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The HIP team introduce their forthcoming report challenging five common myths about refugees
Unpacking the New EU Approach to Asylum and Migration
The contents of the New EU Pact on Migration and Asylum are complex and still in negotiation, yet are worth discussing as they represent a realistic starting point for a compromise to be (perhaps) reached in the EU on a crucial and divisive issue.
Making the Maritime Visible: Rethinking Humanitarianism at Sea
The need for humanitarian assistance at sea is more pressing than ever. This article argues that maritime aid prompts us to reconsider traditional humanitarian practices and policies by de-territorialising the existing ‘land-bias’
Rethinking Refuge from Gender-Based Violence: Persecution for Which Convention Reason?
Rarely consulted, specialist legal regimes developed to respond to violence against women offer an important legal framework for cases of gender-based violence constituting grounds for refugee status.
‘Who could thrive where?’ Imagining resettlement as a cooperative mobility strategy
Mobility is crucial for refugees to leave conflict zones and reach safety. Nonetheless, there are not many regular options for refugees to cross borders and enter third countries. But resettlement is one of them.
Rethinking the Controversies of Deportation
Deportation poses crucial ethical and political challenges to the liberal state. Yet largely overlooked is how deportation is related to discrimination and histories of injustice. How can historical contestations help us rethink deportation today?
Who Counts in Crises?
Defining and measuring populations is a core concern for governments, policy-makers, and many others—particularly regarding migration and mobility. Yet the ‘immigrant’ and ‘refugee’ that many people imagine often does not match up with the reality of data.
Smuggling Prohibitions vs. Duties of Humanity
The criminalisation of human smuggling has become central to contemporary measures to combat ‘irregular migration’. In this context there is an urgent need for policymakers to rethink the current definition of smuggling as well as its implications.
Are Reparations Owed to People Displaced by Climate Change?
While political theorists and philosophers alike have begun to consider the claims of climate refugees, they have largely ignored the question of collective rights stemming from the loss of an entire state. What might be owed as reparation?
Rethinking Voluntary Returns from North Africa
Sub-Saharan migrants trying to reach Europe have been subject to mistreatment in North Africa. This situation has led many migrants to return home, sometimes assisted by international humanitarian return programmes - but how humanitarian are they?
Rethinking the ‘European Refugee Crisis’
The trigger for the so-called European refugee crisis is not the arrival of an – albeit unprecedented – inflow of refugees into the EU. The causes in fact lie much deeper.