RESPOND's Working Paper Series ‘Global Migration: Consequences and Responses’ features recent research output by the team members of 14 partner institutions involved in the Horizon 2020 RESPOND project, and is open to all researchers working on similar topics.
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Karolina Sobczak-Szelc, Justyna Szałańska, Marta Pachocka | Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw
This report is based on a meta-analysis of nine national reports on integration from countries along the so-called Eastern Mediterranean Route. It includes two countries beyond the EU, Turkey and Iraq, which have played an important role as source and transit countries of…
Read MoreBarbara Jancewicz | University of Warsaw
This report focuses on experiences, situation, integration and attitudes of Syrian forced migrants in Turkey in 2019. It describes results RESPOND’s quantitative study of adult migrants from the Syrian Arab Republic who have left their country of origin in 2011 or later, and have sought protection in Turkey no later than 2017. The 789 interviews were conducted in four Turkish cities: Istanbul (234 interviews), Şanliurfa (205 interviews), Izmir (199 interviews) and…
Read MoreSoner Barthoma, Önver Cetrez | Uppsala University - N. Ela Gökalp Aras, Zeynep Şahin Mencütek | Swedish research Institute Istanbul - Naures Atto | University of Cambridge
This report provides a snapshot for some of the primary findings, trends and challenges with regard to immigrant integration that have been studied in nine country cases, based on research conducted within the framework…
Read MoreJustyna Szalanska | University of Warsaw
This report aims to present the results of research on migration discourse and its effect on Europeanisation in Poland. The main objective of the research was to examine how political elite discourse on increasing external migration to the EU is framed in media and deliberated among stakeholders with regard to the course of Europeanisation. The research was based on a three-step analytical process: analysis of political speeches, analysis of the media, and analysis of stakeholder’s opinions.
Read MoreKarolina Sobczak-Szelc, Marta Pachocka, Konrad Pędziwiatr, Justyna Szałańska | University of Warsaw
This report focuses on integration policies towards beneficiaries of international protection in Poland in the period of 2011-2019. It also sheds light on the experiences of integration of the beneficiaries of such protection. The findings of our research indicate that the case of Poland is characterised by lack of official integration strategy. Several legal acts deal with different aspects of integration policy (narrowed to those concerning the beneficiaries of international protection) yet to a varying degree and not specifically devoted to it. In general, beneficiaries of international protection are granted equal rights with Polish citizens in the areas of access to labour market, education, healthcare, and housing.
Read MoreMarta Pachocka, Konrad Pędziwiatr, Karolina Sobczak-Szelc, Justyna Szałańska | Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw
This country research report, prepared within Work Package 4, is focused on the reception conditions and reception policy in Poland and delivered under the H2020 project RESPOND—Multilevel Governance of Mass Migration in Europe and Beyond. In Poland, reception in legal and institutional terms means assistance for foreigners applying for international protection. Its basic scope is governed by the national provisions of the Law on Protection and two ordinances regarding the amount of…
Read MoreMarta Pachocka, Karolina Sobczak Szelc | Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw
This work is the country research report prepared within Work Package 3, focused on refugee protection and asylum policy in Poland, delivered under the H2020 project RESPOND—Multilevel Governance of Mass Migration in Europe and Beyond. The main aims of this report are:
• to analyse policies and practices in the field of international protection implemented by state and non-state actors;
Read MoreMonika Szulecka | Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw
The report focuses on the laws and practices of border management and migration control in Poland. It includes a description of the main developments in migration policy and laws concerning border control and since 2011, focusing on the arrival of asylum seekers, the lack of significant changes in the law, and substantial changes in the state's attitude towards immigration. Furthermore, the report provides a detailed description of the legal framework and implementation related to border management and migration control concerning different phases of the migratory process: before entry, at the border, within the territory, and during return procedures.
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