Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko, e-International Relations

Writing in 1795 Kant in his famous treatise “Perpetual Peace” notes: “The people of the earth have thus entered in varying degrees into a universal community, and it has developed to the point where a violation of rights in one part of the world is felt everywhere. The idea of a cosmopolitan right is therefore not fantastic or overstrained (…)”[1] Almost everybody today has heard the story of the gang rape of a young Indian student which occurred in Delhi on December 16th, 2012. The gang rape (…)

Highlights

En primeur

2013-02-21 Eleventh Coordination Meeting on International Migration United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

2013-02-21 Migration, Greece and the EU BBC Radio 5 Live

2013-02-20 2013 High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development International Organization for Migration, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations Population Fund

2013-02-02 La migration et la mondialisation Les samedis du monde, Radio-Canada

Database

Base de données

The Rights of All Children in the Context of International Migration UN Committee on the Rights of the Child: Report of the 2012 Day of General Discussion

Borders in Motion: Concept and Policy Nexus Ricard Zapata-Barrero

Dublin II Regulation: Lives on Hold Forum réfugiés, Cosi, ECRE and the Hungarian Helsinki Committee

Commentary on EU Law of Free Movement (Ruiz Zambrano, McCarthy and Dereci) Jean-Yves Carlier, FMW – Online Journal on Free Movement of Workers (No 5)

L’instant du danger Michel Peterson

Recensement des évacuations forcées de lieux de vie occupés par des Roms étrangers en France Philippe Goossens, L’Association Europeene pour la defense des droits de l’Homme

The Impact of the Lack of Legal Representation in the Canadian Asylum Process Michael Barutciski, UNHCR

Climate Change, Migration and Security: Best Practice Policy and Operational Options for Mexico Elizabeth Deheza and Jorge Mora, Royal United Services Institute

Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition Open Society Justice Initiative

International Migration News

Les migrations internationales dans les médias

Jason Kenney’s proposal to strip citizenship from ‘terrorists’ undermines Canadian values Sean Rehaag

Petite ritournelle et grande évasion Sandrine Morel

The Dublin II Regulation: 10 Years On and Little to Celebrate ECRE Weekly Bulletin: Editorial

Cost of Charter flight deportations increased eight-fold over last decade Corporate Watch

Visas Are Urged for Lower-Skilled Work Ashley Parker

New Refugee Determination System in Canada Edward C. Corrigan

Immigration Reform and Workers’ Rights The New York Times Editorial

Greece asylum: Journey through a broken system Paul Mason, BBC Newsnight

Comparing the Proposals of 2013 Reform of the United States on Illegal Immigration Shushanik Makaryan, Migration Policy Centre Blog

Toronto considers giving underground migrants access to services without fear Nicholas Keung

The Long Walk Shannon Jensen

Theresa May criticises judges for ‘ignoring’ deportation law BBC News

With No Shortcut to a Green Card, Gay Couples Leave U.S. Julia Preston

Immigration: Number of child detainees doubles in a month Jane Merrick

More southern Europeans are going where the jobs are. But not enough The Economist

Rare mass rally over Singapore immigration plans BBC News

Frontex chief looks beyond EU borders Nikolaj Nielsen

New immigrant detention policy tough on asylum seekers Efrat Arbel and Peter Showler

Meijers Committee calls on the European Parliament to improve safeguards for unaccompanied children and vulnerable asylum seekers European Council on Refugees and Exiles

How a decade of policy change has transformed the immigration landscape Nicholas Keung

Dreamers Fight Deportations Aura Bogado

Ivory Coast man sets himself alight at Rome airport BBC news

Volunteer Squads Chase Illegal Migrants In Russia Claire Bigg

My Family’s Papers Jose Antonio Vargas

Silicon Valley and Immigrant Groups Find Common Cause Somini Sengupta

Do Illegal Immigrants Actually Hurt the U.S. Economy? Adam Davidson

Fix the Immigration Detention System Donald Kerwin

Gridlock on the Rio Grande Veronica Escobar

Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor and Your Economists, Too N. Gregory Mankiw

The slippery slope of revoking citizenship Chris Hall, CBC News

Challenging the Myth of the Undesirability of Low-Skilled Labour in the EU Kathryn Lum, Migration Policy Centre Blog

America’s Genius Glut Ross Eisenbrey

Success of Immigrants’ Children Measured Susan Saulny

Business and Labor Unite to Try to Alter Immigration Laws Steven Greenhouse

Berlusconi’s Brother Uses a Racial Slur for Mario Balotelli Rachel Donadio

Refugee claimants underwent ‘survival of the fittest,’ prosecutor tells hearing Tamils travelled on ship from Sri Lanka to staging areas in Indonesia and Thailand Keith Fraser

Immigration and the Middle Ground The New York Times Editorial

Canada should not strip people, even terrorists, of citizenship The Globe and Mail Editorial

Conditions on Nauru ‘like a concentration camp’ Karen Barlow

Rights group criticizes Malaysia’s secret deportation of 6 Uighur Chinese seeking asylum The Montreal Gazette/Associated Press

Noteboard

Babillard

2013-02-28 PhD Graduate Research Assistantship: Migration, Gender, and New Media University of Leicester

2013-03-26 Migrant and refugee children: Entitlement and access to health care in Canada L’Équipe de recherche et d’intervention transculturelles

2013-04-15 Call for Papers: Forced Migration Review Detention and Deportation – September 2013 issue

2013-05-13 Centre for Refugee Studies 2013 Summer Course York University

2013-05-30 Call for Papers: Illegality Regimes – Mapping the Law of Illegality A Conference at the VU University Amsterdam