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Dublin III Regulation No 604/2013
EUROPA Established the criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an application for international protection lodged in one of the Member States by a third-country national or a stateless person
EDAL: European Database of Asylum Law
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EDAL summarises relevant case law in English and the Member State’s national language and provides a link to, and/or pdf. of, the full text of the original judgment where available.

EDAL was created through funding from European Commission’s European Refugee Fund. Its creation was coordinated by the Irish Refugee Council in partnership with the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE); the Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC) also joined as partners during the second phase of development. EDAL’s objective is to strengthen the development of harmonized standards of protection within the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) and, in particular, to increase consistency and quality in the interpretation and application of CEAS legislation.

Currently the database is managed by ECRE and is being provided with financial support from the Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Programme of the European Union.

The primary audience is decision-makers at all levels, practitioners, academics and policy makers. EDAL aims to foster deeper cooperation amongst decision-makers and practitioners in Member States. The database contains case summaries from the following Member States:

Austria
Belgium
The Czech Republic
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
The Netherlands
Poland
Slovenia
Slovakia
Spain
Sweden
UK
EU Justice, freedom and security
Official website.The European Union's area of freedom, security and justice was created to ensure the free movement of persons and to offer a high level of protection to citizens. It covers policy areas that range from the management of the European Union’s external borders to judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters and police cooperation. It also includes asylum and immigration policies and the fight against crime (terrorism, organised crime, cybercrime, sexual exploitation of children, trafficking in human beings, illegal drugs, etc.).
European Commission: DG Home Affairs Migration and asylum
Official website. Includes summary of stages (with links to key texts) in the movement towards the Common European Asylum System
EASO: European Asylum Support Office
Official website. EASO is an agency of the European Union set up by Regulation (EU) 439/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council
EMN: European Migration Network
Official website . "The European Migration Network (EMN) plays a key role in providing policymakers and the wider public with up-to-date, objective, reliable and comparable information on migration and asylum."
FRA: Asylum, migration & borders
Official website. FRA, the European Agency for fundamental rights, seeks to defend the rights of third-country nationals entering or staying in the EU.
FRONTEX: European Union external boarders agency
Official website.
AIDA: Asylum Information Database
Free resource. Maintained by the European Council on Refugees and Exiles with 2 aims 1) to offer independent, useful, and up-to date information to the media, researchers, advocates, legal practitioners and the public on asylum practice in EU Member States in particular with regard to asylum procedures, reception conditions and detention and 2) to provide advocacy tools to the civil society, at EU and national level as regards the transposition of EU asylum directives adopted as part of the second phase of harmonisation of EU asylum policy and the establishment of a Common European Asylum System.
ECRE:European Council on Refugees & Exiles
Official website "ECRE is a pan-European Alliance of refugee-assisting non-governmental organisations ...

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For subject searches in SOLO try these terms

Asylum, Right of -- European Union countries

Emigration and immigration law -- European Union countries

Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- European Union countries

European Union countries Emigration and immigration Government policy

(For earlier works you may have to substitute European Economic Community countries)

The current collection of books with shelfmarks beginning Euro Comm are shelved on level 3, one floor up from the entrance level.

EU Immigration and Asylum Law: a commentary by Kay Hailbronner (Editor); Daniel Thym (Editor)
Call Number: Euro Comm 510 H151c2
ISBN: 1849468613
Publication Date: (2nd edn 2016)
Accessing Asylum in Europe: extraterritorial border controls and refugee rights under EU law by Violeta Moreno-Lax
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
ISBN: 9780198701002
Publication Date: 2017
Print copy in Law Library at Euro Comm 510 M843.5a. There is another print copy in the Social Science Library KJE5202.MOR 2017
The Global Reach of European Refugee Law by Hélène Lambert (Editor); Jane McAdam (Editor); Maryellen Fullerton (Editor)
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
ISBN: 1107041759
Publication Date: 2013
Print copy is at Euro Comm 510 L221.9a if preferred
EU Migration Law: legal complexities and political rationales by Loïc Azoulai (Editor); Karin de Vries (Editor)
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
ISBN: 019870853X
Publication Date: 2014
Print copy is at Euro Comm 510 A996.5b if preferred