Research on foreigners

During the last few decades, circumstances relating to foreigners in Denmark have given rise to a number of human rights issues.

This concerns newly arrived as well as permanently residing foreigners; important issues are family reunification, naturalisation, confinement, deportation, extradition and exceptional leave to remain (tolerated stay).

These sensitive issues require that the Institute must be informed in depth on the rights and implications of international human rights law with respect to foreigners in order that the Institute may fulfil its advisory and expert function; hence, the need for research-based knowledge.

Research projects

The effect of the restrictions of Danish citizenship legislation for immigrants and their descendants’ acquisition of Danish citizenship.

Contact persons: Eva Ersbøll and Karen Keller

Religious-related issues and challenges at Danish asylum centers.

Contact persons: Marie Juul Petersen and Eva Maria Lassen

This project explores how states cooperate in relation to asylum seekers and refugees at all stages of displacement.

Contact person: Nikolas Feith Tan

Research on the legal standards applicable to the end of protection for Convention refugees and subsidiary protection holders.

Contact person: Nikolas Feith Tan

This project investigates the asylum jurisprudence of the UN treaty bodies.

Contact person: Nikolas Feith Tan

Research publications

2023

Books

  • Faye Jacobsen, et al., Menneskerettigheder i modvind. Konflikter og dilemmaer i dansk politik og lovgivning, : Samfundslitteratur, 2023 (Peer-reviewed).

Book chapters

  • Faye Jacobsen, A., Jensen, S.L.B., Koch, P.B., Petersen, M.J., 'Introduktion: Rettigheder i modvind' in Jacobsen, A.F., Jensen, S.L.B., Koch, P.B., Petersen, M.J., Menneskerettigheder i modvind - Konflikter og dilemmaer i dansk politik og lovgivning, : Samfundslitteratur, 2023, p. 9-16 (Peer-reviewed).

2022

Book chapters

  • Tan, N.F., 'Community Sponsorship of Refugees and Local Governance: Towards Protection Principles' in Moritz Baumgärtel and Sara Miellet , Theorizing Local Migration Law and Governance , : Cambridge University Press, 2022, 252-271 (Peer-reviewed).

Journal articles

  • Cantor, DJ, Tan, NF, Gkliati, M et al, 'Externalisation, Access to Territorial Asylum, and International Law', International Journal of Refugee Law , 34(1), 2022, 120–156 (Non-peer-reviewed).
  • Tan, N.F, 'Visions of the Realistic? Denmark’s L226 and Extraterritorial Asylum', Nordic Journal of International Law, 91(1), 2022, 172-181 (Peer-reviewed).

Popular articles

Reports

2021

Book chapters

  • Ersbøll, E, 'The Danish Turn Towards Dual Citizenship' in Bauböck, R. and Haller, M., Dual Citizenship and Naturalisation, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2021, 157-182 (Peer-reviewed).
  • Tan, N.F., Gammeltoft-Hansen, T., 'Extraterritorial Migration Control and Deterrence' in Cathryn Costello, Michelle Foster and Jane McAdam, Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021 (Peer-reviewed).

Journal articles

  • Tan, N.F., 'Conceptualising Externalisation: Still fit for Purpose?', Forced Migration Review, 68, 2021, 8-9 (Peer-reviewed).