RESPOND Press Release No. 111/2020 – 21 November 2020
After three years of intense research on European migration and asylum governance in 11 European and non-European countries (Greece, Italy, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Sweden, UK, Poland, Iraq, Lebanon and Turkey), the final results of the EU financed research project “RESPOND” paint a gloomy picture of the European Union and member states’ governance capacities and failures.
Read MoreRESPOND 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.
Read MorePress 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…
Read Moreby Bianca Gazzi (intern) | University of Florence
In response to the COVID-19 emergency, many countries have taken severe measures to prevent the spread of the virus. Because of the state of emergency, these measures, although legitimate and necessary, restrict some fundamental human rights. In this context, the European Commission and other several actors, such as UNHCR and WHO, published…
Read Moreby 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.
Read Moreby Bahar Filiz | Ozyegin University
In recent months, the developments of the COVID-19 pandemic have set the media agenda in Turkish newspapers. Before the COVID-19 outbreak, immigrants had begun moving toward Greek borders to reach Europe. This movement began when the Turkish government decided to remove obstacles along the Greek border on February 29, 2020. The Minister of Internal Affairs, Suleyman Soylu, gave numerical information about the number of refugees who crossed borders: “On the first day 9,062, on the second day 43,068, on the third day 65,127, on the fourth day 10,030, on the fifth day, 5,722 people passed.”
Read Moreby Mattia Collini | University of Florence
While most of the world is now fighting an invisible enemy, the category of invisibles has also expanded beyond microbial things. Among, these, at least in Italy, we find migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. Migration was a hot topic in Italian politics and media, however, with the explosion of the COVID-19 outbreak, this issue, as well as practically all ‘ordinary’ ones we were used to, suddenly disappeared, with the whole public, and political attention - understandably - focused on the virus…
Read Moreby Hammurabi Human Rights Organization (HHRO) | RESPOND
HHRO, founded on April 1, 2005, is a non-profit non-governmental organization with more than 100 volunteers from different regions of Iraq, managed by a board of Directors of seven persons. The organization headquarter is in Baghdad. It has branch offices in Erbil and Nineveh, and has partnerships with local and international organizations. On December 2018, HHRO became a partner in a Consortium called "RESPOND.'' In light of this partnership, the aim was to open service Hubs for Syrian refugees and displaced Iraqis, therefore, since January 2019, Hammurabi has opened two service center…
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