Z'Flucht. Zeitschrift für Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung

Through an extensive interpretation of the collective expulsion prohibition, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has for decades compensated for the lack of procedural rights in the European Convention on Human Rights in the expulsion and...

While socio-legal literature widely discusses the role of emotions in courts, refugee studies have yet to embrace a perspective that goes beyond viewing emotions as dichotomous to reason and objectivity. This paper fills this gap by using a...

Based on the global (Refugee) Law Clinic movement, this article reflects on the origin, impact, opportunities, and challenges of Clinical Legal Education in migration law in Germany. It examines to what extent Refugee Law Clinics not only strengthen...

The case-law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) can affect the European Union’s (EU) policymaking processes in the area of asylum policy. At the same time, ECtHR judgements are shaped by contextual factors, which may raise or hamper a...

The implementation practices of ‹who is a refugee› vary widely in their approaches and outcomes. Scholarship in legal anthropology, sociolegal studies and comparative political science aims to understand and to explain the different (and often...