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The signatories of the Refugee Convention thought that some people didn’t deserve protection on account of having committed particularly heinous crimes. They therefore introduced “exclusion clauses”, found at Article 1F of the Convention. (...) If you are looking for a detailed review of exclusion clauses 1F(a) and 1F(b), look no further than the case of KM (exclusion, Article 1F(a), Article 1F(b))[2022] UKUT 125, The Upper Tribunal does an impressively deep dive into what constitutes a “crime against humanity” and “serious non-political crime”, and the tests used to assess when someone will fall under those exclusion clauses. https://freemovement.org.uk/upper-tribunal-dives-into-the-refugee-convention-exclusion-clauses/?mc_cid=a62c8caed2&mc_eid=b72b4a153 a THE RULING OF THE COURT Nuetral Citation: [2022] UKUT 00125 (IAC) KM (exclusion; Article 1F(a); Article 1F(b)) Democratic Republic of Congo Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) Heard at F...

The word ‘refugee’ is both evocative and contested; it means different things to different people. For lawyers, the main legal reference point is the UN Refugee Convention of 1951. This concise and engaging book follows the structure of the Convention to explore international refugee law. Including an introduction to the historical and legal context, Colin Yeo draws on his experience as an immigration barrister to explain the present-day legal framework for global refugee protection. Chapters consider: • well-founded fear; • persecution; • the loss of refugee status and exclusion; • the rights of refugees; • and state responses to refugee claims. The book includes studies of key legal cases, reviews the successes and failures of the Convention and looks ahead to the future, including the impact of climate change and the Global Compact on Refugees. Communicating important legal concepts in an approachable way, this is an essential guide for students, lawyers and non-special...

  Published Deadline Location today 14 Jul Utrecht Do you have a background in urban studies, geography, anthropology, sociology, youth studies, gender studies or criminology? Job description Refugee youth often find themselves in precarious positions (insecure housing, lack of social networks, employment restrictions), coupled with financial restrictions, which means that many occupy public spaces of cities/towns where they seek refuge. Their presence in public spaces has however been strongly problematized in Europe. This research project will debate how refugee youth can contribute their own histories, voices and agencies to the development of convivial public spaces and to what extent this can enhance their participation in society. Arts and Cultural Initiatives will be used as an entry point to researching the personal geographies of young refugees and asylum seekers in four European Cities (Newcastle, Leipzig, Brussels and Amsterdam) mapping their ...

  No matter how devastating may be epidemic, natural disaster or famine, a person fleeing them is not a refugee within the terms of the Convention. A v Minister for Immigration & Ethnic Affairs [1997] HCA 4 (Aus HC) As the High Court of Australia highlights in the quote above, there are many, many people around the world in dire need of help who do not fall within the legal definition of a refugee under the 1951 UN Refugee Convention. A quarter of a century on, we might add victims of climate change to the long list of the excluded. So-called “climate refugees” are barely mentioned in the 2018 Global Compact on Refugees , a vastly less consequential document when it comes to refugee protection, and even then only tangentially (“climate, environmental degradation and natural disasters increasingly interact with the drivers of refugee movements”). The issue is more prominently addressed in the Global Compact for Migration , also adopted at the UN in 2018, which...

  15 June 8:00 pm William Hogarth, Noon, (detail), 1738 Online Event Historian and curator Tessa Murdoch will examine the extraordinary international networks resulting from the diaspora of more than 200,000 refugees who left France in the late 17th century to join communities already in exile spread far and wide. First-generation Huguenot refugees included hundreds of trained artists, designers, and craftsmen. Beyond the French borders, they raised the quality of design and workshop practice, passing on skills to their apprentices; sons, godsons, cousins, and to successive generations, who continued to dominate output in the luxury trades. Although silver and silks are the best-known fields with which Huguenot settlers are associated, their significant contribution to architecture, ceramics, design, clock and watchmaking, engraving, furniture, woodwork, sculpture, portraiture, and art education provides fascinating ins...

With her father dead, Eliamma has no choice but to escape the holocaust of her Syrian homeland. The safety of Sweden beckons, but standing in her way is a vengeful smuggler and a storm of anti-immigrant hatred. American expatriate Rob Kingston wants to help her--if they can survive their plunge into the sinister world of international art forgery. Eliamma is a teenage Syrian refugee on the run in Vienna. She's being hunted and she's alone. When an accidental encounter brings her under the protection of American art forger Rob Kingston, the consequences are unexpected and devastating. The time is now, as waves of men, women and children sweep across Europe, desperate to escape the chaos and horrors of a war-scoured Middle East. It's an upheaval unprecedented since the end of World War Two. Among Austrians and their European neighbors, compassion is fighting a losing battle with fear. Into this cauldron plunges Eliamma, a Damascene Christian hoping to find sanctuary in Sweden...

  While the situation on the East Aegean islands received particular attention after the outbreak of the fire in Moria, it has subsided more recently. At the same time, living conditions on the islands continue to be catastrophic. People have little access to medical care, wash facilities, and proper shelter, and are regularly forced to sleep in tents that flood easily in the winter rains. Particularly vulnerable people are not exempt from these conditions. Even in times when the Covid-19 was and is on the verge of an outbreak in the camps, members of at-risk groups continue to live exposed to these conditions without protection. The European Court of Human Rights has now asked the Greek government questions regarding the treatment of a total of eight people, all of whom were living in one of the so-called EU hotspots and had pre-existing medical conditions or were particularly vulnerable. In total, the Court connected 8 cases involving Chios, Kos, Lesvos and Samos, i.e. 4 out of 5...

Lecture ten, Displacement 
, with Leah Zamore, Senior Policy Analyst and director of the Humanitarian Crises program at NYU's Center on International Cooperation. Notes while listening (in my own words)   "Unlike human rights treaties the Refugee Treaty targets not the host country alone but the whole international community as a whole"   "The UNHCR was a group of lawyers who had to check if countries were abiding to the legal framework of the Treaty but the main interaction of the UN is now humanitarian (food, shelter etc)   "Definitions as a refugee by the time was focussed on Europeans. The term of who was a refugee was never meant to be global refugee regime. Eurocentric and timelimited."   "Latin American and African regional refugee treaties are broader"   "Extra protection on top of human right treaties for people who are awarded refugee status. You have to treat them like your own nationals."   "Refoulement is ...

The Proposed Rule, changing the US rules for Asylum, raises the standard of proof from a "significant possibility" to a "reasonable possiblility" that the alien would be persecuted or tortured in the country of removal. In short, this means that it is no longer sufficient that an alien has well-founded fear but has to prove that persecution or torture has happened or will happen. This higher standard is almost the same as requiring that you have written evidence that you are or will be persecuted or tortured. This higher standard is in violation with the Refugee Treaty and its Protocol of 1967, of which the USA is a signatory, and which states explicitly that a well-foudned fear is enough to meet the definition of a refugee.  One could have a discussion on the precise wording of the Treaty and Protocol and how these differ from the Proposed Rule. However, I think it is simply more convincing to observe that this restrictive change of the American rules...

This article analyses how highly skilled refugees experience barriers and enablers to entrepreneurship in the Netherlands. Using the welcoming talent model, the article claims that material and procedural norms as well as the governance of support for refugee entrepreneurship in the Netherlands needs a new design. Through socio‐legal research on the experiences of highly skilled Syrian refugees, private support structures and municipalities with migration, integration and welfare policies and practices, we reveal that financial independence through entrepreneurship requires not just entrepreneurial skills but meeting the right people and not running into municipalities propagating work first. Policies and practices need to be developed in which welcoming entrepreneurial (highly skilled) refugees is key. Welcoming policies and practices are to offer refugees nationwide, equally accessible, transparent support structures, and access to finance instead of barriers towards financial indep...

The Manchester International Roots Orchestra (MIRO) is a unique ensemble of musicians with roots from across the world, including refugee musicians. The musicians of MIRO will come together digitally to perform their characteristic blend of music from across the globe. In this performance, recorded during lockdown, MIRO will present well-loved classics from their repertoire which skilfully combines diverse musical influences from haunting Eastern European melodies, to the delicate textures of Middle Eastern percussion and vocals. Watch from 14th June on YouTube and Instagram Part of Community Arts North West’s Beyond Borders programme https://refugeeweek.org.uk/events/manchester-international-roots-orchestra/ https://www.youtube.com/user/CommunityArtsNW #music #refugee #musicians Interessant artikel? Deel het eens met uw netwerk en help mee met het verspreiden van de bekendheid van dit blog. Er staan wellicht nog meer artikelen op dit weblog die u zullen boeien. Kijk gerust eens rond...

Migrateful runs online cookery classes led by migrant chefs who are struggling to integrate and access employment, due to legal and linguistic barriers. Their mission is to empower and celebrate their chefs on their journey to employment and independence.  See: https://www.migrateful.org/ The program during Refugee Week will be as follows: Vegan Syrian cookery class with Yusuf - Monday 15 June 2020 - 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Vegetarian Iranian cookery class with Parastoo - Tuesday 16 June 2020 - 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Vegetarian Sri Lankan cookery class with Tilly - Tuesday 16 June 2020 - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Vegan Cuban cookery class with Lola (Taught in Spanish) - Wednesday 17 June 2020 - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Vegan Ethiopian cookery class with Woin - Thursday 18 June 2020 - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm The class will be conducted as an interactive virtual cook-along. All participants will be sent a list of ingredients and quantities needed for the recipe, the equipment needed for...

Het webinar is al gehouden en op Youtube geplaatst. Klik hier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fSEGYxHq4o&feature=youtu.be Hier wat informatie: The Child Protection Hub for South East Europe will host a free webinar on 28 January 2020 for professionals in the asylum and integration fields from southeastern Europe. The webinar will focus on innovative counselling methods for refugee women victims of gender-based violence, developed by the European Institute for Criminality Prevention and Control (HEUNI) in partnership with organisations from Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Germany, Finland and Italy. The webinar will focus on the gender-based violence in the context of asylum, stressing the pattern of violence that refugee women have experienced, their coping mechanisms and the challenges they face during the asylum procedure. The webinar’s speaker will be Ms. Inka Lilja from HEUNI, who has a background in law and wide experience in working on gend...

This book explores how the rising numbers of refugees entering Europe from 2015 onwards played into fears of cultural, religious, and ethnic differences across the continent. The migrant, or refugee crisis, prompted fierce debate about European norms and values, with some commentators questioning whether mostly Muslim refugees would be able to adhere to these values, and be able to integrate into a predominantly Christian European society. In this volume, philosophers, legal scholars, anthropologists and sociologists, analyze some of these debates and discuss practical strategies to reconcile the values that underpin the European project with multiculturalism and religious pluralism, whilst at the same time safeguarding the rights of refugees to seek asylum. Country case studies in the book are drawn from France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom; representing states with long histories of immigration...

 Working Paper Series | Global Migration: Consequences and Responses | REFUGEE PROTECTION REGIMES: LEBANON COUNTRY REPORT by Karen Rahme from Le banon Support - Respond This report provides a contextual analysis of the provision of refugee protection in Lebanon. It highlights the absence of a comprehensive refugee protection legal framework, in favour of a set of formal and informal ad hoc policies, which are limited in scope and inclusivity. While the Lebanese polity is a signatory of international conventions calling for non-discriminatory protection, and non-refoulement, it falls short in practice with direct and indirect measures, breaching those very principles. Read more, view and download full text & dataset open access@ https://www.respondmigration.com/…/refugee-protection-regim…   # respondmigration # migration # refugees # asylum # h2020 # respondhorizon2020 # horizon2020 # migrationpolicy # massmigration # migrationgovernance # refu...

It is time to change the definition of refugee Climate change is an existential threat to humanity and as such, should be included in legislation on asylum seeking. by Bill Frelick 26 Jan 2020 With surrounding sea levels rising, it is estimated the island nation of Kiribati will likely become uninhabitable in 10-15 years [File: Reuters/David Gray] Despite recent and increasing efforts by the United States and other governments to narrow their interpretations of the refugee definition and to shirk their protection responsibilities, the need to expand the grounds for asylum is becoming increasingly urgent as the consequences of climate change become more pronounced. A desperate appeal for asylum by a family from a Pacific island may have far-reaching implications for protecting people forcibly displaced by the effects of climate change. It could cause countries around the world to reconsider their laws and policies concerning refugees. The case involves t...