The Research Topic, Migrants' psychosocial health: cultural and religious resources through resilience and coping, is published in Frontiers and addresses how resilience and coping strategies are expressed among the most vulnerable communities, and how they are bearing the burden and enduring the most dire consequences of recent crises, not the least the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak. People with migrant backgrounds, refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants, who were already experiencing multifaceted repressions and discrimination, now find themselves in an even more vulnerable situation ranging from immediate....
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Authors: Dr. Ursula Reeger, Ivan Josipovic - Institute for Urban and Regional Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences,
Though Austria has been an immigration country for a long period of time, the arrival of refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan around the year 2015 has resulted in heavy public and political discussions and a panoply of new legal restrictions when it comes to their reception and structural as well as socio-cultural integration. The restrictions set at the national level are echoed by varying strategies on the local level by provincial governments, NGOs, civil society actors and the refugees themselves. This leads to varying conditions of reception and integration across the country.
Read MoreRESPOND Policy Brief [2020/7]
Authors: Dr. Ursula Reeger, Ivan Josipovic - Institute for Urban and Regional Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences,
Austria has been among the main destination countries for asylum seekers in 2015 and 2016 in the European Union. Located in the centre of the Schengen zone, it responded to increased levels of immigration with a national strategy that came at the cost of a joint European solution. Austria reintroduced permanent border controls, passed a unilateral quota for asylum applications and turned towards multilateralism with third states in the Balkans. Based on an in-depth analysis of policy change and implementation, as well as semi-structured interviews with experts active in the field of asylum and border management, we provide the following…
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