In mid-June 2026, the European Parliament gave its final approval to amendments to the EU rules on the return of third-country nationals staying irregularly in Union territory, by 418 votes to 218 with 30 abstentions.
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A correction to Jane McAdam and Geoff Gilbert’s article on international protection in the context of climate change and disasters was published in the International Journal of Refugee Law on 29 August 2026.
Francesco Spera addresses how the European Union’s use of soft-law instruments in responding externally to migration and asylum crises relates to the principles of the Treaties and the integration process.
Ingrid V Eagly addresses the difficulties unaccompanied migrant children face in accessing legal information, guardians and free legal assistance during international-protection and status-regularisation procedures in EU Member States.
Guy S Goodwin-Gill focuses on the role of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees in relation to refugee status and international protection. The article addresses the legal relationship between the Convention and those protection frameworks.
Justin Robertson traces how investment migrants acquire foreign status, second passports and residencies while continuing to live in China. The analysis connects this practice of “migration without leaving” with household registration, capital transfers and the regulation of investment migration.
Francesca Cimino, Beatrice Grasso and Fabio Perocco examine the status and access to social rights of third-country nationals in Italy who are subject to expulsion orders but cannot be returned for legal, practical or policy-related reasons.
Efrat Arbel traces how Canada’s asylum reforms between 2020 and 2026 transformed its refugee-protection system and affected its legal obligations towards asylum seekers.
Arian Henning’s Verfassungsblog post, “Computer Says No”, is dated 10 August 2026 and discusses the draft KI-Migrationsverwaltungsgesetz adopted by the German federal cabinet on 29 July 2026.
This article by Ilke Taşdemir, published in the Journal of international relations and political science studies, addresses climate-change-related migration and the debate on “climate refugees” through the European Union’s role in the context of the United Nations Conferences of the Parties.
Çağla Ekin Guner investigates how solidarity with refugees became institutionalised at urban level in Hamburg and Izmir, comparing two institutions founded in 2020 that developed from earlier local initiatives.
Ravit Talmi-Cohn’s article in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies examines how Zera Beta Israel (ZBI) migrants navigate Israel’s overlapping migration regimes through the concept of “limited hybridity.”
The article examines the United Kingdom’s post-Brexit migration and asylum policies in light of the non-refoulement principle and its international-law obligations.
The Crown Prosecution Service has announced that ten people have now received prison sentences for endangering others during small-boat crossings of the Channel.
This article by Sinan Veziroğlu and Mustafa Atatorun examines European Union refugee policy from a normative perspective. It is an academic contribution situated at the intersection of refugee status, international protection and the private international law dimension of aliens law.
This article by Hélia Bracons and José Rodrigues examines migrants’ access to essential rights and services in contexts of inequality. It sits within foreigners law and migration law, with a comparative angle on access to rights.
Elena Barham and Marco Alcocer’s preprint investigates the security consequences of border externalisation—by which destination states press transit countries to intensify migration enforcement—through the 2019 Migrant Protection Protocols (“Remain in Mexico”).
The article asks whether the European Court of Human Rights’ case law on the detention of children for immigration purposes reflects an evolutive interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights as a living instrument.
Jane McAdam authored the academic publication “A sign of precarity or protection? Understanding the role of evacuations from disasters in international protection claims” in International Journal of Refugee Law, published on 2026-07-22.
This article by Tristan Harley, Najeeba Wazefadost and Mohammad Baqir Bayani examines refugee participation in the context of the 1951 Refugee Convention. It appears in the International Journal of Refugee Law as an academic contribution to debate on participation in international refugee law.
Dr Emilie McDonnell authored the academic publication “EU Externalised Migration Control and the Right to Leave” in EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy, published on 2026-07-08. The publication forms part of the private-international-law literature concerning European Union.