ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Aleksandra Jolkina

Dr Aleksandra Jolkina is a researcher in EU free movement, migration and asylum law. She holds a PhD in law from Queen Mary University of London and has taught EU law at LSE. Her research currently focuses on the position of EU citizens and their family members in the UK, COVID-based mobility restrictions and the EU-Belarus border crisis.

POSTS BY Aleksandra Jolkina

02 Mai 2022

Aleksandra Jolkina

Trapped in a Lawless Zone

The treatment of asylum-seekers – predominantly from the Middle East – crossing the Latvian border from Belarus is in sharp contrast with the recent decision of the Latvian government to support at least 23,000 people who have arrived in the country from war-torn Ukraine. Those who have paid the highest price for this policy are people who have been forced to remain in the forest for months under inhuman conditions just to be ultimately returned to their country of origin, an experience that has left most of them severely traumatised. Continue reading >>

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