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....
Read MoreRESPOND Policy Brief [2021/19]
Authors: Lena Karamanidou - Glasgow Caledonian University | Bernd Kasparek - University of Göttingen
The European Border and Coast Guard Agency Frontex is currently undergoing intense scrutiny. An investigation of its own Management Board did not fully clear the Agency from alleged involvement in pushbacks – illegal returns that violate human rights under…
Read MoreRESPOND Policy Brief [2021/14]
Author: Prof.Dr. Sabine Hess - Göttingen University
Der Forschungsbericht »Refugee Protection in Germany« des Horizon 2020 Forschungsprojekts RESPOND untersucht die asylrechtlichen Regelungen in Deutschland seit 2011 hinsichtlich ihres Schutzcharakters für Geflüchtete…
Read MoreRESPOND Policy Brief [2021/13]
Author: Alexander-Kenneth Nagel - Göttingen University
This policy brief focuses on reception policies, practices and humanitarian responses to refugee immigration in Germany between 2011 and 2017. Despite efforts to achieve harmonization (especially promoted by the 2016 CEAS and by the ENP), relevant differences exist in this field across EU member states. The European Union (Directive 2013/33/EU) has defined a number of “material conditions” of reception including “housing, food and clothing provided in kind, or as financial…
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