RESPOND Press Release No. 111/2020 – 21 November 2020
After three years of intense research on European migration and asylum governance in 11 European and non-European countries (Greece, Italy, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Sweden, UK, Poland, Iraq, Lebanon and Turkey), the final results of the EU financed research project “RESPOND” paint a gloomy picture of the European Union and member states’ governance capacities and failures.
Read MoreRESPOND Press Release No. 111/2020 – 09 November 2020
At the press briefing on November 20, 2020, the central results of the three-year project will be presented and the new migration pact of the EU Commission will be placed in the context of these results. This will be followed by the international final conference "Governing Migration in Europe and Beyond: New Perspectives and Lessons Learned", which aims at the transnational exchange between research, policy and practice.
Read MorePress Release No. 110/2020 – 04 September 2020
by University of Göttingen | RESPOND
The research report “Border Experiences and Practices of Refugees” by the EU project “Multi-level Governance of Mass Migration in Europe and beyond - RESPOND)” provides a unique documentation for the experiences of refugee-migrants with the borders of Europe. The events in 2015 which was labeled as “European refugee crisis” is still affecting the European publics and politics. Much has been said and discussed about 2015/2016 migratory movements…
Read Moreby Hammurabi Human Rights Organization | RESPOND
Our organization condemns the use of refugees as an instrument for political purposes. Hammurabi Human Rights Organization calls on all actors to stop using this humanitarian issue for political goals and calls on civil society organizations and the international community to protect these refugees from cold, hunger, illness and other sufferings…
Read Moreby University of the Aegean | RESPOND
The Greek team of the EC-funded international research project “RESPOND: Multilevel Governance of Mass Migration in Europe and Beyond”, expresses its deepest concern regarding the upsurge of racist violence, institutional abuse and human rights violations unfolding on the Greek and European sea and land borders with Turkey, where thousands of displaced people are stranded under inhumane conditions.
Read MoreThe research report “Refugee Protection in Germany” by the EU project “Multilevel Governance of Migration (RESPOND)” paints a gloomy picture of the human rights protection for asylum seekers in Germany. Among other things, the authors speak of a “differential exclusion” of ever larger groups from German asylum law on the basis of more or less arbitrary criteria. Although the basic right to asylum in Germany is officially unaffected, the authors argue that the many legal exceptions and hurdles lead to the fact that the protection standards of the Geneva Convention on Refugees and the European Charter of Human Rights are becoming less and less applicable in Germany. Professor Sabine Hess from the University of Göttingen led the research in Germany.
Read MoreThe EC-funded international research project “RESPOND: Multilevel Governance of Mass Migration in Europe and Beyond” calls for human-rights responses to the explosive situation at the refugee camp “Moria” and in the Aegean region.
After another fire in which a woman was burnt to death, on Sunday 29 September 2019, the inhuman and volatile situation of the “hot-spot” Moria on the Greek island, Lesbos attracted further worldwide publicity. The woman’s death on Sunday was the third in the last two months.
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