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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…

Comparative Report, Border ManagementRESPOND Horizon2020March 30, 2020Göttingen University, Glasgow Caledonian University, Austria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iraq, Italy, Lebanon, Poland, Sweden, Turkey, UKComment

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…

Reception PoliciesRESPOND Horizon2020March 16, 2020Göttingen University, GermanyComment

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

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.

Thesis, EU Ext. Border ManagementRESPOND Horizon2020November 12, 2019Uppsala University, Göttingen University, Sweden, GermanyComment

Border Management and Migration Controls in GERMANY Report

Valeria Hänsel - SabineHess - Bernd Kasparek | University of Goettingen

This country report analyses the border management and migration control policies of the Federal Republic of Germany in relation to the policies and regulations of the European Union. It outlines Germany’s hegemonic position within the European Union regarding migration management and border policies. We argue that the securitized perspective on migration policies – including the externalization strategy prevalent in the EU – is to a substantial degree rooted in discourses, policies, legislation and practices of Germany closely interwoven with European policies.

Border ManagementRESPOND Horizon2020July 9, 2019Göttingen University, GermanyComment

Border Management and Migration Control in the European Union

Lena Karamanidou | Glasgow Caledonian University
Bernd Kasparek | Göttingen University