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.
PROTECT in the media
Norway: Admitting asylum-seekers or paying other countries to do so ? EU!RADIO, a dynamic not-for-profit radio station adopting a resolutely European perspective, as part of their weekly ‘Ideas on Europe’ editorial by UACES, the University Association for European Studies, has welcomed Pierre Van Wolleghem, Executive Scientific Coordinator of PROTECT to talk about the future of international refugee […]
PROTECT represented at the first Global Refugee Forum
In December 2019, the project leader of PROTECT Hakan G. Sicakkan participated in a first gathering in Geneva for the UN High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR) Global Academic Network. The gathering took place as part of the UN’s Global Refugee Forum and coincided with the first year anniversary of the two UN Global Compacts on […]
Work Packages
Every H2020 project is composed of several work packages (WPs), or clusters of activities, which converge toward a common goal. PROTECT consists of 11 WPs, all of them contributing to its scientific quality and ethical integrity, and ultimately concurring to understanding and safeguarding the right to international protection. WP1: Developing theoretical, conceptual and methodological approaches […]
What are we up to? The UN’s 1951 Refugee Convention and the EU’s Common European Asylum Policy lack instruments to facilitate inter-state collaboration during refugee crises. Neither specifies how state policies and governance should be devised to achieve this goal despite the diversity of state policies being a major reason for the decay of international […]