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Önver Cetrez, Alsaleh Maluk, Md Arifuzzaman Rajon | Uppsala University

This report explores the experiences of Syrian migrants in Sweden in the areas of border crossings, refugee protection, reception, integration, and their psychological health conditions. The survey was conducted in Sweden between June 2019 and May 2020 and focuses on Syrian migrants, aged 18 years or older, arriving in Sweden in 2011 and upward. The sample of this survey study included 639 respondents and the questionnaires were filled on paper (n=464) or via a web survey (n=175)…

Karolina Sobczak-Szelc, Justyna Szałańska, Marta Pachocka | Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw

This report is based on a meta-analysis of nine national reports on integration from countries along the so-called Eastern Mediterranean Route. It includes two countries beyond the EU, Turkey and Iraq, which have played an important role as source and transit countries of…

Helena M. Gellersen, Jai P. Shende | University of Cambridge - Imogen S. Davies, Alyssa Ralph | Queen Mary University of London Edited by: Helena M. Gellersen, Naures Atto & Anamay Shetty | University of Cambridge

This report complements the RESPOND research (www.respondmigration.com) on migration and immigrant integration by bringing the focus on a specific case, the trauma recovery of Yazidis with an explicit emphasis on their psychosocial needs. To this respect, it draws data and findings from international guidelines in approaching…

Önver Cetrez, Rajon Arifuzzaman, Ingrid Garosi, Annika Hack, Md Arifuzzaman Rajon | Uppsala University

This report analyses an important aspect of migrant life: psychosocial health among migrant newcomers. To this respect, it draws data and findings from the RESPOND reports in several work packages. This report employs a methodology of transdisciplinary research design, by establishing a strong collaboration beyond discipline-specific approaches, exchanging information and sharing sources. While the general analysis in RESPOND is structured along macro (policy), meso (implementation) and micro (individual) levels, this report focuses primarily on newcomers' experiences at the micro level.

Veronica Federico - University of Florence | Sabine Hess - Göttingen Universiy

The expression ‘refugee protection regime’ is frequently used to indicate both the national and international system of principles, legal norms, administrative procedures and practical processes that should guarantee protection for those who, forcibly removed from their country of origin, seek (and sometimes manage) to obtain protection as asylum applicants first, and as refugees, beneficiaries of subsidiary protection or national forms of temporary protection once their application has been successful. More than 20 million entries can be retrieved when searching online for ‘refugee protection regime’, more than six million when searching for ‘international protection regime’. The very same expressions have been widely used in RESPOND…

Zeynep Sahin-Mencütek | Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul - Soner Barthoma | Uppsala University - N. Ela Gökalp-Aras | Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul

Based on the meta-analysis of thematic country and comparative reports produced in the EU Horizon 2020 RESPOND project, this report seeks to revisit multilevel governance as a theoretical framework in comparative migration research. Focusing on the period of 2011-2018 where the governance of migration has been very much affected by the ‘crisis’ climax, we question the adaptability of multilevel governance in describing main patterns in…

N. Ela Gökalp Aras | Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII)

This report is part of the RESPOND Project’s Work Package 6 (WP6), titled ‘Conflicting Europeanisation’, which focuses on the internal and external dynamics of the European Union’s (EU) migration and asylum policy. In this framework, WP6 examines how the recent migration crisis has affected the future of European integration. It analyses the main parameters of divergence in migration governance and explores how these could impinge on the future course that EU integration takes…

Barbara Jancewicz | University of Warsaw

This report focuses on experiences, situation, integration and attitudes of Syrian forced migrants in Turkey in 2019. It describes results RESPOND’s quantitative study of adult migrants from the Syrian Arab Republic who have left their country of origin in 2011 or later, and have sought protection in Turkey no later than 2017. The 789 interviews were conducted in four Turkish cities: Istanbul (234 interviews), Şanliurfa (205 interviews), Izmir (199 interviews) and…

Andrea Terlizzi | Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies - Claudia Marchese | University of Florence

This report examines the emergence and evolution of conflicting elite discourses over Europeanisation in the context of increasing external migration in Italy. It investigates how major political actors have framed Europeanisation and constructed political claims to justify and legitimise policy decisions. Moreover, it assesses how these claims have circulated in the mass media.

Karin Borevi | Uppsala University - Vasileios Petrogiannis | Södertörn University

This report explores how recent processes of immigration have changed discourses about Europe and migration in Swedish political speeches and newspaper editorials 2011-2018. In the period up to September 2015, political speeches and editorials reflected a dominant humanitarian discourse and Sweden was expected to strive for a better and more…