UNEASY MISSION OF NGOS IN PROTECTION AND RECEPTION OF ASYLUM SEEKERS AND REFUGEES IN POLAND. REFLECTIONS FROM FIELDWORK
UNEASY MISSION OF NGOS IN PROTECTION AND RECEPTION OF ASYLUM SEEKERS AND REFUGEES IN POLAND. REFLECTIONS FROM FIELDWORK

by Justyna Szałańska | Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw

Since 2015, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) active in helping asylum seekers and refugees have been facing difficult times in Poland. Firstly, it stems from the heated atmosphere around increased migration to Europe beginning in the mentioned year. Secondly, and more significantly, it is an effect of the government withholding the funds from the European Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) in late 2015 until the new strategy of migration policy of Poland is adopted (see more: Pędziwiatr 2019)[1]. In 2017, the government decided to transfer the control over funds from AMIF to voivodship governors.

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Migrants and healthcare. Food for thoughts from Ginevra Cerrina Feroni’s latest publication
Migrants and healthcare. Food for thoughts from Ginevra Cerrina Feroni’s latest publication

by Andrea Terlizzi | University of Florence

The book Health systems and immigration: A comparative analysis edited by Ginevra Cerrina Feroni investigates how health systems in Europe function in relation to the migration phenomenon. The study includes countries adopting different models of health systems: Anglo-Saxon (United Kingdom), Bismarckian (France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the Netherlands), Southern European (Italy, Spain, and Greece) Eastern European (Hungary), and Scandinavian (Sweden and Denmark). In terms of financing, these countries essentially belong to the Beveridgean national health service (NHS) and the Bismarckian social health insurance (SHI) types of system.

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PRESS RELEASE: The “Hotspot” approach is NOT the solution!
PRESS RELEASE: The “Hotspot” approach is NOT the solution!

by RESPOND Project

The EC-funded international research project “RESPOND: Multilevel Governance of Mass Migration in Europe and Beyond” calls for human-rights responses to the explosive situation at the refugee camp “Moria” and in the Aegean region.

After another fire in which a woman was burnt to death, on Sunday 29 September 2019, the inhuman and volatile situation of the “hot-spot” Moria on the Greek island, Lesbos attracted further worldwide publicity. The woman’s death on Sunday was the third in the last two months.

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