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Felix Bender

Felix Bender is a postdoctoral fellow at KU Leuven. He worked at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity and at Central European University. He held visiting positions at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, the University of Amsterdam and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC.

Apprehend, detain, deport—towards a securitised EU?

Felix Bender

Pushbacks at Europe’s borders have not been compliant with the Refugee Convention. Nor would internal ones.

Against ‘weaponised migration’

Felix Bender

Using stigmatising language to describe the crisis at the Poland-Belarus border is wrong and plays into Lukashenka’s hands.

Recruiting irregular migrants to … fight irregular migration

Magdalena Ulceluse and Felix Bender

The EU directive sanctioning employers for utilising irregular migrants is putting migrant workers who might complain in a Kafkaesque scenario.