The session will examine how return and readmission policies affect the lives of young people who have been returned, as well as the families and communities in their countries of return. It will present findings from research coordinated by Red Barnet (Save the Children Denmark) as part of the MORE project and carried out in Albania, Ethiopia, Georgia, Iraq, Niger and Senegal by Save the Children country offices.
Agenda
PICUM and Red Barnet webinar: Real life experiences of EU return policies in countries outside the EU, 16feb 14-15:30u.
In de grensgevangenis op Schiphol (JCS) zitten onschuldige migranten maandenlang gevangen. Met deze wake willen we de gevangen zittende vreemdelingen een teken van meeleven geven, van niet totaal vergeten zijn, van solidariteit. En de samenleving oproepen tot bezinning en ommekeer.
We komen samen op de bezoekers parking van het Justitieel Complex Schiphol, Duizendbladweg 100, 1171 VA Badhoevedorp. Na een welkom en bezinning lopen we met onze spandoeken de 1000 meter rond het gevangeniscomplex, wuiven naar de gevangenen, krijten ‘We 
you’ en maken het in de zuilengang stil in onszelf voor voorbeden. De wake duurt in totaal een uur.
Voor meer info: contact@dorothygemeenschap.nl of noelhuis@antenna.nl
https://noelhuis.nl/schipholwakes/
Online Presentation: How do migrants interpret, mobilise, and contest EU labour migration law? Why does precarious migrant labour persists despite techno-optimist narratives?, 18feb 11-12:30u
This session brings together two perspectives on how institutions and actors co-produce migration and work. The first paper to be presented compares the Netherlands and the UK to examine how automation and digital agriculture intersect with labour regulation, immigration policy, unions, employers, and migrant workers, showing why precarious migrant labour persists despite techno-optimist narratives.
The second paper develops legal agency as a framework for understanding how migrants interpret, mobilise, and contest EU labour migration law. It highlights how law not only structures resources and constraints but also shapes imaginaries and aspirations, calling for a reflective, decolonial legal methodology centered on migrant voices. Together, the papers trace how technology, law, and lived experience jointly configure opportunities, precarity, and pathways of action.
Wat kan Amsterdam doen om ongedocumenteerde mensen te beschermen en te ondersteunen? We vragen dit aan drie (kandidaat)leden van de Gemeenteraad en aan de directeur en oprichter van Here to Support.
FEANTSA and PICUM Webinar: 'Housing and homelessness among undocumented migrants in Europe', 19feb, 14–15:30u
Undocumented people are often excluded from legal protections and social systems, pushed into unsafe and overcrowded housing, and exposed to a high risk of homelessness.
FEANTSA and PICUM wrote a report about access to housing for undocumented people across Europe. The report identifies key barriers to public, private, and emergency housing, and puts forward concrete recommendations to uphold the right to housing regardless of residence status.
Registration: https://feantsa.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=145219ee9a8b8472ebef87252&id=382ba453c7&e=ca8e135fd2
Critical Think Tank Movie Night: Souleymane’s Story, 24feb 17:15u Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen Grotius Building room 1.075
We will be screening Souleymane’s Story, followed by a guided discussion engaging the film from a range of critical perspectives. Our conversation will explore migration law, the gig economy, the limits of humanitarianism, and the global inequalities shaping contemporary migration governance.
Souleymane’s Story follows a Guinean immigrant navigating life in Paris while preparing for a make-or-break asylum interview. The movie weaves together the daily struggle in the gig-economy with the bureaucratic and psychological pressures of asylum procedures, offering an intimate and unsparing portrayal of undocumented migrants.
Please register here.
The book examines the complexities of queer and trans displacement around the world. Over the last forty years, international asylum practices have expanded to include the queer and trans displaced. At least thirty-seven countries now recognize LGBTIQ refugees on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, with some states providing specialized support. Yet amid this expansion, backlash has intensified against refugee protection as well as the hard-earned rights of LGBTIQ people. In this disquieting context, the protection of LGBTIQ refugees remains partial and exclusionary.
Centering personal narratives of LGBTIQ refugees, The Way Out exposes the shortcomings of an international protection regime that is unable to address the harms that drive displacement. Rebecca Buxton and Samuel Ritholtz's analysis of the stakes of queer and trans inclusion in accounts of displacement justice offers a vibrant example of theory brought to life.
https://arc-m.uva.nl/content/events/2026/02/the-way-out-justice-in-the-q...
Elke 1e zondag van de maand staan we stil bij de situatie van vreemdelingen in het detentiecentrum Zeist.
Kom ook, Neem mensen mee, Neem bloemen mee. Neem licht mee.
http://www.wakezeist.nl/97692797
info: 0629025008 en www.wakezeist.nl of fb
Elke eerste zondag van de maand is er een wake bij het Detentiecentrum bij Rotterdam-The Hague Airport (Vliegveld Zestienhoven). Je bent van harte welkom om samen met ons d.m.v. liederen, gedichten, gebeden en verhalen uitdrukking te geven aan je schaamte en onvrede over het Nederlandse vreemdelingenbeleid.
Locatie: Detentiecentrum bij Rotterdam-The Hague Airport (vliegveld Zestienhoven), Portelabaan 7, 3045 AT Rotterdam
https://www.maraprojecten.nl/agenda/wake-bij-detentiecentrum-rotterdam-30/
Intervision meeting: Applications for international protection based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity, 5 March 9:15-13:30u, Brussels
This intervision focuses on applications for international protection based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity (SOGI). We bring together legal expertise, academic research, lived experiences and professional practice. The sessions will create space for exchange between civil society organisations with expertise in supporting SOGI applicants for international protection, and insights drawn from research specifically focused on SOGI-based asylum claims.
The intervision will be held in English. Registrations are open until 1 March 2026.
https://nansen-refugee.be/en/2026/02/04/intervision-applications-for-international-protection-based-on-sexual-orientation-and-or-gender-identity-5-march-2026/
In september 2024 besloot het kabinet Schoof dat de opvang in de LVV (Landelijke Vreemdelingenvoorziening) per 1 januari 2025 moest worden beëindigd. Kort daarop werden verschillende procedures gestart waarin de rechtmatigheid van die beëindiging ter discussie stond, teneinde te voorkomen dat vreemdelingen geen opvang meer zouden krijgen.
Op 26 mei 2025 heeft de vreemdelingenkamer van de rechtbank Amsterdam het beroep van een aantal vreemdelingen gegrond verklaard en de minister opgedragen om de opvang te continueren. Tegen deze uitspaak is in juni 2025 hoger beroep ingesteld bij de Afdeling bestuursrechtspraak van de Raad van State.
In dit seminar zal de stand van zaken worden geschetst en de verschillende invalshoeken van betrokken instanties besproken.
Training Juridische aspecten Preventie Huiselijk Geweld Ongedocumenteerden en Migranten met afhankelijke Status, 13 april 13-16u VW den Haag
De training biedt kennis over de specifieke risico’s en belemmeringen die ongedocumenteerde personen en migranten met een afhankelijke verblijfsstatus ervaren bij het zoeken van hulp, evenals inzicht in relevante wet- en regelgeving. Daarnaast ontvang je praktische handvatten voor het herkennen van signalen en het vervullen van jouw signalerende rol als professional, binnen de mogelijkheden en grenzen van je functie.
Aanmelden kan via deze link.
This year’s Border Criminologies Annual Workshop centres on the theme of care in contexts of border governance, migration control, and state violence. While the politics of health and healthcare have often been treated as secondary to questions of security, detention, and deportation, this workshop brings care to the centre of critical border scholarship. We ask: what does it mean to speak of “care” in spaces of exclusion, control, and punishment? What forms of care can emerge in the act of documentation? How is care mobilised, denied, or weaponised in border regimes, and how might practices of care—both institutional and informal—reconfigure our understandings of state responsibility, ethics, and resistance?
Workshop: The Promise of the Pact? What the EU promised but the Pact on Migration and Asylum does not deliver, 22 May, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Although Member States have to embed the Pact into their own national legislation and practice by June 2026, this workshop critically aims to explore the issues that the EU Pact does not address, but which the EU legislator promised to solve in the Pact. Think of themes like human trafficking, responsibility sharing at the global level, international partnerships, integration, legal migration and more.
From the detention and deportation drives in El Salvador and Tunisia, to the carceral deterrence strategies of Australia and the United Kingdom, to the Trump administration’s family separation policies and the hardline border regimes of Hungary, Italy, and Poland, punitive migration control is increasingly deployed as a means of political legitimation. Across both the Global North and the Global South, authoritarian logics of mobility governance are used to surveil, marginalise, and contain targeted populations—often along racialised, ethnic, and class lines.
This conference explores how crimmigration operates as a tool of governance and political performance in democratic, hybrid, and authoritarian settings.
https://www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2026/07/cinets-2026