries (the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Italy, Switzerland and the UK), in the framework of EU laws and policies, have a...