DIIS researches internally displaced persons, international migrants and refugees, and the industries and infrastructures that enable, hinder or redirect mobility.
For the last seven years Israel has received over 60,000 new asylum seekers coming from Sub-Saharan Africa. In response, Israel has criminalized refugees, preventing Africans entering from Sinai from receiving international protection.
In the midst of a heated debate about the legal and diplomatic consequences of Denmark's decision to reintroduce border control, it is easy to forget that these consequences could have been prevented all together, if Denmark had not based its decision on a simplified understanding of the border.