‘Hoge sterfte onder bootvluchtelingen uit Afrika dwingt tot herbezinning’ Interview, Het Financieele Dagblad 7 juni 2014.
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Sexual identity, normativity and asylum (2013)
[wr_row][wr_column]This article gives an overview of legal articles on LGBT asylum issues. It argues for a non-essentialist understanding of sexual identity when advocating asylum for persecuted LGBT people.
‘Sexual identity, normativity and asylum‘, in Thomas Spijkerboer (Ed.), Fleeing Homophobia. Sexual orientation, gender identity and asylum, London & New York: Routledge 2013, p. 217-238[/wr_column]][wr_text]This article gives an overview of legal articles on LGBT asylum issues. It argues for a non-essentialist understanding of sexual identity when advocating asylum for persecuted LGBT people.
‘Sexual identity, normativity and asylum‘, in Thomas Spijkerboer (Ed.), Fleeing Homophobia. Sexual orientation, gender identity and asylum, London & New York: Routledge 2013, p. 217-238[/wr_text][/wr_column][/wr_row]
Research project 2013-2018: Border Policies and Sovereignty. Human rights and the right to life of irregular migrants
At the Vrije Universiteit, we are carrying out a research project about changes in European border policies and migrant deaths since 1990. This document is the research proposal that was funded by NWO (the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research).
Border Policies and Sovereignty. Human rights and the right to life of irregular migrants
De draaideurkast. Homoseksuele en transgender asielzoekers, discretie en strafbaarstelling (2012, met Sabine Jansen)
Say it loud – en vlug een beetje. Homoseksuele en transgender asielzoekers, laat uit de kast komen en geloofwaardigheid (2012, met Sabine Jansen)
Voor de poorten van de stad. Antigone en de asielzoekers (2013)
Voor de poorten van de stad. Antigone en de asielzoekers, De Groene Amsterdammer 7 maart 2013, p. 38-39
Rechtsherstel voor Somaliërs (2014)
De Nederlandse rechter in het vreemdelingenrecht (2014)
De Nederlandse rechter in het vreemdelingenrecht, Sdu, Den Haag 2014.
Counting. The Human Costs of Border Control (Documentary by Pieter Boeles, 2014)
An impressive and moving short documentary about a search for traces of the fate of boat refugees in public registers. Nobody knows how many African boat refugees drowned during their attempt to reach Europe. A team of researchers from VU University Amsterdam investigated the death certificates in all the civil registries along the Mediterranean coast in order to trace the anonymous deceased and bring them back to public memory in a comprehensive data-base. In the documentary, two researchers are followed during their first visit to Malta. They realize that their project is about human dignity.
Analysing European Case-Law on Migration. Options for Critical Lawyers (2014)
This chapter addresses three ways in which lawyers can try to criticize the case law of European courts. The first is to re-analyse case law so as to expose its internal inconsistencies, which opens the possibility of arguing for a more consistent position. The European Court of Human Rights’ (ECtHR) case-law on judicial review in asylum cases is used as an example. The second strategy is to contrast the case-law as it stands to an alternative line of case-law which is just as valid, and thus open up the possibility of change. The European Court of Justice’s case-law on the family unity of EU citizens is used as an example. The third strategy is to bring into view an issue that has remained in the shadows as this may affect the outcome of a legal argument. The ECtHR’s case law on HIV positive aliens and Article 3 ECHRis used as an example.
Analysing European Case-Law on Migration. Options for Critical Lawyers, in Loïc Azoulai and Karin de Vries (eds): EU Migration Law: Legal Complexities and Political Rationales. The Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law, VOLUME XXI/2, Oxford University Press 2014, p. 188-218