Posts tagged Sweden
Integration Policies, Practices & Experiences: SWEDEN Country Report

Önver Cetrez, Valerie DeMarinis, Johanna Pettersson, Mudar Shakra with contribution by:

Rajon Arifuzzaman, Pauline Fritz, Ala Sivets | Uppsala University

This report explores the Swedish integration policies and practices as well as their implementation as experienced by newcomers. Integration refers to the permanent settlement period that sets in after the acquisition of a permanent residence permit, or when one starts mentally adapting to the host society. Through a multilevel governance approach, it highlights how legal, political, and institutional integration frameworks in Sweden affect integration outcomes. The latter refers specifically to the way newcomers establish themselves in the new society and negotiate their new social position.

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Reception Policies, Practices & Responses: Comparative Reception Policy Typology

Alexander K. Nagel - Göttingen University | Prof. Ayhan Kaya - Bilgi University

In this comparative report we develop a typology of reception governance, which allows for a country comparative perspective on reception measures for refugees. The term “reception governance” is to comprise both reception policies (i.e. a system of principles to guide decisions), decision-making and actual practices. The main rationale for the construction of the typology is that reception governance does not constitute a policy field or domain…

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Reception Policies, Practices & Responses: SYNTHESIS Report

Prof. Ayhan Kaya - Bilgi University | Alexander K. Nagel - Göttingen University

In recent years, the so called “refugee crisis” has triggered considerable policy change in many countries along the Eastern Mediterranean route. We understand reception as a hybrid policy field with a strong attachment to social policy. In many countries, welfare production used to be (or has become) a highly collaborative endeavour which spans different levels of political decision making (e.g. national, regional and municipal) and involves a high degree of subcontracting and public-private collaboration. The previously published 11 country reports…

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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…

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Reception Policies, Practices & Responses: SWEDEN Country Report

Soner Barthoma, Ala Sivets, Arifuzzaman Rajon, Johanna Pettersson, Pauline Fritz, Aurora Rossi, Jonas Begemann, Oscar Larsson | Uppsala University

This report explores reception policies, practices and humanitarian responses to the current refugee crisis in Sweden, focusing on the aftermath of 2015 unprecedented refugee migration, and also providing a brief historical perspective. Sweden has been known as one of the most generous countries in terms of welcoming refugees and providing an easy path to citizenship but its migration and reception policy has taken a ‘restrictive turn’ in recent years. The refugee crisis in 2015 has not only opened the window for ‘a major policy shift’ and ‘historical’ legislative changes to the Swedish migration and reception policy but also impacted the social, economic and political sphere instigating anti-immigrant sentiments.

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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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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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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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