Main Debate

  • What are the effects of transit migration from Sub-Saharan Africa to Mediterranean, European and the Maghreb states?

Main Point

  • Barriers to accessing countries of asylum of choice

Readings

Core

  1. Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN), Study on Migration and Asylum in Maghreb Countries: Inadequate Legal and Administrative Frameworks Cannot Guarantee the Protection of Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers, July 2010.
  2. N. Messari and J. van der Klaauw, ‘Counter-Terrorism Measures and Refugee Protection in North Africa’, Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 29, no.4 (2010), pp. 83-103.

Extended

  1. A. Betts, ‘Towards a Mediterranean Solution? Implications for the Region of Origin’ International Journal of Refugee Law,(September-December 2006) vol. 18, no. 3-4, pp. 652-676.
  2. E. Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, ‘Invisible Refugees and/or Overlapping Refugeedom? Protecting Sahwaris and Palestinians Displaced by the 2011 Libyan Uprising’, International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 24, no. 2.