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Refugee Protection Regimes: SWEDEN Country Report
Refugee Protection Regimes: SWEDEN Country Report

Mudar Shakra, Justyna Szalanska | Uppsala University

The main objective of this report is to describe and investigate the impact of recent migration and asylum seekers influx on the asylum determination system and protection regime in Sweden since 2011 onwards, particularly before and after the so- called 2015 refugee crisis. This report in the work package three (WP3) in RESPOND research project aims to complete the research that started with the report of the work package one (WP1) whose focus was on the legal and policy framework of the Migration governance in Sweden. The main contribution of this report in comparison with the WP1 report is related to microanalysis as well as meso and macro analysis in the sections 5, 6, 7 and 8. Therefore, the voices of the asylum seekers, beneficiaries of subsidiary protection and other form of protection statuses are represented in the microanalysis.

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Protection RegimesRESPOND Horizon2020Uppsala University, SwedenComment
European External Border Management and its Narratives
European External Border Management and its Narratives

Jonas Begemann | Uppsala University & Göttingen University

Large numbers of incoming refugees since 2015 were perceived as a major challenge for European cooperation and migratory regimes and the situation has within Europe soon been seen as a crisis. Since then, European states and the European Union (EU) have intensified measures to shut down migrant routes to Europe as well as their attempts to externalise means of protection of refugees in Africa. Based on a theoretical framework consisting of political science border studies, postcolonial studies and the method of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) together with the study of narratives in politics, this thesis analyses two critical events in this field, the 2015 Valletta Summit on migration where European and African leaders discussed the terms of migration cooperation and the 2018 debate on disembarkation platforms.

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Thesis, EU Ext. Border ManagementRESPOND Horizon2020Uppsala University, Göttingen University, Sweden, GermanyComment
Border Management and Migration Controls in SWEDEN Report
Border Management and Migration Controls in SWEDEN Report

Karin Borevi - Mudar Shakra | Uppsala University

From a comparative European perspective, Sweden is generally known as a country pursuing relatively liberal asylum policies. One distinguishing feature of Swedish immigration policy has been the principle that persons who are given asylum are immediately granted permanent residence (although the law allows exemptions from this under certain circumstances).

This report gives an overview of the Swedish legal and policy framework of border management and migration control – how it relates to EU regulations and policies; what key actors are involved in the implementation and what the key issues and challenges are in relation to this field.

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Border ManagementRESPOND Horizon2020Uppsala University, SwedenComment