Brussels, March 26 – The MORE research project, coordinated by the University of Barcelona and funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe Program, will present its preliminary results at the European Parliament. MORE explores return and readmission policies, analysing the logic that legitimises them as a tool for migration governance and their consequences on the […]
Read the full statement of the four research projects response to the European Commission’s proposal for a Regulation establishing a common system for returns We, the undersigned EU-funded research projects, issue this joint statement to clarify our position on the European Commission’s Proposal for a Regulation Establishing a Common System for Returns (the “proposal”). The proposal published on the […]
The project MORE: Motivations, Experiences And Consequences Of Returns And Readmissions Policy: Revealing And Developing Effective Alternatives celebrates its first year with a partners meeting in Ljubljana (Slovienia). During the meeting partners presented the preliminary comparative results of WP1, which deepens into the construction of political and policy discourses around returns and readmission, and […]
This week, the PEARL consortium concluded its two-year effort with the Final Project Event in Paris. Dedicated to developing the PEARL e-course and a Toolbox for professionals, on December 11th, we proudly unveiled the project outcomes and launched the online participatory space along with the inaugural issue of the PEARL magazine. The comprehensive e-course targets […]
Being “left-behind”? The relevance of inequalities and their territorial dimension has become increasingly prominent in academic debate and political discourse. This issue gained particular attention after the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump in 2016. It is in this context that, at the end of 2022, the project EXIT: Exploring sustainable strategies to counteract […]
MORE: Motivations, experiences and consequences of returns and readmissions policy: revealing and developing effective alternatives The returns and readmissions policies constitute an essential part of the European Union and its member states’ response to irregular migration. These policies have led to a reduction in pathways to safeguard the rights of migrant populations across Europe. The […]
Areas that are ‘left behind’? Territorial Inequalities in eight European Countries The EXIT research project aims to explore the causes and implications of socio-economic inequalities from a territorial perspective, proposing ways to address these inequalities through action research using an interdisciplinary and multisite approach, with the participation of communities on the ground. The project is […]
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On Friday November the 20th Olga Jubany, Ignacio Elpidio Domínguez, and Malin Roiha are going to participate in the webinar “La justícia restaurativa davant de delictes d’odi i discriminació”, organised by the Direcció General d’Execució Penal a la Comunitat i de Justícia Juvenil and the Centre d’Estudis Jurídics i Formació Especialitzada of the Generalitat de Catalunya’s Justice Department. The webinar is included as part of the European Restorative Justice Week, and in this event the ESRU […]
Professor Olga Jubany, director of the ESRU, has recently published the chapter The Unspoken Legacy of Asylum Racism, Nationalism, and the Neo‐colonialist Social Construction of Asylum Policies within The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism, published by Wiley. The chapter analyses the asylum phenomenon from the perspective of the social construction of otherness, and it does […]