Border Management and Migration Control – Comparative Report

Lena Karamanidou - Glasgow Caledonian University | Bernd Kasparek, Sabine Hess - Göttingen University

This report is the part of the WP 2.3 work package of RESPOND, which explores border management and migration controls in the eleven countries selected for the RESPOND project (Austria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iraq, Italy, Lebanon, Poland, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom) between 2011 and 2017. The current report provides a comparative analysis of the legal frameworks and policy implementation in these eleven countries, drawing on the national reports submitted as the second deliverable of WP2…

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Reception Policies, Practices & Responses: POLAND Country Report

Marta Pachocka, Konrad Pędziwiatr, Karolina Sobczak-Szelc, Justyna Szałańska | Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw

This country research report, prepared within Work Package 4, is focused on the reception conditions and reception policy in Poland and delivered under the H2020 project RESPOND—Multilevel Governance of Mass Migration in Europe and Beyond. In Poland, reception in legal and institutional terms means assistance for foreigners applying for international protection. Its basic scope is governed by the national provisions of the Law on Protection and two ordinances regarding the amount of…

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Reception Policies, Practices & Responses: GERMANY Country Report

J. E. Chemin, Alexander K. Nagel | University of Göttingen

The report focuses on reception policies and practices in Germany between 2011 and 2018. In the reporting period, Germany has received more than two Million asylum applicants, mainly from Syria, Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq, but also from the Balkans as well as North and sub-Saharan Africa. Within Germany, there are two major legal sources related to reception, i.e. the Asylum Act (Asylgesetz) and the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act (Asylbewerberleistungsgesetz). The Asylum Act outlines the process under…

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Reception Policies, Practices & Responses: HUNGARY Country Report

Daniel Gyollai, Umut Korkut | Glasgow Caledonian University

This report shows how the inhuman border protection and protection policies of the Hungarian government have triggered an adverse refugee reception environment. This is despite very few numbers of refugees currently in the country and even minimal number of people in the current reception system. As we have raised in the previous WP2 Hungary Border Management country report,1 there are grave cases concerning the implementation of the EU directives affecting the delivery of refugee reception policies as well. Moreover…

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Reception Policies, Practices & Responses: GREECE Country Report

Evangelia Papatzani, Nadina Leivaditi, Aggelos Ilias, Electra Petracou | University of the Aegean

This report is part of the fourth Work Package of RESPOND (WP4) and deals with the issues of refugee reception. The main goal of the report is to present and discuss the legislative measures and policies, the reception practices followed by state and non-state agencies and the experiences of asylum-seekers with regards to reception in Greece. The report focuses on refugee reception policies in the period 2011-2018 and on reception practices since 2015.

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Reception Policies, Practices & Responses: ITALY Country Report

Andrea Terlizzi | University of Florence

This report explores the development of the Italian reception regime between 2011 and 2018. The aim is to study the legal and policy framework, to map the institutions and actors involved in implementation, and to assess policy coherence with respect to international and EU standards. The report firstly traces the evolution of legal provisions and policies and describes in details the functioning of the multi-level system of reception, that is organized into the three main phases: first aid and assistance, first reception, and second reception…

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