Marie Walter-Franke is an affiliate fellow at the Jacques Delors Institut – Berlin and a doctoral fellow at the Free University of Berlin with a scholarship from the German-Israeli Program “Human Rights under Pressure.” Her research focuses on biases and stereotypes in E.U. asylum and migration policies. Follow her on Twitter @MWalterFranke. https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/contributor/marie-walter-franke/rss en Laws & Policy Solutions Fri, 10 Nov 2017 13:42:09 +0000 Shani Bar-Tuvia, Marie Walter-Franke https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/11/10/why-some-e-u-states-want-hotspots-in-the-sahel https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/11/10/why-some-e-u-states-want-hotspots-in-the-sahel The case for offshore processing of asylum seekers is made in humanitarian language but it conceals another agenda, say researchers Marie Walter-Franke and Shani Bar-Tuvia. States are seeking to trade legal obligations for humanitarian gestures.