Dr. Izabella Majcher

Bio

Izabella is a researcher and advocate in international human rights and refugee law, with expertise in EU immigration and asylum policy. Her current research focuses on the question of return (expulsion) at the EU and UN level. She is a legal adviser at the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) and a visiting fellow at the Global Migration Centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID).  Her doctoral research at the IHEID 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)