The first Roundtable discussion, organized by the RESPOND Research Group of the Aegean University, took place in November 2018, constituting a significant part of the ongoing research…
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Many studies have described the legal regulations governing Turkey’s Syrians. The effect of these regulations on migrant families has received less attention, and yet during summer field work in 2018, respondents repeatedly highlighted the difficulties that they faced due to regulations preventing mobility…
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Over the past year, returns of Syrian refugees from Lebanon have risen steadily. Of the nearly 1 million UN-registered Syrian refugees in Lebanon (a further 500,000 are estimated to be in the country informally), around 20,000 are reported to have returned. Every month, hundreds make the journey to Syria via one of the 5 official border crossings…
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In his recent publication "Turkish Origin Migrants and Their Descendants", Ayhan Kaya proposes an interesting approach to the phenomenon of migration in the context of a transnational space constructed by immigrants of Turkish descent and their descendants who manoeuvre between the countries of settlement and origin…
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The Austrian team of the RESPOND project is located at the Institute for Urban and Regional Research (ISR) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In this blog entry, we intend to tell a little bit more about the institution and its tasks and aims, the persons involved in the project, and how RESPOND evolved from our point of view.
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On our way from Orestiada to Alexandroupoli – the two largest urban centres in the border region of Evros, Greece – a young migrant, holding some Euro notes in his hand, tried to board the public bus we were travelling on. The conductor refused him: ‘Police. Papers. Then travel!’, he said in English…
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After much anticipation and excitement, the kick-off of the Migration Governance Network (MGN) in Sweden came and left…
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The development of Poland’s migration and asylum policies and laws date back to 1989 when political and socio-economic transformations began. At this time, the whole region of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) experienced important changes…
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