Youssef and Alan are only two of too many children who have lost their lives on the move in recent years. The International Migration Organization (IOM) reported that 337 children have died while migrating in Africa between 2014–2018, 200 of them died as a result of drowning in the Mediterranean sea. However, this number does not reflect the grim reality: according to IOM, over 70 per cent of people whose deaths were reported in the Central Mediterranean between 2014 and 2018 were never found.
PROTECT partner presentations: The University of the Witwatersrand
Joining the international PROTECT consortium from Wits University are Associate Professor and Director of the African Centre for Migration & Society, Jo Vearey, Dr. Nicholas Maple, and Dr. Kudakwashe Vanyoro.
WP5
The impacts of the GRC and the GMC on civil societies’ recognition of the right to international protection Whilst it is known that CSOs often play a decisive role in the reception and integration of refugees, there is little evidence regarding their attitudes towards the UN notion of international protection and their collaboration networks. CSOs […]
WP4
The impacts of the GRC and the GMC on the governance of international protection: fieldwork studies of governance in practice Global is not synonymous with abstract or unsubstantial, and migration policies are most strongly felt in sensitive locations. These are the targets of WP4`s bottom-up analysis. By carrying out two rounds of fieldworks in migratory […]
WP3
The impacts of the GRC and the GMC on the governance of international protection: institutional architectures of asylum determination The fact that different states deploy correspondingly different institutional architectures and procedures to determine asylum is widely known. WP3 maps these differences in PROTECT’s main settings – the EU, Canada, and South Africa –, including by […]
WP2
The impacts of the GRC and the GMC on the right to international protection: interactions with pre-existing legal frames of protection What is the normative status of innovatory instruments such as the Global Compacts and how do they interact with international and European legal frameworks concerning migration and asylum laws? How can they be better […]