RESPOND's Working Paper Series ‘Global Migration: Consequences and Responses’ features recent research output by the team members of 14 partner institutions involved in the Horizon 2020 RESPOND project, and is open to all researchers working on similar topics.
We welcome proposals for Working Papers from researchers. Please contact:
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Karin Borevi | Uppsala University - Vasileios Petrogiannis | Södertörn University
This report explores how recent processes of immigration have changed discourses about Europe and migration in Swedish political speeches and newspaper editorials 2011-2018. In the period up to September 2015, political speeches and editorials reflected a dominant humanitarian discourse and Sweden was expected to strive for a better and more…
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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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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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Umut Korkut | Glasgow Caledonian University
This report reviews the unfolding of the future of Europe and external migration related narratives in Hungary, and the liberal/conservative dilemmas that Hungarian politicians proposed since 2015. Its particular scope is the Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s speeches and how they were quoted by or referred to in the Hungarian media. The abrupt increase in the number of irregular migrant arrivals to Hungary prepared the conditions for Orbán to project the course that he foresaw for the conservative transformation for Hungary to transform Europe.
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Evangelia Papatzani, Nadina Leivaditi, Aggelos Ilias, Electra Petracou | University of the Aegean
This report is part of the sixth work package of RESPOND (“Multilevel governance of mass migration in Europe and beyond”) and focuses on the question of Europeanisation. The main goal of this report is to examine how conflicting elite discourses of Europeanisation have emerged in the context of increasing migration in the period 2011-2019 in Greece.
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