The intersection between the Commission Communication on a Common Immigration Policy for Europe, another on a Policy Plan on Asylum and the various drafts of the French Presidency's European Pact on Immigration and Asylum, raises a number of questions: First, what are the nature, context and key...

This article sets out the main findings of the research project Documenting the Humanitarian Migration Crisis in the Mediterranean, which maps migration trajectories and transit points across Europe in order to develop a humanitarian response to the Mediterranean migration ‘crisis'. On their...

In den letzten Jahren ist die Zahl der Menschen, die erzwungenermaßen ihre Heimatländer verlassen mussten, auf das höchste Niveau seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg angestiegen. Millionen Menschen versuchen, dem Morden in Regionen wie Syrien, Afghanistan oder dem Südsudan zu entkommen. Andere leiden...

This paper examines how the refugee protection obligations of European countries have been affected by increasing integration and enlargement of the European Union. The creation of an EU area without internal border controls for the movement of persons has had a profound effect on the way in...