Ayşe Bala Akal

Ayşe Bala Akal is a Contributor on a PRIO project or a publication with a PRIO person, and is otherwise not associated with PRIO.

Email: aysaka@prio.org

Research Interests

EU Migration Policies
Externalization of Refugee Protection
Hostile Environments
Humanitarian Crises
Ethics of Humanitarian Negotiation
Peacebuilding

Ayşe Bala Akal
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Publications
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Report – external series

2024

Toward migration policy coherence. MIGNEX

Towards migration policy coherence

MIGNEX Report

Event

Tuesday, 30 Apr 2024 08:30–10:00 UTC+02

Fieldwork in Ghana, MIGNEX project. . Photo: Jørgen Carling

Cancelled

New Insights on the Causes of Migration

As people navigate challenges and opportunities in their lives, some see migration to another country as their best next step. What is prompting people to make this conclusion?

Report – other

2023

Exploring EU Migration Partnerships: The Cases of Turkey and Nigeria

MIGNEX Background Paper

Journal article

2022

Third Country Processing Regimes and the Violation of the Principle of Non-Refoulement: a Case Study of Australia’s Pacific Solution

Journal article in Journal of International Migration and Integration

PRIO Blogs

Saturday, 2 Oct 2021

Denmark Leading the Race to the Bottom: Hostility as a form of migration control

Since the refugee crisis of 2015, Denmark, the first signatory of the 1951 Refugee Convention, has been at the forefront of the debate around deterrent migration policies. Until recently, Denmark has been recognized as an egalitarian country with an exemplary welfare system. Now, this reputation might have been irrevocably tarnished ...

News

Tuesday, 7 Sep 2021

Offshore Asylum Processing in Clash with International and EU Law

Debate around possible offshore asylum processing by European countries has resurfaced recently, in the wake of Denmark's newly passed legislation, allowing for the relocation of asylum seekers to third countries while their applications are being processed.

Recorded event

Thursday, 30 May 2024 08:30–10:00 UTC+02

Activists demonstrate outside the Embassy of Italy in Tunis on April 17, 2024, against Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's visit to Tunisia. Protesters claim that Tunisian migrants in Italy are often subject to poor treatment and forced deportations. Photo: Hasan Mrad/UCG Group via Getty Images

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The New Pact on Migration and Asylum: Unpacking the EU’s Search for Coherence, Efficiency and Solidarity

In this breakfast seminar, we explore EU’s approach to achieving policy coherence in migration. We will shed light on how the push for more efficient policies, including measures for return and readmission, have shaped this policy making over the years.

Event

Thursday, 25 April 2024

Registration open for MIGNEX Policy Conference in Brussels: What’s next for EU migration and development policy?

On 25 April, the MIGNEX project is convening a high-level Policy Conference on EU migration and development policy. Register your interest now.

Rerouting Europe-bound refugees to the Global South ignores their human rights

European Union-Belarus Border Crisis: Why the Narrative of “Hybrid Warfare” is Dangerous

The 2021 EU-Belarus border crisis was preceded by a rapid deterioration of the already strained European Union (EU)-Belarus relations, in most part due to the Ryanair 4978 incident and the concomitant wide-ranging sanctions imposed by the EU on the authoritarian government of the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who has often been referred by the media as "Europe's last dictator.

Denmark leading the race to the bottom: Hostility as a form of migration control

Popular article in RLI Blog on Refugee Law and Forced Migration

News

Wednesday, 22 May 2024

MIGNEX Insight: What`s next for EU policy on migration and development

In April, MIGNEX convened a major Policy Conference on future EU migration and development policy, in partnership with ODI. See below for a brief summary of our discussions on longstanding and emerging EU policy agendas.

Report – external series

2024

Should the EU give up on readmission agreements as a foreign policy tool?

MIGNEX Policy Brief

News

Tuesday, 31 May 2022

Next Steps toward New Insights on Migration, Development and Policy from MIGNEX

Successful MIGNEX consortium meeting in Istanbul, with inspiring discussion as the project members continue to build new knowledge on migration, development and policy.

PRIO Blogs

Wednesday, 24 Nov 2021

Guarding the border between Poland and Belarus. Egor Eryomov / RIA Novosti / CC-BY-SA 3.0

European Union-Belarus Border Crisis: Why the narrative of “hybrid warfare” is dangerous

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