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Email: izabellla.majcher@globaldetentionproject.org
Website: https://www.globaldetentionproject.org/izabella-majcher/
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 researcher at the Global Detention Project, which is a research centre based in Geneva, dedicated to the research on immigration detention. Izabella is also a volunteer detention monitor with the Ligue suisse des droits de l'Homme and regularly visits the places of immigration detention. She holds a PhD in international law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva. Her doctoral research focused on the European Union return policy and its compliance with international human rights law.
Publications/recent projects:
- 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), 2019, p. 91-115.
- “The EU Hotspot Approach: Blurred Lines between Restriction on and Deprivation of Liberty.” Border Criminologies, April 2018.
- “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. Cheltenham: Elgar, 2017. (with Mariette Grange)
- “Border Securitization and Containment vs. Fundamental Rights: The European Union’s ‘Refugee Crisis’.” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, March 2017.
- “Human Rights Violations during EU Border Surveillance and Return Operations: Frontex’ Shared Responsibility or Complicity?” Silesian Journal of Legal Studies 7, 2015.