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La apatridia y el problema de la (no) emergencia

¿Cómo ‘emergen’ algunas cuestiones? Es decir, ¿en qué momento durante el proceso de movilización un motivo de queja pasa de ser un ‘problema’ a ser una ‘cuestión’? Esto ocurre cuando los defensores señalan un problema como una infracción de los…

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Positive lessons from the Arab Spring

Forced displacement in today’s world is marked by several characteristics: multiple and unpredictable triggers; overwhelming numbers fleeing in a short period of time; and entire communities destroyed, too often for generations, in a matter of days. Whether across international borders…

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Broadening our perspective

Upholding the human rights and dignity of migrants and people displaced is one of the major challenges of the century. The causes of migration are complex and myriad, and result in no small measure from the phenomenon of globalisation in…

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Migration and revolution

From the outbreak of the popular uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, European media and politicians were preoccupied with the prospect of ‘tidal waves’ of North Africans reaching Europe. These sensational predictions lacked any scientific basis so it…

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Legal protection frameworks

For more than 60 years the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (1951 Refugee Convention) has provided the cornerstone of international protection for displaced persons. It is an important source of protection for many of those fleeing popular…

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