The “Innovative” Italy-Albania Deal under Scrutiny In 2023, Italy and Albania concluded a Protocol that allows Italy both to process asylum applications through an accelerated border procedure lasting up to 28 days and to carry out returns in Albania. Italy has built two centers for this purpose that opened on October 14. One, in Shengjin, … 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
Professor Colin Murray, Newcastle Law School Photo credit: Wknight94, via Wikimedia Commons Introduction The courtroom was anything but packed on a grey Monday morning in Belfast. There were no camera crews outside. And yet, for a small band of cognoscenti who gathered to hear Humphreys J’s decision, something significant was about to happen. … Read more
The brand new UK authorities is eager to ascertain itself as robust and competent on migration. Denny Pencheva and Conor Kelly argue the nation’s coverage on irregular migration must be rooted in pragmatic cooperation with France, Eire and the broader EU. One of many first acts of the UK’s new Labour authorities after successful energy … Read more
