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Dr Maja Grundler @majagrundler.bsky.social · 29d

📕🚀 Book launch!

I'll be discussing my book Irregular Migration, Refugee Status and the Law with Professor Elspeth Guild and Dr Liza Schuster, chaired by @gillkane.bsky.social!

15 October, 17:00, online and in-person in London, sign up here:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/irregular-...

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Dr Maja Grundler @majagrundler.bsky.social · Aug 29

Thank you!

Dr Maja Grundler @majagrundler.bsky.social · Aug 29

It’s publication day!
My monograph 'Irregular Migration, Refugee Status and the Law: Protection from Dangerous Migratory Journeys' is out with @routledgebooks.bsky.social: www.routledge.com/Irregular-Mi...

If you’re interested, please consider asking your institution’s library to purchase a copy.

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Dr Maja Grundler @majagrundler.bsky.social · Jul 9

I am looking for UK immigration law practitioners to fill in a short survey about their engagement with legal academic work. There is also an option to take part in an interview at the end. Please do consider taking part and share with your networks:

app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...

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Dr Maja Grundler @majagrundler.bsky.social · Jul 9

Thank you!

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Dr Maja Grundler @majagrundler.bsky.social · Jul 9

Thank you!!

Dr Maja Grundler @majagrundler.bsky.social · Jul 9

Would you mind sharing this? (Thank you!)
@ilpaimmigration.bsky.social
@colinyeo.bsky.social (thanks for sharing on LinkedIn!:)
@squeakinglyjen.bsky.social
@danielsohege.bsky.social
@alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social
@stevepeers.bsky.social
@rli-sas.bsky.social

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Dr Maja Grundler @majagrundler.bsky.social · Jul 9

I am looking for UK immigration law practitioners to fill in a short survey about their engagement with legal academic work. There is also an option to take part in an interview at the end. Please do consider taking part and share with your networks:

app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...

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Dr Maja Grundler @majagrundler.bsky.social · Jun 13

My thoughts on last week's #Kinsa judgment, now on the @rli-sas.bsky.social blog: rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/06/12/t...

A powerful challenge to the criminalisation of facilitation through Charter rights, but a narrow exception to criminalisation which the Commission seems to plan to introduce anyway.

The CJEU’s Judgment in Kinsa: A Big Win – But for Whom? - Refugee Law Initiative Blog

Blog post by Dr Maja Grundler, Northumbria Law School* The EU’s anti-smuggling legislation – the Facilitators’ Package (comprised of Council Directive 2002/90/EC, aka the Facilitation Directive, and t...

rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk

Dr Maja Grundler @majagrundler.bsky.social · Jun 4

Thanks to @rli-sas.bsky.social for an amazing #RLIconf2025!

I presented my paper on 'Vulnerability Re-Trafficking and Irregular Re-Migration in the Context of Climate Change and Disasters: A Sliding Scale of Risk' and learned so much from other speakers.

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Kate @katesheill.bsky.social · Jun 4

Call for inputs to the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants on externalization of migration - measures to prevent migration, administrative processes beyond national borders and return through the involvement of third countries. Deadline 10 June, info at www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for...

OHCHR | Call for inputs: Externalization of Migration and the Impact on the Human Rights of Migrants

BackgroundIn recent years, externalisation has become a defining feature of migration, asylum, and border policies, particularly among high-income destination countries. This umbrella term refers to m...

www.ohchr.org

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · Jun 4

The CJEU has ruled that Member States cannot prosecute asylum-seeking mothers who travelled on false documents with their children as people smugglers - in a judgment with broader implications for the criminalisation of immigration.

My analysis: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-ca...

A candle in the dark: the CJEU rules against criminalising parents for smuggling their children

Professor Steve Peers , Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit : Bologna, taken by Ввласенко , via Wikimedia Commons Introd...

eulawanalysis.blogspot.com

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Dr Maja Grundler @majagrundler.bsky.social · Jun 2

Brilliant keynote by @myrmek.bsky.social at #RLIconf25, discussing how ethnographic methods can inform, inspire and improve refugee law research

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Dr Maja Grundler @majagrundler.bsky.social · May 30

Really enjoyed this conference, esp Audrey Macklin’s keynote; @janinapescinski.bsky.social's talk on over-research; @nikkibusu.bsky.social & Sophie Cartwright (@jrsuk.bsky.social)‬ speaking on disability & displacement; and presenting my work in progress on legal academic-practitioner collaboration

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Dr Maja Grundler @majagrundler.bsky.social · May 15

Really looking forward to reading all of the fantastic contributions in this book! I've looked at some of them already and they are excellent. A big thank you to the editors for including my chapter ('Who Is the “Vulnerable” Victim? Trafficked and Smuggled Persons as Victims of Crime under EU Law')!

Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi @liliantsourdi.bsky.social · May 15

Our Intertwining #criminal justice & #migration control book v/N. Vavoula & V. Mitsilegas out in Aug! www.routledge.com/Intertwining.... Check out @ssrn.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @profjacob.bsky.social @stevepeers.bsky.social @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social @majagrundler.bsky.social

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · May 12

Shameful bullish. What's done incalculable damage is a decade of pernicious falsehoods about immigration, while people who should know better refuse to counter the lies of the increasingly normalised far right.

Let's tackle those lies:

Keir Starmer claims soaring immigration has done incalculable damage to UK economically and politically

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Asylos @asylos.bsky.social · May 14

Recognising #LivedExperience as #Expertise: a #Workshop on Inclusion in Research on Movement and Exploitation.

📅 June 6th, 10am – 4pm BST (online)

+infos & register here ➡️ asylos.org/recognising-...

Co-hosted with the Human Trafficking Research Network (HTRN) & support from Clifford Chance.

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Aoife O'Donoghue @aoifemod.bsky.social · May 7

A group of us law academics put together a letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers UK Supreme Court ruling & we are asking other *UK based law folk* (academic activist practitioner etc) to sign

More details 👇

#transrights #trans #transgender #lawsky #academicsky #UKlaw

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A Law Letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers

A coalition of legal academics have drafted a letter setting out our support for trans rights and our concerns about the FWS v Scottish Ministers UKSC ruling. We are opening it up for signature to ev...

docs.google.com

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Refugee Law Initiative @rli-sas.bsky.social · May 6

Register by 15 May for the forthcoming RLI ANNUAL CONFERENCE 👇 👇 👇 Featuring keynote speakers Professor Maja Janmyr, Dr Katy Long and Dr Jeff Crisp.

"Refugee Law and Forced Migration Studies: Debates, Interactions and Futures’’ 2 - 4 June 2025, Senate House, London

rli.sas.ac.uk/rli-annual-c...

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Dr Maja Grundler @majagrundler.bsky.social · Mar 25

The SI is accessible to subscribers here: www.bloomsburyprofessionalonline.com/view/journal...

We are going to be able to make the SI freely accessible in six months' time.

www.bloomsburyprofessionalonline.com

Dr Maja Grundler @majagrundler.bsky.social · Mar 25

My article ‘Trafficked Persons as Convention Refugees: Opportunities and Obstacles in Asylum Claims based on a Risk of (Re-)Trafficking’ highlights protection gaps for persons at risk of (re)trafficking and the potential of these cases to extend protection to additional claimants

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Dr Maja Grundler @majagrundler.bsky.social · Mar 25

Malak Benslama-Dabdoub considers ‘The Value of Statelessness Legal Protection when Representing Stateless Persons Seeking Sanctuary in the UK’, arguing that practitioners should consider the value of statelessness protection in cases where refugee status is difficult or impossible to secure

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Dr Maja Grundler @majagrundler.bsky.social · Mar 25

In ‘Family Reunification Claims of Refugee Children in the UK: Exploring the Potential of Article 8 ECHR Interpreted in Line with the Best Interests of the Child’, @yuliaioffe.bsky.social argues that Art 8 ECHR requires the articulation of a distinctive child-centred approach to family reunification

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Dr Maja Grundler @majagrundler.bsky.social · Mar 25

The SI then continues with three contributions from legal academics who have identified aspects of their work which may be of relevance to UK practitioners and who have adapted their research to the UK domestic context, with the aim of translating research findings into practical suggestions

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Dr Maja Grundler @majagrundler.bsky.social · Mar 25

@colinyeo.bsky.social explores ‘The Missing Community of Immigration Law’ in the UK, arguing that establishing such a community would aid the clarity, predictability and development of UK immigration law, giving an example of an area of law where academic-practitioner collaboration would be valuable

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