“Pushbacks” as Euphemism

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Niamh is a Ph.D. researcher at the Irish Centre for Human Rights at NUI Galway and recipient of the NUI Dr. Peter Sutherland Travelling Studentship in European Studies. Her research focuses on human rights, migration, and refugee law, particularly on access to asylum procedures and border violence in the Aegean. She is also a legal researcher with the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN).

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“Pushbacks” as Euphemism

April 14, 2021

Niamh Keady-Tabbal

Itamar Mann

Late in March, the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, declared that it identified “hundreds” of migrant pushbacks from Greece. These have allegedly occurred in the Aegean and in the Evros region – the Northern land border between Greece and Turkey. While Greece continues to deny these allegations, it has now become abundantly clear that this is mere gaslighting.