The Queen Mary University of London is one of PROTECT’s two UK-based teams. The team is led by the distinguished EU law and migration expert Elspeth Guild, joining her are the aspiring law scholar Kathryn Allinson and Nicolette Busuttil. Together, the team has followed the processes surrounding the UN Compacts on Migrants and Refugees closely and explored their potential in advancing the international protection system.
PROTECT podcast: Securing the rights of refugees and migrants during Corona lockdown – is the intern
In this podcast, Guild explains important principles of international human rights law, and how states seem to be breaking their obligations to the UN Refugee Convention in their handling of refugees and migrants during the worldwide Corona lockdown.
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 […]
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 […]