The ongoing Channel migrant crisis has reached unprecedented levels in 2025, prompting the Home Office to appeal to landlords nationwide. As of April, more than 8,064 migrants have crossed the English Channel in small boats, highlighting the severe housing shortages facing the UK government. Why Landlords Are Being Called Upon The situation has escalated significantly, … Read more
The present contribution provides some preliminary considerations concerning the compatibility between the EU independent national mechanisms (INMs) to be set up under EU regulation 2024/1356 and the National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs) set up under the 2002 UN Optional Protocol for the Prevention of Torture. Should existing NPMs be tasked with the EU monitoring mandate envisaged … Read more
Maria Clara Pina (master’s student in Human Rights at the School of Law of the University of Minho) I. Currently, in the so-called era of techno-solutionism,[1] digital technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), have become widely used.[2] We are witnessing the emerging but rapidly evolving phenomenon of border management and control through the use of new … Read more
Alan Desmond, University of Leicester Kevin Fredy Hinterberger, Austrian Federal Chamber of Labour Photo credit: Luxufluxo, via Wikimedia Commons Introduction The 2008 Return Directive sets out common standards and procedures for removal of irregularly staying third-country nationals (TCNs) by all EU Member States, except for Ireland and Denmark, and by the four … Read more
Social services for migrants are often provided by local organisations and “street-level bureaucrats”. Yet as Katerina Glyniadaki explains, when the actors providing these services also have a migration background, they are forced to navigate a double – and at times conflicting – set of pressures and expectations. In times of high influxes of migrants, or … Read more