Our research
PROTECT consists of 11 Work Packages, which are the building blocks of the project. Each Work Package investigates the impact of the Global Compacts in different ways - such as how they affect citizens' and civil societies’ recognition of the right to international protection, how they interact with existing institutional architectures of asylum determination and legal frameworks such as the 1951 Convention, and how they impact the public discourses on refuge and migration circulating in the media and on social media.
In this video from our Kick-off Conference in Brussels, you can get a short introduction to our research objectives.
PROTECT consists of 11 partner universities in Europe, South Africa, and Canada. We are political scientists, legal scholars, and anthropologists. We have expertise in political theory, legal theory, cleavage theory, public sphere theory, multilevel global governance, and ethnography. In our partner presentation series, you can read more - and watch video presentations - about our researchers, their research interests and role in the project.
Recent publications and popular reads
PROTECT's first three deliverables are publicly available
World Refugee Day Blog Series: The State of International Protection in 2021
Our first Policy Brief: Devising Mechanisms for International Refugee Protection
A World in Refuge: Four migration researchers on global displacement
Recent blogs and news
(Re)Watch our Expert Forums:
In November 2020, the PROTECT project organized three Expert Forums to take stock of the Global Compacts and discuss the current protection needs of refugees and asylum seekers in Europe, Canada, and South Africa. The Forums brought together academics in the field of migration and refugee studies and law – and representatives from organizations such as the UN Refugee Agency, the International Organization for Migration, and Civil Society Organizations such as Lawyers for Human Rights and the European Council on Refugees and Exiles. Watch talks and discussions below:
Featured vlogs and presentations:
On our YouTube channel, you can watch video presentations of our research objectives by our Work Package leaders and stay updated on our latest video blogs, presentations, and comments on current issues. You can also access videos from PROTECT events such as our kick-off conference in Brussels in 2020. Below is a selection of some of the videos featuring PROTECT researchers. Go to our YouTube channel to browse our playlists.
Where are we?
Our partner universities
The PROTECT researchers are based at 11 universities in 7 countries in Europe, and South Africa, and Canada. Click on the pins in the map below to see where in the world our researchers work from.
Our fieldwork sites
Our field researchers conduct ethnographic fieldwork in six migratory hotspots in Spain, France, Greece, Italy, South Africa, and Canada. On the map below, you can navigate our field sites and see the leading researchers.
