Posts tagged Ivan Josipovic
RESPOND Conference 2020 – Challenges and Priorities in Reception and Integration
RESPOND Conference 2020 – Challenges and Priorities in Reception and Integration

by Ivan Josipovic | Austrian Academy of Sciences

The reception of asylum seekers and their integration have been hotly debated topics in European Member States since the Long Summer of Migration in 2015. On day two of the RESPOND Conference 2020 (November 21st) we held an online session on the reception and integration regimes in Austria, Germany Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Alexander-Kenneth Nagel and Ayhan Kaya moderated a fruitful discussion between four experts who are professionally active in the field of asylum and immigrant support…

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Austria, Spotlight on RESPOND-ersRESPOND Horizon2020Spotlight on RESPONDERS, Fieldwork Stories, University of Florence, Austrian Academy of Science, Ivan JosipovicComment
Assessing Austrian Policy Reforms: Practitioners’ Points of View
Assessing Austrian Policy Reforms: Practitioners’ Points of View

by Ivan Josipovic & Ursula Reeger | Austrian Academy of Sciences

As we discussed in our first blog entry, the summer of migration in 2015 left a considerable mark on Austrian politics and led to multiple policy reforms. Political debates on refugees’ rights and duties continue to this day, while the number of new arrivals has steeply declined and the situation of reception has largely normalized. Under the framework of RESPOND, we spent the last months conducting interviews with eleven practitioners, who are active in the fields of asylum and integration.

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Border Management, Austria, Spotlight on RESPOND-ers, Law and PolicyRESPOND Horizon2020Spotlight on RESPONDERS, Fieldwork Stories, University of Florence, Austrian Academy of Science, Ivan Josipovic, Ursula Reeger, Assesing Austrian Policy ReformsComment