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Refugee Protection Regimes: IRAQ Country Report

William K. Warda, Hqamed Shihab Almaffraji | Hammurabi Human Rights Organization

This report is a study of the conditions of asylum seekers and refugees in Iraq, as well as covering data and scenarios on internally displaced persons, with regard to international protection and other types of protection, and knowledge of the extent of its adaptation to regional and international agreements, instruments and treaties related to the protection of refugees and everything related to human rights and protecting it.

Protection RegimesRESPOND Horizon2020January 28, 2020Hammurabi Human Rights Organization, IraqComment

Refugee Protection Regimes: SWEDEN Country Report

Mudar Shakra, Justyna Szalanska | Uppsala University

The main objective of this report is to describe and investigate the impact of recent migration and asylum seekers influx on the asylum determination system and protection regime in Sweden since 2011 onwards, particularly before and after the so- called 2015 refugee crisis. This report in the work package three (WP3) in RESPOND research project aims to complete the research that started with the report of the work package one (WP1) whose focus was on the legal and policy framework of the Migration governance in Sweden. The main contribution of this report in comparison with the WP1 report is related to microanalysis as well as meso and macro analysis in the sections 5, 6, 7 and 8. Therefore, the voices of the asylum seekers, beneficiaries of subsidiary protection and other form of protection statuses are represented in the microanalysis.

Protection RegimesRESPOND Horizon2020January 27, 2020Uppsala University, SwedenComment

Refugee Protection Regimes: GREECE Country Report

Nadina Leivaditi, Evangelia Papatzani, Aggelos Ilias, Electra Petracou | University of the Aegean

The main goal of this report is to present and discuss both the legal framework and the implementation of refugee protection and asylum procedures in Greece in a timeframe from 2011 to 2018, focusing on the example of the island of Lesvos. It draws from empirical research evidence on existing practices and responses at the grassroots level and reflects on the experiences, perceptions and actions of actors and refugees by highlighting the main problems and difficulties in the implementation of international protection policies.

Protection RegimesRESPOND Horizon2020January 24, 2020University of the Aegean, GreeceComment

Refugee Protection Regimes: TURKEY Country Report

N. Ela Gökalp Aras, Zeynep Sahin Mencütek | Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul

This report investigates how Turkey interprets, narrates and implements its obligations towards international protection for refugees, with an emphasis on the recent migration movements. This report examines the international protection, in particular refugee protection including temporary protection, focusing on the main legal and policy framework as well as the organisations and actors involved in policy implementation. It explores how Turkey applies international protection instruments, particularly the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees.

Protection RegimesRESPOND Horizon2020January 21, 2020Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, TurkeyComment

Refugee Protection Regimes: AUSTRIA Country Report

Ivan Josipovic, Ursula Reeger | Austrian Academy of Sciences (OEAW)

This report deals with the protection of refugees in Austria between 2011 and 2018 by drawing (1) from an analysis of the legal framework and its implementation and (2) by building on extensive field research conducted under the framework of the RESPOND project. It shows that the so-called “refugee crisis” of 2015 represents a crucial turning point in asylum policy. While refugee protection remains intact as a constitutionally secured right, the Austrian government introduced a number of legal restrictions, including procedural hurdles, emergency provisions allowing for restricted access to federal territory and thus the asylum procedure, as well as restrictions for persons who obtain protection status. These reforms occurred at a time when the Common European Asylum System displayed serious deficiencies.

Protection RegimesRESPOND Horizon2020January 15, 2020Institute for Urban and Regional Research Austrian Academy of Sciences, AustriaComment

Refugee Protection Regimes: GERMANY Country Report

Valeria Hänsel, Sabine Hess, Svenja Schurade | University of Gottingen

This report examines the asylum determination systems and refugee protection regimes of Germany from a multilevel governance perspective, taking into consideration the national level as well as the state and municipal one. Additionally it explores the legal framework, as well as its implementation and concrete practices, along with main narratives among public and state actors and the perception and experiences of asylum-seeking migrants from a historical perspective. The report reveals that after a key decisive policy change in 1993, codified in the so-called asylum compromise establishing central features that endure until today, the nextdecisive break was the developments of 2015/2016 – with the massive inflow of nearly 800,000 asylum-seeking migrants to Germany.

Protection RegimesRESPOND Horizon2020January 9, 2020Göttingen University, GermanyComment

Refugee Protection Regimes: ITALY Country Report

Renato Ibrido, Andrea Terlizzi | University of Florence

The report explores the impact of the recent migration flows on the asylum and international protection regimes in Italy during the years 2011-2017 and also seeks to identify some best practices and policy recommendations. Through empirical evidence, statistics, expert interviews, discourse analysis and an overview of academic literature, the report examines the response of the Italian authorities to the growing number of applications for international protection (and therefore, the consequent growth of a strong anti-immigrant narrative).

Protection RegimesRESPOND Horizon2020January 8, 2020University of Florence, ItalyComment

European External Border Management and its Narratives

Jonas Begemann | Uppsala University & Göttingen University

Large numbers of incoming refugees since 2015 were perceived as a major challenge for European cooperation and migratory regimes and the situation has within Europe soon been seen as a crisis. Since then, European states and the European Union (EU) have intensified measures to shut down migrant routes to Europe as well as their attempts to externalise means of protection of refugees in Africa. Based on a theoretical framework consisting of political science border studies, postcolonial studies and the method of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) together with the study of narratives in politics, this thesis analyses two critical events in this field, the 2015 Valletta Summit on migration where European and African leaders discussed the terms of migration cooperation and the 2018 debate on disembarkation platforms.

Thesis, EU Ext. Border ManagementRESPOND Horizon2020November 12, 2019Uppsala University, Göttingen University, Sweden, GermanyComment

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