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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ASILE Training School – Containing refugees and migrants? Allocating and Attributing Responsibility for Human Rights Violations
We launch a new Call for Applications for a two-day and a half training seminar for researchers specialized on migration, refugee and human rights studies.
A New Special Issue on the Rule of Law and Human Mobility in the Age of the Global Compacts
Read our new Blogpost by Tamas Molnar, Marion Panizzon and Daniela Vitiello on the Rule of Law and Human Mobility in the Age of the Global Compacts – Classics in New Refractions
ASILE paper on Refugee Recognition and Resettlement
This working paper explores refugee recognition processes, in particular refugee status determination (RSD), and resettlement processes, with the aim of opening up new lines of scholarly and policy enquiry.
Latest Forum Contributions
Are those fleeing Ukraine refugees?
Contribution by Hugo Storey
The proximity trap: How geography is misused in the differential treatment of Ukrainian refugees to hide for the underlying global apartheid in the EUropean border regime
Contribution by Rodrigo Bueno Lacy &
Henk van Houtum
Temporary Protection and EU Solidarity: Reflecting on European Racism
Contribution by Prof. Dora Kostakopoulou, KU Leuven
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.
Check our Country Fiches
The Country Fiches 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, South Africa and Turkey.
Check our Working Papers Series
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