Dr. Izabella Majcher

Email: izabellla.majcher@graduateinstitute.ch

Website: 
Academia research page: https://graduateinstitute.academia.edu/IzabellaMajcher/ 
SSRN author page: http://ssrn.com/author=1699136

Bio:

Izabella is a researcher in international human rights and refugee law, with expertise in EU immigration and asylum policy. She is a senior legal officer at the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE), where she focuses on return and detention. She holds a PhD in international law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva. Her doctoral research addressed the EU return policy and was published under the title “The European Union Returns Directive and its Compatibility with International Human Rights Law” (Brill/ Nijhoff, 2019).

Publications/recent projects:

• "Evaluation of the Implementation of the Return Directive." In The Return Directive 2008/115/EC: European Implementation Assessment. European Parliamentary Research Service, 2020 (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document.html?reference=EPRS_STU(2020)64284)

• Who Can Be Sustainably Reintegrated After Return?: Using post-return monitoring for rights-based return policies. United Nations University, Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies, Policy Brief No.3, 2020 (with J. Alpes) (http://cris.unu.edu/PB20-3)

• “The Effectiveness of the EU Return Policy at All Costs: The Punitive Use of Administrative Pre-removal Detention.” In Causes and Consequences of Migrant Criminalization, edited by N. Kogovšek Šalamon, 109-129. Springer, 2020 (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-43732-9_6)

• Immigration Detention in the European Union: In the Shadow of the “Crisis.” Springer, 2020 (with M. Flynn and M. Grange) (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030338688)

• The European Union Returns Directive and its Compatibility with International Human Rights Law. Brill/Nijhoff, 2019 (https://brill.com/view/title/36161?language=en)

• "Immigration Detention under the Global Compacts in the Light of Refugee and Human Rights Standards." International Migration 57(6), 91-114, 2019 (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/imig.12641)

• “The EU Hotspot Approach: Blurred Lines between Restriction on and Deprivation of Liberty.” Border Criminologies, 2018 (https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/centre-criminology/centreborder-criminologies/blog/2018/04/eu-hotspot)

• “Immigration detention under international human rights law: the legal framework and the litmus test of human rights treaty bodies monitoring.” In Challenging Immigration Detention: Academics, Activists and Policy-makers, edited by M. J. Flynn and F. B. Flynn, 265-292. Elgar, 2017 (with M. Grange) (https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/challenging-immigration-detention-9781785368059.html)