The arrival of large numbers of asylum seekers in Europe in 2015 resulted in the experience of a “crisis”. However, the experienced “crisis” is not a result of the number of refugees (countries like Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey host far more refugees than the EU), but of fundamental shortcomings in the European asylum system. This analysis is developed in two bigger articles (Coercion, Prohibition, and Great Expectations; and The Crisis of European Refugee Law). The main response to “2015” has been an intensification of externalization policies. The legal conseqeunces of this are analyzed in Bifurcation of Mobility, Bifurcation of Law. Externalization of European migration policy before the EU Court of Justice.

Anselm Kiefer: Abendland

Academic publications:

• The geopolitics of knowledge production in international migration law (2021)
• Confronting the Colonial Structure of International Migration Law (lecture, 2021)
• Introduction to the Symposium on COVID-19, Global Mobility and International Law (with E. Tendayi Achiume and Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, 2020)
• The Libyan litigation about the 2017 Memorandum of Understanding between Italy and Libya (2020, with Majd Achour)
• De mondiale mobiliteitsinfrastructuur: de dubbele bodem van de neoliberale legaliteit (2020)
• The New Borders of Empire. European migration policy and domestic passenger transport in Niger (2019)
• European External Migration Funds and Public Procurement Law (2019, with Elies Steyger)
• The Global Mobility Infrastructure: Reconceptualising the Externalisation of Migration Control (2018)
• Bifurcation of Mobility, Bifurcation of Law. Externalization of migration policy before the EU Court of Justice (2018)
• Got the picture? (2017)
• Advice in CJEU Case C-638/16 PPU on prejudicial questions concerning humanitarian visas (2017, with Yussef Al Tamimi and Evelien Brouwer)
• Fact Check: Did ‘Wir Schaffen Das’ Lead to Uncontrolled Mass Migration? (2016)
• Fact Check: Did the EU-Turkey Deal Bring Down the Number of Migrants and of Border Deaths? (2016)
• Minimalist Reflections on Europe, Refugees and Law (2016)
• Dwang, verbod en grootse verwachtingen: over het falende Europese asielbeleid (met Maarten den Heijer en Jorrit Rijpma, 2016)
• The Crisis of European Refugee Law : Lessons from Lake Success (2016, with Hemme Battjes, Evelien Bouwer, Lieneke Slingenberg)
• Is the EU-Turkey refugee and migration deal a treaty? (with Maarten den Heijer, 2016)
• Coercion, Prohibition, and Great Expectations. The continuing failure of the Common European Asylum System (with Maarten den Heijer and Jorrit Rijpma, 2016)
• The NATO pushbacks in the Aegean and international law (2016)

Media publications

• Is Europa een verwende kleuter? Rijke landen negeren het Vluchtelingenverdrag (2021)
• Marathon Man and ‘our European Way of Life’ (2020)
• “I wish there was a treaty we could sign” (2020)
• Het Marathon Man- effect (2020)
• Kabinet inconsistent over minderjarige vluchtelingen uit Griekenland (met Flip Schüller, 2020)
• Het is niet raar dat Turkije de grens met de EU opent (2020, met Martijn Stronks)
• Does the EU violate public procurement law in its external migration policy? (2019, with Elies Steyger)
• Er ligt al een vluchtelingenplan, het moet alleen nog worden uitgevoerd (2019)
• Solidarity with/out Borders (2019, with Eleni Karageorgiou)
• Maak je grens potdicht en je krijgt juist méér migranten (2018)
• The EU Court of Justice refuses to address refugee exclusion (2018)
• Crocodile tears over Aleppo (2016)
• Turkije-deal kan nieuw ‘Srebrenica’ worden (2016)
• Advocating human rights as gorilla behaviour (2016)
• The systemic failure of the Common European Asylum System, as exemplified by the EU-Turkey deal
• Asielzoekers teruggestuurd door de NAVO, mag dat?
• Europe’s Refugee Crisis: A Perfect Storm
• Meer doden en smokkel van mensen (met Tamara Last, 2015)
• EU Border Plan is a Texbook Example of Tunnel Vision
• Geert Wilders’ grandma was a refugee too (with Martijn Stronks, 2015)
• Border control has boosted irregular migration
• Grensbewaking heeft illegale migratie aangejaagd (2015)
• Reception in the region – or dumping?
• Bedoelt u opvang of dumpen in de regio? (2015)