Posts tagged Italy
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…

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The European Union's Externalisation Policy in the Field of Migration and Asylum: Turkey as a Case Study

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…

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Conflicting Conceptualisations of Europeanisation: ITALY Country Report

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.

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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…

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Communicating with Unaccompanied Foreign Minors: How UN agencies engage with newly arrived migrant and refugee children in Italy

Valentina Baú | University of New South Wales

This paper provides an overview of the communication practices that UN agencies working on the migration response in Italy have adopted in their work with newly arrived unaccompanied migrant children. These include IOM, UNICEF and UNHCR. The aim is to present the different objectives and methodologies of each agency’s intervention under an overall framework.

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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.

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Integration Policies, Practices & Experiences: ITALY Country Report

Renato Ibrido, Claudia Marchese | University of Florence

The Italian case is characterised by a considerable delay in the development of a model of integration. Indeed, with a long tradition as a country of emigration, Italy has been culturally less well equipped to face the challenges of a multicultural society. Moreover, the country’s geographical position – which impedes an efficient control of the borders – has incentivised policies to contain the arrivals rather than to promote integration.

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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…

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