Europe’s externalisation and refugee protection

Europe’s externalisation practices and their impact on refugee protection were the subject of an online discussion,  part of a series of events launching The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law (OUP 2021).

 Prof. Cathryn Costello (Hertie School of Governance & Oxford University), a co-editor of the Handbook, moderated the discussion, which  opened with two contributors, Dr. Lilian Tsourdi (Maastricht University & Dutch Research Council) and Prof. Luisa Feline Freier (Universidad del Pacífico), discussing externalisation of protection obligations.  

 Responses by three leading early-career scholars, Dr. Meltem Ineli-Ciger (Suleyman Demirel University), Adel-Naim Reyhani (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights, Austria) and Nasrat Sayed (Maastricht University), and half an hour for Q&A followed 

 The Maastricht Centre for European Law, the European Society of International Law, and Oxford University Press hosted this discussion, based on The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law edited by Profs. Cathryn Costello, Michelle Foster and Jane McAdam. 

The online event  was held on 17 June 2021.