LIMES MAASTRICHT’s Post

PhD defended! Grateful for the journey and the lessons learned.  Full dissertation available at: https://lnkd.in/dg7-_bA5

Last Thursday, I succesfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation 'Shaping Participation - Children's and Teachers' Language Practices in Linguistically Diverse Early Childhood Education and Care' at Maastricht University (Cotutelle with University of Münster). Thanks to my supervisors Leonie Cornips, Gunther De Vogelaer and Christine Arnold for all the support along the way, to the opposition for engaging with my work, and of course to all the children and teachers who participated in my research. I had a wonderful time celebrating this milestone!

Inspirerend interview in De Limburger met Marie Rickert over #meertaligheid in de #kinderopvang: "Hoe geef je als tweejarige aan dat je dorst hebt of verschoond wilt worden?"

📢 Event Alert! Join us at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel on January 26 or online for discussion on #fundamentalrights #accountability in the context of #Frontex coordinated operations. This #hybrid event will unpack the intricacies of recent developments surrounding Frontex’s legal accountability, examining a line of cases where the Court of Justice of the EU found no liability of the Agency for alleged fundamental rights violations taking place during joint operations with Member States. The discussion will extend beyond legal redress mechanisms to explore the potential of more flexible accountability structures such as the Frontex’s Consultative Forum, its Fundamental Rights Officer (FRO), and external watchdog institutions like the European Ombudsman in enhancing Frontex's fundamental rights accountability. The event, organized together with Merijn Chamon, Sarah Tas, and Mariolina Eliantonio will see a stellar line up of both academics and practitioners working on Frontex accountability structures. Don't forget to RSVP here 👉 : https://lnkd.in/ewPTHgUH Joyce De Coninck Melanie Fink Galina Cornelisse Claudia Bonamini Jonas Grimheden Tamás Molnár

Two weeks ago, commenting on externalisation practices in a commentary for the European Policy Centre, I noted that offshore processing was one of the few migration control mechanisms that had never been implemented in the EU. One week later, the Italian government announced to have reached agreement with Albania to process asylum applications there under "Italian and European legislation". Yesterday, the European Commission stated in a press release that the Protocol does not violate EU law, as it falls outside its scope of application, and that international protection claims would be examined under national law only. In this piece, I maintain the opposite, arguing that if asylum applicants get to the Italian territory / border, this would trigger the applicability of the Asylum Procedure Directive, and they would acquire the right to stay in the Member State (either in the territory, or at the border / transit zones) for at least the duration of the first instance procedure, precluding a transfer to a third country. If this is not the case, and the asylum application is made in Albania, the Italian authorities would be allowed to carry out an extraterritorial processing outside the EU legal framework, but they would not be able to grant international protection, being it a EU uniform status. For this reason, both successful and unsuccessful asylum applicants would in my view still have a right to access the asylum procedure in a EU Member State after the processing in Albania. To give credit where is due, I would have probably not published this without intense discussions with friends & colleagues in the last few days, including Eleonora Celoria Eleonora Testi Daniela Vitiello Tamás Molnár Riccardo Viviani & Andrea Longo ! Check it out below! 👇 #externalisation #asylum #europeanunion #italy #albania

📣 NEW PUBLICATION | EU-Tunisia like UK-Rwanda? Not quite. But would the New Pact asylum reforms change that? As highlighted by Andreina De Leo in her latest European Policy Centre Commentary, "while the EU would be unable to conclude a UK-Rwanda-style agreement, the pressure for reforms, as well as the recent Memorandum of Understanding with Tunisia, signal the threat of diminished human rights protections and safeguards." Read her Commentary here 👇 https://lnkd.in/eKuFhQFE