RESPOND Final Conference
The conference, originally planned to take place in Berlin, was held online. Visit the official Conference Web Page for more information about the event.
About the conference
RESPOND is a Horizon 2020 project, which has studied the multilevel governance of migration in Europe and beyond from 2011 onwards. Its final conference is dedicated to the transnational exchange between researchers, stakeholders and a wider (political) public on main findings, lessons learned and best practices.
Five years after what has been labelled the European refugee crisis, debates about its impacts for the European asylum and migration policy are still ongoing. Cross-country comparative research in a consortium of 14 partners from 11 source, transit and destination countries provides in-depth understanding of governance of recent mass migration especially along the Balkan route.
The conference’s four panels and an evening lecture open up a forum to critically discussed the political and legal frameworks of movement to and within the European Union (EU), the crisis management at the EU’s external borders as well as local practices of reception and integration of refugees in the different EU member countries. 11 posters presented a recap of the situation in 11 countries along the project’s main thematic fields: (1) Border management and security, (2) Refugee protection regimes, (3) Reception policies and (4) Integration policies.
20. Nov 2020 | 16:00 — 18:00 CET Welcome + Panel
RESPOND Final Conference 2020 'Five Years after: The EU Refugee Crisis & the Political Response’
20. Nov 2020 | 19:00 — 20:30 CET Evening Keynote
RESPOND Final Conference 2020 'Covid-19 Measures on Border Controls & Movement of Persons in the EU’
21. Nov 2020 | 15:00 — 16:00 CET
RESPOND Final Conference 2020 'Lessons Learned, Best Practices, Outlook'
21. Nov 2020 | 10:30 — 12:00 CET " Panel
RESPOND Final Conference 2020 'Being at the Gate: The External Dimension of EU Crisis Management'
RESPOND PRESS RELEASE NO. 111/2020 – 21 NOVEMBER 2020
EUROPEAN MIGRATION AND ASYLUM POLICY: RESEARCH PROJECT ATTESTS TO ONGOING GOVERNANCE FAILURES
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.
Posters of the conference "Governing Migration in Europe and Beyond:New Perspectives and Lessons Learned"
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Program of the conference "Governing Migration in Europe and Beyond: New Perspectives and Lessons Learned"
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The digital art exhibition Displaced Bodies and Hearts has been developed as part of the RESPOND project and curated by Dr Naures Atto (University of Cambridge).
This exhibition showcases the artwork of refugee artists who have been forcibly displaced due to violence and wars in their home countries. Whether still in their home country internally displaced, in a transit country or already settled in a host society, artists participating in the exhibition Displaced Bodies and Hearts have produced artwork that tells us the stories of their inner experiences and that of their peoples’ suffering, trauma, resilience and hope.
Reflections of Final Conference
RESPOND CONFERENCE 2020 – CHALLENGES AND PRIORITIES IN RECEPTION AND INTEGRATION
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: Ursula Eltayeb (A), Claire Deery (D), Marlen Eskander (SW) and Robert Makutsa (UK).
