ASILE: Global Asylum Governance and the EU's role

Protection
asile global governance

Funding

Horizon Europe

Geographic focus

Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Jordan, Niger, Serbia, South Africa, Tunisia, Turkey

Dates

1 December 2019 –

31 March 2024

About

Assessing asylum governance systems, their key instruments and actors at the international, national and EU level. 

Key Findings

  • Asylum governance instruments, including those referred to in the UN Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) as ‘legal and complementary pathways’,  involve sophisticated forms of contained mobility in their design or practical implementation.
  • The concepts of ‘refugee’ and ‘protection’ remain contested across many jurisdictions around the world.
  • The continued or prevailing misuse and proliferation of policies focused on containment, deterrence, pre-entry screening, the mandatory use of expedited border procedures, and de facto/de jure detention have led to well-documented violations of human rights and the rule of law.
  • The existence and interplay of multiple instruments and actors in asylum governance regimes complicate the attribution of international responsibility in cases of violations of international refugee law and human rights. 

Highlighted Publications and Tools

  • Policy Brief  – rights and responsibilities in implementing the United Nations Global Compact on Refugees  
  • Thematic Policy Briefs – insights into migration and asylum in Turkey, Tunisia, South Africa, Jordan, Bangladesh, Greece.
  • Policy Brief – addressing protection implications of EU extra-territorial migration cooperation
  • Policy Brief – Shortcomings in EU cooperation for externalization of asylum: lessons from Niger, Serbia, Tunisia and Turkey
  • Policy Brief – best practices to foster refugee agency in complementary pathways for refugees in Canada 
  • Global Portal – interactive web platform to access ASILE research findings, reports and outputs on the UN Global Compact on Refugees
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Coordinator

Sergio Carrera, Senior Research Fellow and Head of Justice and Home Affairs, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

Partners

  • Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) 
    Aarhus University
  • University of Gothenburg
  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • European University Institute, Migration Policy Centre
  • The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR), University of Oslo
  • University of Cape Town (Refugee Law Clinic)
  • Suleyman Demirel University (SDU)
  • University of Dhaka
  • Newcastle University
  • Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI)
  • Danish Refugee Council 

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