News

We are pleased to share news of the Refugee Law Initiative’s 15th International Refugee Law Seminar Series, hosted in collaboration with Refugee History: Moments in Refugee History and the Development of the Modern Refugee Regime: Understanding refugee law and policy today 

For the 2025 edition of the IMISCOE PhD school, we aim at training PhD candidates and early career researchers affiliated at institutions around the world to develop visual and sensory methodologies in migration research.

Welcome to the first of our Living Refugee Archive Seminar Series events here at the University of East London. 

Melissa Siegel has three new videos out on her YouTube channel: 

 Wednesday 30 October, 5-6pm, Online 
Protection in the UK: the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill 

This seminar will feature a presentation based on Chiara Berneri’s book ‘Private Sponsorship of Refugees in Europe’, which focuses on the European experiences of private sponsorship of refugees.

The Women in Refugee Law (WiRL) online seminar on Climate Change, Displacement and Gender, is taking place on Zoom on Monday 28 October 3:00pm-4:15pm (UK & UTC). 

OECD’s International Migration Division has published two vacancies for: 

This policy brief, produced as part of the Horizon Europe MIrreM Project, is aimed at those engaged in evidence-based policymaking on irregular migration, providing an assessment and tips for use of available data on irregular migration. 

TRACES: Words and images tell stories in different and sometimes complementary ways. This photo-ethnography on young people of Burundian heritage in Belgium and the Netherlands, explores traces of the war in Burundi.

There’s much interest in the Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s deal with Albania to offshore asylum procedures, which started this week, in an attempt to tackle the rise of irregular migration.

The next lecture in the Jean Monnet EU Migration Law and Governance Lecture series is taking place on Monday 14^th October from 15:30-17:00. It will feature Diego Acosta, Professor of European and Migration Law, University of Bristol (UK), on the theme “The Changing Global Migration Law: Free Movement Regimes and the Creation of the New Migrant“.