Founded in 2024 by Prof. Dr. Ulrike Krause and Dr. Christiane Fröhlich, the initiative “Externalizing Asylum” compiled the first contributions in response to intensifying efforts in the Western/Northern political sphere to externalize asylum. More than 60 scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds with decades of experience in migration and refugee studies responded to the call to provide much needed data and factual analysis for further policy-making.

In 2025, the blog was relaunched under the leadership of Dr. Mariana Gkliati and Dr. Christiane Fröhlich as editors-in-chief and set-up for continuous publication with a multi-disciplinary, multinational editorial board.