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 [2020/6]
Authors: Mudar Shakra - Uppsala University | Justyna Szalanska - Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul | Önver A. Cetrez - Uppsala University
This policy brief aims to provide a brief overview of the current Swedish protection regime and the main legislative changes in asylum and migration policies between 2011 and 2019, which was investigated in depth in Work package 3 of the RESPOND project. Sweden has been internationally recognised as one of the main supporters of the international protection regime and a leading country in providing sanctuary to persons in need of protection. Sweden has received a large number of asylum seekers since 2012 in comparison to other EU member states. During the fall of 2015 in its referral response, the Swedish Migration Agency…
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