About ASILE Project
The ASILE project studies the interactions between emerging international protection systems and the United Nations Global Compact for Refugees (UN GCR), with particular focus on the European Union’s role and contribution. It examines the characteristics of international, country-specific and EU asylum governance instruments and arrangements and their gender and age specific impacts on individuals and sharing of responsibility from the perspective of their effectiveness, fairness and consistency with international and regional human rights and refugee law standards…
Objectives
Advance the state-of-the-art by bringing about a new conceptual and ground-breaking understanding to refugee studies on the notions of containment and mobility, their intersections and their inclusionary and exclusionary effects from the perspective of international refugee protection.
Contribute with a ground-breaking understanding of current and future asylum governance regimes, and the characteristics and impacts of policy and legal instruments and arrangements, including those on responsibility sharing.
To facilitate new ways to bring the voices of refugees in the conceptualisation of emerging international protection systems by examining the impacts of existing mobility policy and legal instruments and arrangements on individuals.
Draw lessons learned for future global and EU policy responses. The project will implement a set of policy engagement activities securing effective linkages between the project research results and relevant policy processes, discourses and outputs in the scope of the UN GCR.
To provide a novel inter-disciplinary and gender-balanced international academic network of outstanding scholars – including project partners and members of international advisory academic board.
Sustainability, outreach and impact. The project will set the foundations for the development of a Global Academic Association on Refugee Studies and the UN GCR. Creation of an ASILE Global Portal, Training Schools and ASILE Fellowship programme for refugee scholars.
Objectives
Advance the state-of-the-art by bringing about a new conceptual and ground-breaking understanding to refugee studies on the notions of containment and mobility, their intersections and their inclusionary and exclusionary effects from the perspective of international refugee protection.
Contribute with a ground-breaking understanding of current and future asylum governance regimes, and the characteristics and impacts of policy and legal instruments and arrangements, including those on responsibility sharing.
To facilitate new ways to bring the voices of refugees in the conceptualisation of emerging international protection systems by examining the impacts of existing mobility policy and legal instruments and arrangements on individuals.
Draw lessons learned for future global and EU policy responses. The project will implement a set of policy engagement activities securing effective linkages between the project research results and relevant policy processes, discourses and outputs in the scope of the UN GCR.
To provide a novel inter-disciplinary and gender-balanced international academic network of outstanding scholars – including project partners and members of international advisory academic board.
Sustainability, outreach and impact. The project will set the foundations for the development of a Global Academic Association on Refugee Studies and the UN GCR. Creation of an ASILE Global Portal, Training Schools and ASILE Fellowship programme for refugee scholars.
Latest News and Events
The new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum in light of the UN Global Compact on Refugees
The first ASILE Forum assesses the implications of the Pact’s dualistic understanding of individuals from the perspective of refugee protection, human rights and the rule of law. It is composed by a kick-off Policy Insight which is followed by reactions by a group of European and international scholars.
The end of the right to seek asylum? : COVID-19 and the future of refugee protection
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on the institution of asylum, exacerbating longer term trends limiting the ability of asylum seekers to cross-borders to seek protection.
Webinar on The Coronavirus and Border Restrictions in the EU: Schengen and the Right to Asylum at Risk?
This Webinar with Commissioner Ylva Johansson will address the impacts of COVID-19 on Schengen rules and the right to seek asylum.
Videos
Interviewing Prof. Thomas Spijkerboer on International and regional human rights and refugee law standards
Prof. Spijkerboer presents the research that will be conducted on the current EU arrangements with third countries of origin and transit of persons seeking international protection.
Interviewing Prof. Jens Vedsted-Hansen on International and regional human rights and refugee law standards
Prof. Vedsted-Hansen talks about the importance to examine the existing international and regional human rights and refugee law standards.
Interviewing Prof. Gregor Noll on Actors Networks and Responsibility Attribution
Prof. Noll presents the main lines of their work within the project on the examination of the field of actors and stakeholders involved in the policy design and implementation of asylum policy and legal instruments and arrangements and the UN GCR.
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