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.
Published on 21 August 2026, the independent Declaration asserts a right for people with experience of forced displacement or statelessness to participate in decisions that directly or indirectly affect their protection and human rights.
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.
Emil Śliwiński examines how terrorism-based deprivation of citizenship should be assessed for proportionality under the European Convention on Human Rights. The article compares ECtHR cases involving citizenship deprivation on terrorism grounds with citizenship case law arising in other contexts.
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.
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.
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.
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.
the academic publication “Comparative study of border externalisation and the future of international refugee law”, published on 2026-07-08. The publication forms part of the private-international-law literature concerning United States; European Union; European states.
Dawid Stadniczeńko’s article in AI Law Politics asks whether AI-mediated interpreting and machine translation can satisfy the fair-trial right to adequate language assistance for people who do not understand the language of the proceedings.
Noa Campello Carballido’s article addresses the legal treatment of separated children arriving via the Atlantic route to the Canary Islands and how the right to respect for family life under Article 8 of the ECHR is calibrated in that setting.
Sara Ceballos Padrón and Vladimir Eneraldo Núñez Herrera’s article examines how protection against gender-based persecution has developed in migration law through a multilevel framework, positioned between the United Nations Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration and the European…