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Pauline Endres de Oliveira
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Pauline Endres de Oliveira

Pauline Endres de Oliveira is a Senior Legal Researcher at the University of Giessen, where she collaborates with an interdisciplinary research group on the migration–human rights nexus (PROTECT Project). She holds a PhD in law and teaches refugee and migration law at Humboldt University Berlin. She has acted as a consultant for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and was a member of the board of directors of Amnesty International Germany from 2017 to 2019.

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Reports
February 2023
External Processing: A Tool to Expand Protection or Further Restrict Territorial Asylum?
By  Pauline Endres de Oliveira and Nikolas Feith Tan

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Reports
February 2023

External Processing: A Tool to Expand Protection or Further Restrict Territorial Asylum?

As asylum systems in many countries have come under considerable strain in recent years, there has been renewed interest in external processing—that is, conducting part or all of an asylum procedure outside a destination country’s territory. Some countries have pursued this to deter spontaneous arrivals, but as this report explores, others are using various external processing models to expand access to protection.