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Protection Regimes – a Critical Analysis

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…

Protection RegimesRESPOND Horizon2020March 26, 2021University of Florence, Göttingen University, Germany, ItalyComment

Integration Policies,Trends, Problems and Challenges: An Integrated Report of 9 Country Cases

Soner Barthoma, Önver Cetrez | Uppsala University - N. Ela Gökalp Aras, Zeynep Şahin Mencütek | Swedish research Institute Istanbul - Naures Atto | University of Cambridge

This report provides a snapshot for some of the primary findings, trends and challenges with regard to immigrant integration that have been studied in nine country cases, based on research conducted within the framework…

Conflicting Conceptualisations of Europeanisation: GERMANY Country Report

Alexander K. Nagel | Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

This report explores how recent processes of immigration have changed discourses about “Europe” in Germany. It aims at a) capturing conflicting Europeanisation in the German context and to aid theory-construction by adding to a comparative picture, b) developing a perspective on the role of media in domestic audience-making in this context and c) understanding how the above impacts on different professional audiences, including the stakeholders assembled within the RESPOND project.

Europeanisation ConflictRESPOND Horizon2020October 23, 2020Göttingen University, GermanyComment

Border Experiences and Practices of Refugees - Comparative Report

Sabine Hess - Göttingen University | Vasileios Petrogiannis - Uppsala University

This report analyzes how refugees are impacted by border-management policies and migration controls, and how they experience these policies and respond to them. It is based on 507 interviews with refugee migrants who made their way to Lebanon, Turkey, as well as a number of European countries between 2013 and 2018, being conducted by the eleven national Respond Teams. The empirical data not only allows us to reconstruct the effects of the existing border regimes on the lives of those who are their main object and target; we also outline how this analytical perspective on the practices and experiences of refugee migrants also enriches our understanding of what a “border” is today, and how it has been practiced by the respective nation-states in recent years.

Consequences & ResponsesRESPOND Horizon2020September 1, 2020Göttingen University, Germany, Uppsala University, SwedenComment

Refugee Protection Regimes: Comparative Report

Ela Gökalp Aras, Zeynep Şahin Mencütek - Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul | Evangelia Papatzani, Nadina Leivaditi, Electra Petracou - University of the Aegean

This comparative report is based on the RESPOND country reports [deliverable D3.1] that discusses the developments regarding legislation, policy measures and practices on refugee protection, but most importantly the implementation aspect in ten countries covered by the project (Austria, Germany, Greece, Iraq, Italy, Lebanon, Poland, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom) for the 2011-2019 period. This report aims to provide a comparative analysis of refugee protection, emphasising the implementation aspect as drawn from the experiences and perceptions of meso and micro level actors. In doing so, the report offers analytical insights for evaluating the implications of the dynamics of refugee protection, which has undergone many changes since 2011.

Protection Regimes, Comparative ReportRESPOND Horizon2020August 7, 2020Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, University of the Aegean, Austria, Iraq, Italy, Poland, Lebanon, Germany, Greece, Sweden, Turkey, UKComment

Fundamental Rights, Accountability and Transparency in European Governance of Migration: The Case of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency Frontex

Lena Karamanidou - Glasgow Caledonian University | Bernd Kasparek - Göttingen University

This report analyses and interrogates the accountability and transparency regime of the European Union’s border agency Frontex. Frontex was established as a European Union agency in the field of border, migration and asylum policies in 2004 and began operating in 2005. Over the last 15 years, the mandate of the agency, originally tasked with coordinating the operational management of the European Union’s external border through support to the EU’s member states, has expanded significantly.

Consequences & ResponsesRESPOND Horizon2020July 31, 2020Glasgow Caledonian University, UK, Göttingen University, GermanyComment

Reception Policies, Practices & Responses: Comparative Reception Policy Typology

Alexander K. Nagel - Göttingen University | Prof. Ayhan Kaya - Bilgi University

In this comparative report we develop a typology of reception governance, which allows for a country comparative perspective on reception measures for refugees. The term “reception governance” is to comprise both reception policies (i.e. a system of principles to guide decisions), decision-making and actual practices. The main rationale for the construction of the typology is that reception governance does not constitute a policy field or domain…

Reception Policies, Policy Typology, Comparative ReportRESPOND Horizon2020June 8, 2020Bilgi University, Göttingen University, Austria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iraq, Italy, Lebanon, Sweden, Turkey, UK, PolandComment

Integration Policies, Practices & Experiences: GERMANY Country Report

J. Eduardo Chemin, Alexander K. Nagel | Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

This report is about Germany's integration system. Germany is a “reluctant” immigration country. Despite its post-World-War-II history of immigration, Germany has never adopted a coherent strategy or policy of integration. Immigration was considered a transitory phenomenon as the notorious term “guest workers” suggests. Considering the expected return of immigrants to their countries of origin, integration policy making has long remained implicit. Recent processes of refugee immigration have opened a policy window for a more…

Integration PoliciesRESPOND Horizon2020June 4, 2020Göttingen University, GermanyComment

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