Asylum for Containment: EU Cooperation with Tunisia and Turkey for the Externalization of Asylum
Hybrid panel discussion听颁辞-蝉辫辞苍蝉辞谤别诲听by the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism and the ASILE Project
Abstract:
European Union has intensified its cooperation with third countries in the field of asylum and migration and provides support for asylum systems in Tunisia and Turkey through a range of instruments including technical means (advice, training, capacity building), operational assistance (such as Frontex operations) as well as financial support for refugee status determination, refugee reception, migration and border management. In this panel discussion specific focus is given to the instruments鈥� compliance with transparency and accountability principles and international law, the extent to which the results achieved have been oriented towards facilitating mobility or the containment of asylum seekers and refugees, as well as their alignment with the United Nations Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) and the Global Compact on Migration (GCM). The analysis is based on the field research conducted within ASILE Project in selected countries including Tunisia and Turkey. These different case studies allow for the identification of fundamental challenges of European external asylum and migration policy which are not specific to just one third country.
Speakers:
Thomas Spijkerboer, Full Professor of Migration Law at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Faculty of Law
Gamze Ovac谋k, Steinberg Postdoctoral Fellow on Migration Law at 91社区 Faculty of Law and at the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism
Hiba Sha鈥檃th, PhD Researcher at the Department of Geography at York University
Chair: Fran莽ois Cr茅peau, Full Professor at 91社区 Faculty of Law
听is professor of Migration Law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, part of the听听and one of the teachers of the master鈥檚 programme听. Thomas is the leader of the work package on EU Arrangements with Third Countries within the听听funded by European Commission鈥檚 Horizon 2020 program. He is听coordinating the research on Tunisia, Turkey, Niger and Serbia and co-authored country reports and听听together with national researchers. In 2017-2020, he was Raoul Wallenberg professor of international human rights and humanitarian law at Lund University (Sweden), in 2020-2021 International Franqui professor at Ghent University (Belgium), and in September-December 2022 visiting researcher at the听Institut de recherche en droit international et europ茅en de la Sorbonne听in Paris (France).听He has published extensively on the European refugee crisis, the Balkan route and the EU-Turkey statement, both in international academic journals and in blogs.
Gamze Ovac谋k听is the Steinberg Postdoctoral Fellow on Migration Law at 91社区 Faculty of Law and at the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, as well as an assistant professor at Ba艧kent University Faculty of Law. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Gothenburg within the ASILE Project and she co-authored the听. Gamze was a visiting researcher at Radboud University Centre for Migration Law in 2019. She has been working with UNHCR, IOM and ICMPD Turkey offices on various projects. Her current research within the migration and asylum field focuses on safe third country practices, externalization policies, legal responsibility attribution and judicial practices.
听is a doctoral candidate in critical human geography at York University, a graduate research fellow at the Centre for Refugee Studies, and a Global Data and Insights fellow at the Wikimedia Foundation. Hiba has co-authored the听听within the ASILE Project. Prior to starting her PhD, she worked as an analysis and reporting officer with IOM Libya鈥檚 Displacement Tracking Matrix, and with the IOM鈥檚 Regional Office in West and Central Africa. More recently, she has co-led an external evaluation of IOM鈥檚 Regional Development and Protection Programme for North Africa. Hiba obtained her MSc. in Migration, Mobility and Development from SOAS, University of London.
