Hollow Legality: How Offshore Asylum Processing Empties Europe’s Promise of Protection

By Emaan Khurram (Pakistan) For much of the post-war period, Europe presented asylum as a moral and legal commitment: a promise that those fleeing persecution would be heard, assessed, and protected. In recent years, however, that promise appears to have been subtly recalibrated. Rather than asking how protection can be strengthened, policy debates increasingly focus … Continue reading Hollow Legality: How Offshore Asylum Processing Empties Europe’s Promise of Protection