Bio
Izabella is human rights and refugee law researcher and advocate, with expertise in EU immigration and asylum policy. She is a consultant at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Migration Unit. Her current research focuses on the question of return (expulsion) at the EU and UN level, including in the framework of the Global Compact for Migration. In that connection, Izabella is also a member of the UN Migration Network Workstreams on return and alternatives to detention and return. Her doctoral research at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (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)
Outputs
- “Implementation of GCM Objective 21 in the UNECE Region: Selective Interpretation of the Return, Readmission, and Reintegration Commitments.” Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) Blog, May 2021.
- “Implementation of GCM Objective 13 in the UNECE Region: Little Added Value of the GCM in Using Immigration Detention as a Last Resort.” Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) Blog, May 2021.
- “The Recast of the EU Returns Directive: Human Rights Lost Again?” Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) Blog, May 2019.
- “GCM Indicators: Objective 21: Cooperate in facilitating safe and dignified return and readmission, as well as sustainable reintegration.” Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) Blog, April 2019.
- “GCM Commentary: Objective 21: Cooperate in facilitating safe and dignified return and readmission, as well as sustainable reintegration.” Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) Blog, November 2018.