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Refugee Protection Regimes: TURKEY Country Report

N. Ela Gökalp Aras, Zeynep Sahin Mencütek | Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul

This report investigates how Turkey interprets, narrates and implements its obligations towards international protection for refugees, with an emphasis on the recent migration movements. This report examines the international protection, in particular refugee protection including temporary protection, focusing on the main legal and policy framework as well as the organisations and actors involved in policy implementation. It explores how Turkey applies international protection instruments, particularly the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees.

Protection RegimesRESPOND Horizon2020January 21, 2020Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, TurkeyComment

Refugee Protection Regimes: AUSTRIA Country Report

Ivan Josipovic, Ursula Reeger | Austrian Academy of Sciences (OEAW)

This report deals with the protection of refugees in Austria between 2011 and 2018 by drawing (1) from an analysis of the legal framework and its implementation and (2) by building on extensive field research conducted under the framework of the RESPOND project. It shows that the so-called “refugee crisis” of 2015 represents a crucial turning point in asylum policy. While refugee protection remains intact as a constitutionally secured right, the Austrian government introduced a number of legal restrictions, including procedural hurdles, emergency provisions allowing for restricted access to federal territory and thus the asylum procedure, as well as restrictions for persons who obtain protection status. These reforms occurred at a time when the Common European Asylum System displayed serious deficiencies.

Protection RegimesRESPOND Horizon2020January 15, 2020Institute for Urban and Regional Research Austrian Academy of Sciences, AustriaComment

Refugee Protection Regimes: GERMANY Country Report

Valeria Hänsel, Sabine Hess, Svenja Schurade | University of Gottingen

This report examines the asylum determination systems and refugee protection regimes of Germany from a multilevel governance perspective, taking into consideration the national level as well as the state and municipal one. Additionally it explores the legal framework, as well as its implementation and concrete practices, along with main narratives among public and state actors and the perception and experiences of asylum-seeking migrants from a historical perspective. The report reveals that after a key decisive policy change in 1993, codified in the so-called asylum compromise establishing central features that endure until today, the nextdecisive break was the developments of 2015/2016 – with the massive inflow of nearly 800,000 asylum-seeking migrants to Germany.

Protection RegimesRESPOND Horizon2020January 9, 2020Göttingen University, GermanyComment

Refugee Protection Regimes: ITALY Country Report

Renato Ibrido, Andrea Terlizzi | University of Florence

The report explores the impact of the recent migration flows on the asylum and international protection regimes in Italy during the years 2011-2017 and also seeks to identify some best practices and policy recommendations. Through empirical evidence, statistics, expert interviews, discourse analysis and an overview of academic literature, the report examines the response of the Italian authorities to the growing number of applications for international protection (and therefore, the consequent growth of a strong anti-immigrant narrative).

Protection RegimesRESPOND Horizon2020January 8, 2020University of Florence, ItalyComment

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