Ramona Rischke

Zeynep Yanaşmayan

Simon Ruhnke

Marcus Engler

In diesem Beitrag argumentieren wir am Beispiel der Türkei und des Libanon, dass die gegenwärtige Ausgestaltung der europäischen Externalisierungspolitik dem wirksamen Schutz von Geflüchteten schadet, der internationalen Verantwortungsteilung zuwiderläuft und zudem die unterstellte Steuerungswirkung (weniger irreguläre Migration in Richtung EU unter Einhaltung der Menschenrechte) nicht entfalten kann. Die Situation von Geflüchteten, einschließlich ihrer rechtlichen Lage, […]

Grażyna Baranowska

Externalizations practices, such as carrier sanctions or pullbacks, force persons on the move to select more dangerous routes to reach their countries of destiny. In consequence, every year, thousands of migrants go missing on life-threatening routes. They leave behind families and communities suffering from the uncertainty of not knowing what has happened to them, whether […]

Leander Kandilige

Thomas Yeboah

Since the so-called immigration crisis in Europe in 2015, a number of attempts have been made to stem the flow of irregular migrants into Europe. This has triggered some hazy and populist ‘innovative’ externalisation policies focused on outsourcing asylum processing and hosting responsibilities to mostly impoverished or opportunistic third countries for a fee. We characterise […]

Aleksandra Ancite-Jepifánova

This article focuses on the link between EU externalisation policies and the concept of migrant instrumentalisation, used by several Member States as a rationale for suspending the right to seek asylum and authorising pushbacks. The instrumentalisation concept gained significant prominence during the EU-Belarus border crisis and has ultimately found its way into EU law as […]

Emilie McDonnell

The trend of typically wealthy countries seeking to shift and shirk their international obligations towards refugees raises serious questions about their adherence to the principle of good faith in international law. Using the UK-Rwanda asylum scheme as a case study, this article examines whether good faith has been fully utilised in challenging externalisation measures. It […]

David N. Tshimba

Uganda is today Africa’s topmost refugee-hosting country, with over 1.5 million refugees mostly settled across the country’s thirteen refugee settlements. The country’s settlement-based refugee hosting model has won widespread acclaim undergirded by substantive external funding, not least from European Union (EU) donor countries. Basing on an ethnographic fieldwork involving refugees who had sought or are […]

Eleonora Celoria

The Italy-Albania migration deal, signed in November 2023, introduces a novel model of asylum externalisation that operates under Italian jurisdiction and applies Italian (and potentially EU) law. This deal has been backed by most EU member states as a valuable addition to Europe’s array of externalisation tools. However, it has faced severe criticism from legal […]

Hassan Ould Moctar

This year, the EU ramped up its efforts to prevent “irregular migration” from Mauritania to the Canary Islands. At the same time, an ongoing degradation of the security situation in north and central Mali has driven a sharp increase in the number of people seeking refuge in eastern Mauritania. As a result, there is a […]