UK — Policy Briefs

Editorial: Migrants' psychosocial health: cultural and religious resources through resilience and coping

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....

Policy Briefs, Research OutputRESPOND Horizon2020October 12, 2023Sweden, Austria, Iraq, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Turkey, UK

Safe-Guarding Accountability and Fundamental Rights Compliance of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency Frontex – Policy Brief

RESPOND 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…

Policy BriefsRESPOND Horizon2020March 26, 2021Germany, UK, Frontex

Reconceptualizing social Integration: Cultivating social intimacies and inclusive societies – the UK example

RESPOND Policy Brief [2020/5]

Authors: Doga Atalay, Prof. Umut Korkut - Glasgow Caledonian University | Dr Naures Atto - University of Cambridge

Integration of migrants has been a much-contested concept that has received vigorous political and academic interest (Korkut et. al. ed, 2013; Schinkel, 2018). Yet, the Covid-19 pandemic is prone to pose further challenges to the relationship between the member of the host society and newcomers. The societal situation at the face of the pandemic itself requires much compassion, solidarity and responsibility to protect each other and public welfare.

Policy BriefsRESPOND Horizon2020November 19, 2020UK

Crisis governance and the quest for alternative Europeanisation in Hungary

RESPOND Policy Brief [2020/4]

Authors: Prof. Umut Korkut - Daniel Gyollai, Glasgow Caledonian University

This policy brief reflects on the issues of “West” and “Europe” in Hungarian political narrative and public philosophy (Mehta 2011) drawing insights from Viktor Orbán’s speeches collected for RESPOND Work package 6 (WP6) “Conflicting Conceptualizations of Europeanization” report as well as interviews with civil society actors in the country in 2018 and 2019 as part of the RESPOND project. Looking at the Hungarian case, it presents assumptions about strong leadership and Europragmatism amidst economic, political, and health crises. Our policy recommendations are aimed for anti-authoritarian policy and ideational circles in Europe and Hungary.

Policy BriefsRESPOND Horizon2020June 19, 2020UK, Hungary

The Digital Publics of #Schengen and #Eurozone During the Coronavirus Crisis

RESPOND Policy Brief [2020/3]

Authors: Prof. Umut Korkut - Dr. James Foley, Glasgow Caledonian University | Dr. Ozge Ozduzen, Brunel University London

The pandemic in Europe and the outbreak of the coronavirus paved the way to abrupt and extensive border closures in the Schengen zone. More generally, it hindered the solidarity essence of the EU integration. The Schengen zone had temporary border closures in the past, in particular in 2015, amidst the sudden increase in the number of irregular migrant arrivals to Europe. However, at the face of the coronavirus health crisis almost all Schengen states introduced border controls starting with early March 2020. The border closures also implied states’ intervention with the transportation and expropriation of healthcare products across their borders.

Policy BriefsRESPOND Horizon2020June 4, 2020UK

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