Blog Entry

Luc Leboeuf, VULNER scientific coordinator, contributed the blog entry "Legal Pathways to Protection: Towards a Common and Comprehensive Approach?" as part of a new blog series from the Odysseus academic network on the EU 'New Migration and Asylum Pact', coordinated by Daniel Thym.

Five years after the peak of the 2015 policy crisis, the European Commission launched a New Pact on Migration and Asylum.

This blogpost highlights how the New Pact contributes to the development of a common and comprehensive approach to legal pathways to protection, beyond resettlement. It argues that there is “soft” harmonisation at play, and seeks to identify the main driving policy logics and tensions behind the harmonisation process, including how they are likely to impact forthcoming developments in the field.

Read the full blog entry here.