Publications

2025-2026

2024

2023

2022

2018-2021

2015-2017

Osso, B. N. (2026). Art, Agency, and Access: Refugee Experiences and Resistance in the Context of EU’s Migration Management. Journal of Refugee Studies. doi:10.1093/jrs/feaf080

Osso, B. N., Güner, Ç. E., & Margheritis, A. (2025). Migration Crisis or Crisis of Migration Management? Syrian Refugees’ Rights in the EU and Türkiye. RLI Blog on Refugee Law and Forced Migration. https://rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/11/10/migration-crisis-or-crisis-of-migration-management-syrian-refugees-rights-in-the-eu-and-turkiye

Margheritis, A. & Osso, B. N. (2025). Migration Crisis Management Revisited: Perspectives from EUrope and Latin America. Border Criminologies, University of Oxford. https://blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-criminologies-blog/blog-post/2025/10/migration-crisis-management-revisited-perspectives

Osso, B. N. (2025). A Creeping Crisis of Migration Management? Institutional Responses and Implications for “Access” at the EU’s Political, Legal, and Social Borders. Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 23(3) (Special Issue “Migration Crisis with Adjectives”, edited by Ana Margheritis), 367–383. doi:10.1080/15562948.2025.2471288

Osso, B. N. (2025). Exploring Refugee Experiences of Migration Management: A Socio-Legal Inquiry into Visual Artworks and Social Media. Ethnicities, 26(2) (Special Issue “Visual Governance in Migration”, edited by Anna Triandafyllidou and Alice Massari). doi:10.1177/14687968251364350

Osso, B. N. (2024). Undoing the Borders of ‘Access’: A Socio-Legal Inquiry into Migration Management and Refugee Struggles at the European Union’s External Borders. [Doctoral Thesis, Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki]. Helda. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-84-0467-5

Osso, B. N. & van Houtum, H. (2024). ‘Now You See Me’: Refugees Looking Back at the EU’s Border Camp Watch in Lesvos. Geopolitics, 30(2), 730–759. doi:10.1080/14650045.2024.2382469

Osso, B. N. (2024). Narratives of Agency: Understanding the Refugee Experience through Paintings at the EU’s Peripheral Borders. Borders in Globalization Review, 5(2), 11–25. doi:10.18357/bigr52202421463

Osso, B. N. (2024). How Art and Social Media Transformed Refugee Movements in Lesvos. Forced Migration Review, (73), 72–76. https://www.fmreview.org/digital-disruption/nurosso

Osso, B. N. (2024, May). It Takes More Than Two? Doing Transdisciplinary Research on Migration Management and Refugee Struggles. https://www.imiscoe.org. IMISCOE PhD Blog, Special Issue (Summer 2024), 15–19. (Reprinted from IMISCOE PhD Blog, 28 October 2023, https://t.co/UvcilQXEdB).

Osso, B. N. (2023). Unpacking the Safe Third Country Concept in the European Union: B/orders, Legal Spaces, and Asylum in the Shadow of Externalization. International Journal of Refugee Law, 35(3), 272–303. doi:10.1093/ijrl/eead028

Osso, B. N. (2023). Rethinking Rightlessness: The “Right to Have Rights” and the EU-Turkey Statement. On Iki Levha. (ISBN: 9786254326530)

Osso, B. N. (2023). The Border, the Law, the Social: The Spatiotemporality of EU’s Creeping Crisis of Migration Management and the Struggles of ‘Access’. Helsinki Legal Studies Research Paper No. 79. University of Helsinki, Faculty of Law. doi:org/10.2139/ssrn.4641005

Osso, B. N. (2023, Aug). Volatile Borders? Enacting Physical, Legal, and Social Borders within the EU’s Externalization and Internalization Scheme. RLI Blog on Refugee Law and Forced Migration. University of London. https://rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk

Osso, B. N. (2023, Mar). We Cannot Do Socio-Legal Research on Refugees without regard to Their Own Perspectives and Narratives. Journal of Law and Society & Centre of Law and Society blog. https://centreoflawandsociety.co.uk

Osso, B. N. (2022). Law in Context and Beyond: Amalgamating the Analyses of Legal Texts and Artworks into Socio-Legal Research on the Political Agency of Refugees. ECR Workshop on Multidisciplinary Research Methods in EU Law, University of Edinburgh.

Osso, B. N. (2022, Sep). Migration, Law, and the Visual: Unveiling Narratives of Agency in Refugees’ Paintings. IMISCOE PhD Blog, Special Issue (Autumn 2022). https://www.imiscoe.org/docman-docs

Osso, B. N. (2022, Aug). Empirical Socio-Legal Research on the EU’s Externalisation of Asylum: Amalgamating Texts and Refugee Artworks?. European Futures, Edinburgh Europa Institute Blog. https://www.europeanfutures.ed.ac.uk

Osso, B. N. (2022, Jun). Of Borders and Hypocrisy: The Very Thin Line Between Protection and Expulsion. RLI Blog on Refugee Law and Forced Migration. University of London. https://rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk

Osso, B. N. (2022, Jun). Stories that Refugee Artworks Tell: Using the ‘Visual’ in Socio-Legal Research. Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies. Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. https://frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/artwork-stories

Osso, B. N. (2021). Reading Weber and Arendt in the Context of the EU’s Externalization of Migration Management: A Comparison on the Exclusion of Refugees. SLSA 2021 Annual Conference.

Osso, B. N. (2019). Rethinking Rightlessness: The “Right to Have Rights” and the EU-Turkey Statement [Master’s thesis, Tampere University]. Trepo. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-201905151665

Osso, B. N. (2018, May). Towards the CEAS Reform: What Can Arendt Teach Us About the Dublin IV Regulation?. Jus Gentium International. http://jusgentiumint.org

Osso, B. N. (2018, Mar). Bordering, Controlling, Securing: The Quarter Decade of the Refugee ‘Crisis’ and the CEAS Reform. Vaikuttaja: Tampere University. https://blogs.tuni.fi/vaikuttaja

Osso, B. N. (2017). United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Mechanism: The Case of Finland. Jus Gentium International. http://jusgentiumint.org

Osso, B. N. (2017). The Concept of ‘Safe Third Country’ in the EU Acquis: Shifting Burden and Creating Territorial Exclusion? Jus Gentium International. http://jusgentiumint.org

Osso, B. N. (2017, Mar). Refugee Crisis (!). Justitia et Fides, (7). Editorial Cartoons published in Koç University Law School’s magazine.

Osso, B. N. (2017, Jan). Philogelos. Frontier, (11), 9. Illustration published in Koç University’s research magazine. https://perma.cc/4BFA-FD7K

Osso, B. N. (2016). Success or Failure? Assessment of the Readmission Agreement Between the EU and Turkey from the Legal and Political Perspectives. Institute of International Relations Prague, IIR Policy Publications, October 2016. http://iir.cz/en

Osso, B.N. (2015, May). The Freedom of Expression and Caricature in Turkey as a Comparison to Europe. The 4th International Students’ Symposium on Law and Global Issues, Koç University.