Towards a Euro-Rwanda policy? The proposed new EU asylum law rules on โ€˜safe third countriesโ€™

 Professor Steve Peers,
Royal Holloway University of London

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via Wikimedia
Commons โ€“ the former Home Secretary meets Rwandaโ€™s foreign minister

Introduction

An unlawful attempt to remove
asylum-seekers to an unsafe coun…

โ€˜Safe countries of originโ€™ in asylum law: the CJEU first interprets the concept

 Professor Steve Peers, Royal
Holloway University of London

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via Wikimedia
commons

 

Introduction

Along with judgments on Afghan
women asylum seekers (discussed here)
and the status of Turkey as a โ€˜safe third coun…

Pyrrhic victory for the Greek government: the CJEU rules on Turkey as a โ€œsafe third countryโ€

Professor Steve Peers, Royal Holloway University of London

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Commons

Hamster idiom credit: Adam Sharp

(Thanks to Zoe Gardner for discussion of the case;
the following analysis is my own)

 

Introduc…

Setting Gender-Based Asylum Straight: The Court of Justiceโ€™s Landing Point

 

 

Salvo Nicolosi
and Tรผrkan Ertuna Lagrand, University of UtrechtPhoto credit: USAID, via Wikimedia Commons

 

Just a couple of weeks after the Taliban regime in
Afghanistan announced a
new decree prohibiting women from being heard …

Recent asylum case law of the CJEU: Distinction, Integration or Extension from ‘Mainstream’ EU law?

 Professor Steve Peers, Royal Holloway University of
London

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Introduction

While attention has been focussed
on the overhaul of EU law on asylum โ€“ which I have analysed in an upcoming
article…

A Further Step to Gender-Sensitive EU Asylum Law: The Case of โ€˜Westernised Womenโ€™

 

Tรผrkan Ertuna Lagrand, Assistant Professor, and Salvo Nicolosi, Senior Assistant
Professor, University of Utrecht

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Commons

 

Gender-based asylum
claims have been gaining momentum in EU law. O…

Legal landmine: the risky proposition of extending the application of the EU Temporary Protection Directive beyond March 2025

  

Dr Meltem
Ineli-Ciger, Associate
Professor, Suleyman Demirel University Faculty of Law; Migration Policy
Centre Associate, European University Institute

 

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Commons

 

What should follow
once t…

The New EU Asylum Laws, part 2: the Reception Conditions Directive

Professor Steve Peers,
Royal Holloway University of London

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Harms, via Wikimedia Commons *sentences with an asterisk have been corrected or updated since the original publication of this post. Most recent update 14 May 2024.&nb…

The New EU Asylum Laws, part 1: the Qualification Regulation

 

Professor Steve Peers,
Royal Holloway University of London*

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Commons

*sentences with an asterisk have been corrected or updated since the original publication of this post. Most recently updated 14 May 2024.&n…

Rethinking Gender-Based Asylum: A Look at the Advocate Generalโ€™s Opinion on Women Fleeing the Taliban

 Tรผrkan Ertuna Lagrand (Assistant
Professor, Utrecht University School of Law) and Salvo Nicolosi (Senior Assistant
Professor, Utrecht University School of Law)Photo credit: USAIDAfghanistan, via Wikimedia Commons

Can a woman be
recognized as a r…

AG de la Tourโ€™s Opinion in C-621/21: A Welcome Clarification on, or an Introduction of Unnecessary Obstacles to, Entitlement to International Protection for Women at Risk of Gender-based Violence?

 

 

Dr Maja Grundler, Lecturer
in Law, Department of Law and Criminology, Royal Holloway,
University of London

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via Wikimedia
Commons

 

 

Introduction

On 20 April 2023, Advocate General …

The new EU Resettlement Framework: the Ugly Duckling of the EU asylum acquis?

Emiliya Bratanova van Harten,
PhD candidate, Lund University

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Many may have been
surprised by the deal struck between the European Parliament and the Council of
the EU on key migration and asylum instruments on 15 Decemb…