Refugees | European Futures https://www.europeanfutures.ed.ac.uk Edinburgh Europa Institute Tue, 01 May 2018 22:38:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.europeanfutures.ed.ac.uk/files/2015/03/European-Futures-Icon.png Refugees | European Futures https://www.europeanfutures.ed.ac.uk 32 32 The ECtHR Decision in ND and NT: New Human Rights Limits for Frontex? https://www.europeanfutures.ed.ac.uk/the-ecthr-decision-in-nd-and-nt-new-human-rights-limits-for-frontex/ Tue, 03 Apr 2018 08:00:43 +0000 http://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/europablogsite/?p=6299 Valentina Rioseco Vallejos On 3 October 2017, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) handed down its judgement in ND and NT v Spain. It held that the immediate refoulement of two persons from sub-Saharan Africa, carried out by the Spanish Guardia Civil at the Melilla border in August 2014, had violated Article 4 of …

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]]> The Refugee Crisis Has Challenged Europe’s Outsourcing of Migration Control https://www.europeanfutures.ed.ac.uk/the-refugee-crisis-has-challenged-europes-outsourcing-of-migration-control/ Fri, 16 Oct 2015 08:00:06 +0000 http://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/europablogsite/?p=1849 Christina Boswell The refugee crisis in Europe should not be understood simply as a humanitarian crisis, writes Christina Boswell. Those Syrian refugees fleeing to Europe represent just a small fraction of people displaced worldwide. Instead, she argues that the significance of the crisis lies in its disruption of the European project of outsourcing migration control. …

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]]> The Use of #Migrant and #Refugee on Twitter https://www.europeanfutures.ed.ac.uk/the-use-of-migrant-and-refugee-on-twitter/ Tue, 06 Oct 2015 08:00:43 +0000 http://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/europablogsite/?p=1787 Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram In discussions on the mass movement of people from the Mediterranean Basin to Europe, the choice of words can play an important role. Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram explore how users on Twitter make use of the terms ‘migrant’ and ‘refugee’ in the debate. P-GRC0233, IFRCRCS, CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 The movement of …

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