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Five Years after: European Migration and Asylum Policy Still in Crisis

by Sabine Hess, Bernd Kasparek, Jelka Günther | University of Gottingen

Shortly after the 5th anniversary of the events in the summer months of 2015, when the March of Hope of refugees and migrants from Budapest to the Austrian border went down in history as the so-called European “refugee crisis”, the panel (Five Years after: The European Refugee Crisis and the Political Response” /RESPOND final conference) brought together high-level policy makers, practitioners and researchers to discuss…

Spotlight on RESPOND-ers, GermanyRESPOND Horizon2020December 2, 2020Spotlight on RESPONDERS, University of GottingenComment

PRESS RELEASE : Horizon 2020 Project RESPOND Invitation to Press Briefing

RESPOND Press Release No. 111/2020 – 09 November 2020

At the press briefing on November 20, 2020, the central results of the three-year project will be presented and the new migration pact of the EU Commission will be placed in the context of these results. This will be followed by the international final conference "Governing Migration in Europe and Beyond: New Perspectives and Lessons Learned", which aims at the transnational exchange between research, policy and practice.

Spotlight on RESPOND-ers, GermanyRESPOND Horizon2020November 9, 2020Press Release, University of GottingenComment

PRESS RELEASE : Five years later: The Balkan Route of 2015 as an exception

Press Release No. 110/2020 – 04 September 2020

by University of Göttingen | RESPOND

The research report “Border Experiences and Practices of Refugees” by the EU project “Multi-level Governance of Mass Migration in Europe and beyond - RESPOND)” provides a unique documentation for the experiences of refugee-migrants with the borders of Europe. The events in 2015 which was labeled as “European refugee crisis” is still affecting the European publics and politics. Much has been said and discussed about 2015/2016 migratory movements…

Spotlight on RESPOND-ers, GermanyRESPOND Horizon2020September 4, 2020Press Release, University of GottingenComment

What is Frontex doing about illegal pushbacks in Evros?

by Lena Karamanidou, Glasgow Caledonian University | Bernd Kasparek, University of Gottingen

On the 12th May 2020, 102 MEPs asked[1] the European Commission to examine the findings of a joint investigation on the killing of Muhammad Gulzhar on the 4th March in Evros, the area adjoining the Greek-Turkish border. The investigation found that his death was a likely a result of live fire by the Greek forces (Forensic Architecture, 2020; Bellingcat, 2020; Christides, Lüdke and Popp, 2020a). Gulzhar, and many others, were trying to cross into Greece following the announcement of the Turkish government that it ‘opened the border’ on the 27th February 2020.

Spotlight on RESPOND-ers, Greece, Germany, UK, TurkeyRESPOND Horizon2020August 1, 2020Spotlight on RESPONDERS, Glasgow Caledonian University, University of GottingenComment

Hidden infrastructures of the European border regime: the Poros detention facility in Evros, Greece

by Lena Karamanidou, Bernd Kasparek | Glasgow Caledonian University, University of Gottingen

The region of Evros at the Greek-Turkish border was the scene of many changes in the European and Greek border regimes since 2010. The most well-known was the deployment of the Frontex RABIT force in October of that year; while it concluded in 2011, Frontex has had a permanent presence in Evros ever since. In 2011, the then government introduced the ‘Integrated Program for Border Management and Combating Illegal Immigration’ (European Migration Network, 2012), which reflected EU and domestic processes of the Europeanisation of border controls (European Migration Network, 2012; Ilias et al., 2019). The program stipulated a number of measures which impacted the border regime in Evros:

Spotlight on RESPOND-ers, GreeceRESPOND Horizon2020March 8, 2020Spotlight on RESPONDERS, Glasgow Caledonian University, University of GottingenComment

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