Eszter Kollar (she/her)

The issue contributes to a much needed debate on the precise nature and conditions of (in)voluntariness as well as its ethical significance for migrant rights and state obligations.

Ethics & International Affairs has just published our special issue on "Voluntariness and Migration" with brilliant authors and co-editor, François Boucher, Valeria Ottonelli, Tiziana Torresi, Christine Straehle and Michael Blake

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Germans take to streets after AfD meeting on mass deportation plan Protests held amid calls for party to be banned after meeting neo-Nazis to discuss removing asylum seekers

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/j...

PANEL 2: BORDERS, RACIALISATION, AND REFUGEE PROTECTION IN RWANDAWednesday 29 November, 5pm UK via ZoomChair: Dr Nicola PalmerREFUGEE PROTECTION AND AAA AND ... Refugee Protection and AAA and others|Panel 2: Borders, Racialisation & Refugee Protection in Rwanda

Our second, RSC and BorderCrim ‘Borders, Racialisation, and Refugee Protection in Rwanda’ was with Dr Frank Habineza
Dr Felix Ndahinda, Prof Michael Collyer and Dr @uttara.bsky.social is now available here:

Professor Cathryn Costello, Raza Husain KC, and Dr Madeline GarlickWednesday, 22 November 2023, 5pm to 6pmOnlineREFUGEE PROTECTION AND AAA AND OTHERS (2023-4... Refugee Protection and AAA and others | Panel 1: International Refugee Law and Safe Third Countries

With Dr Nicola Palmer, two brilliant seminars on AAA and others. The first with RazaHusain KC, Prof Cathryn Costello
& Dr Madeline Garlick (UNHCR):

Interviewed by the brilliant hosts of my favourite podcast
De Verbranders, with my “comrade pluses” Bridget Anderson and Cynthia Wright.

We discuss the No Borders movements we are a part of and the work-pleasures of working together.

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'Just the rich can do it': our research shows how immigration income requirements devastate families The new proposals will be devastating to any British citizen who falls in love with a foreign partner.

Katharine Charsley and @helenaw.bsky.social on the MIR and its devastating effects on families

Deplorable working conditions for workers renovating COP28 buildings | etui An investigation carried out by the British NGO FairSquare highlights the deplorable working conditions of workers involved in renovating the COP28 buildings in Dubai.

James Lynch castigates the hypocrisy of officials in the emirate, which is hosting an event where one day is devoted to the impact of climate change on health.

www.etui.org/news/deplora...

What are the Tories’ options for cutting net migration to Britain? People have entered the UK in record numbers since the points-based system came in and ministers want to reverse this

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...

The UK must improve labour market enforcement in order to tackle exploitation of workers - Free Move... The UK is falling significantly short of international labour standards. In fact, the government’s labour migration policy and wider hostile environment actively produces risks of labour exploitatio...

Really good, important article on worker exploitation and the structurally inadequate government response - which arguably amounts to facilitation. freemovement.org.uk/the-uk-must-...

UNHCR welcomes the UK Supreme Court judgement on transfer of asylum-seekers | UNHCR UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes today’s judgment by the United Kingdom’s (UK) Supreme Court which found that the proposed transfer of asylum-seekers from the UK to Rwanda under the Migratio...

One good news for today! www.unhcr.org/news/press-r...