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…
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The ASILE Global Portal is an interactive and visually attractive web platform, through which users are able to have direct access the most relevant research findings, reports and outputs in the areas of asylum, refugee and international protection in light of the UN Global Compact on Refugees (UN GCR).
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The protection elsewhere approach
The event will take point of departure in recent ASILE research findings on the fundamental challenges of the EU’s extraterritorial asylum and migration policy and principles of responsibility attribution in complex multi-actor migration management contexts.
Asylum for Containment: EU Cooperation with Tunisia and Turkey for the Externalization of Asylum
Join us for a hybrid panel discussion,
chaired by Prof. François Crépeau, with speakers: Prof. Thomas Spijkerboer (virtually), Dr. Gamze Ovacık, and Hiba Sha’ath.
Towards A Stylized Model of Dynamicson the Market for Smuggling Services
PUBLICATIONSTowards A Stylized Model of Dynamics on the Market for Smuggling Services Written by Gerard van der Meijden, Orçun Ulusoy, Erik Verhoef, Thomas Spijkerboer (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) / December 2023In 2015-2016, Europe witnessed a sharp increase...
Latest Forum Contributions
Sisyphus keeps on rolling
Contribution by Stefan Rother, Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute
GCM’s whole-of-society pathway to global migration governance
Contribution by Prof. Jorge V. Tigno, University of the Philippines
The Declaration on a Voluntary Solidarity Mechanism and EU Asylum Policy
Closing paper contribution to the Forum on EU Temporary Protection Responses to the Ukraine War and the Future of the EU Asylum System by Sergio Carrera & Roberto Cortinovis
Videos
ASILE Conference Geneva
This last December 12, 2023, Geneva became the epicenter of EU asylum governance with the Global Refugee Forum.
Global Refugee Forum 2023 – Speakers’ Corner
Don’t miss Sergio Carrera, ASILE Project Coordinator, as he took the stage at the Global Refugee Forum’s Speakers’ Corner in Geneve.
Asylum Governance Instruments in Canada, Brazil, South Africa and Turkey – with Sergio Carrera
Watch our explanatory video with Sergio Carrera discussing the key findings of this research.
ASILE Highlights
Check our Final Country Reports
The Country Papers examine and provide evidence on country-specific instruments, their material and personal scope. You will find a total of six Country Fiches: Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Jordan, Niger, Serbia, South Africa, Tunisia and Turkey.
Check our Synthesis Reports
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