This Expert Opinion addressed the legality of the sanction imposed on asylum seekers who used potsand spoons to generate noise during their protest against their living conditions in a reception centrein the Netherlands. The imposed sanction consisted in the withdrawal of their weekly allowance(€12.95/week) during a period of four weeks. This Opinion focuses on the…
This year, the Migration law Clinic (MLC) will be celebrating its tenth anniversary. To this aim, the Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law (ACMRL) organises a symposium at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The objective of the symposium is to reflect on the experience we have built with the MLC. The Symposium will help us identify strengths…
According to Article 14(4)(b) of the Qualification Directive, a refugee may be deprived of protection status if “he or she, having been convicted by a final judgment of a particularly serious crime, constitutes a danger to the community”. This open wording prompted Member States to set widely divergent requirements for the revocation of refugee status,…
[EN, Dutch below] In response to a request sent in by a social worker from an NGO, the students of the EU Citizen Rights Corner published a legal advice regarding the access to shelter and social assistance for EU migrant workers who lost their jobs. The central question of this advice is whether it is…
During its era of colonisation, the Dutch territory expanded east to the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) and West to Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles, colonising Suriname in 1667. Prior to decolonisation, ‘all inhabitants of the Kingdom of the Netherlands were of Dutch nationality’. Suriname declared independence in 1975. Those on the newly independent territory…
In December 2021, the Migration Law Clinic issued an expert opinion concerning cases in which the Raad van Stad (Dutch Council of State) had referred preliminary questions. The cases focus on three people whose applications for international protection are yet to be examined on the merits, since the Dutch Immigration Authorities (IND) decided that Romania…
On 22 June 2022, the Dutch Administrative Jurisdiction Division of the Council of State (Council of State) referred preliminary questions to the Court of Justice EU (CJEU) about the conditions for refusing a refugee status to a person who has committed a ‘particular serious crime’ and constitutes a ‘ danger to the community’ of the…
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