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Reception Policies, Practices & Responses: ITALY Country Report

Andrea Terlizzi | University of Florence

This report explores the development of the Italian reception regime between 2011 and 2018. The aim is to study the legal and policy framework, to map the institutions and actors involved in implementation, and to assess policy coherence with respect to international and EU standards. The report firstly traces the evolution of legal provisions and policies and describes in details the functioning of the multi-level system of reception, that is organized into the three main phases: first aid and assistance, first reception, and second reception…

Reception PoliciesRESPOND Horizon2020March 2, 2020University of Florence, ItalyComment

Reception Policies, Practices & Responses: UK Country Report

Lena Karamanidou, James Folley | Glasgow Caledonian University

The current report provides an overview of the UK legal and policy frameworks and policies on reception. Further, it maps related to the implementation of reception policies, as well as the actors involved and relations among them. Since the early 1990s, asylum seekers have been increasingly separated from mainstream systems of welfare provision and excluded from the labour market. The 1993 Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act, the 1996 Asylum and Immigration Act, the 1999 Immigration and Asylum Act and the 2002 Immigration and Asylum Act were crucial milestones in this process.

Reception PoliciesRESPOND Horizon2020February 27, 2020Glasgow Caledonian University, UKComment

Reception Policies, Practices & Responses: SWEDEN Country Report

Soner Barthoma, Ala Sivets, Arifuzzaman Rajon, Johanna Pettersson, Pauline Fritz, Aurora Rossi, Jonas Begemann, Oscar Larsson | Uppsala University

This report explores reception policies, practices and humanitarian responses to the current refugee crisis in Sweden, focusing on the aftermath of 2015 unprecedented refugee migration, and also providing a brief historical perspective. Sweden has been known as one of the most generous countries in terms of welcoming refugees and providing an easy path to citizenship but its migration and reception policy has taken a ‘restrictive turn’ in recent years. The refugee crisis in 2015 has not only opened the window for ‘a major policy shift’ and ‘historical’ legislative changes to the Swedish migration and reception policy but also impacted the social, economic and political sphere instigating anti-immigrant sentiments.

Reception PoliciesRESPOND Horizon2020February 24, 2020Uppsala University, SwedenComment

Reception Policies, Practices & Responses: AUSTRIA Country Report

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

This report deals with the reception of asylum seekers in Austria between 2011 and 2019. In the federal Austrian system, competences in the area of reception are divided between the federal government, which is responsible for persons during their early asylum application phase, and the nine provinces which are responsible for providing care and housing during the substantive asylum procedure. During the so-called “refugee crisis” of 2015, the shortage of reception facilities led to a series of conflicts between different tiers of government involved in the regulation of asylum seeker distribution and housing.

Reception PoliciesRESPOND Horizon2020February 17, 2020Institute for Urban and Regional Research Austrian Academy of Sciences, AustriaComment

Reception Policies, Practices & Responses: TURKEY Country Report

Prof. Ayhan Kaya | Bilgi University

This country report includes a detailed analysis of reception policies, practices and humanitarian responses from state actors and non-state agencies in Turkey. Data on policies were retrieved through desk research on policy papers and documents at national and sub-national levels, building on the international and EU framework. The analysis of secondary data includes the elaboration of maps of reception policies, practices and humanitarian responses and new typologies of these policies, practices and responses. Evidence on existing practices and responses at the grassroots level have been gathered through interviews and roundtable discussions with key-informants and gatekeepers such as national/local authorities, and NGO representatives. The report also includes the analysis of migrants’ perceptions, actions and reactions to reception policies and practices in Turkey.

Reception PoliciesRESPOND Horizon2020February 14, 2020Bilgi University, TurkeyComment

Refugee Protection Regimes: UK Country Report

James Foley | Glasgow Caledonian University

This report investigates how the UK interprets, narrates and implements its obligations towards international protection for refugees and others that are at significant risk of serious human rights violations and persecution, with an emphasis on the impact of recent migration movements. It explores how the UK applies international protection instruments, particularly the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees/the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees and Common European Asylum System (CEAS) directives, and examines the political and policy conflicts that have resulted, most notably with the 2016 “Brexit” referendum on UK membership of the European Union (EU).

Protection RegimesRESPOND Horizon2020February 5, 2020Glasgow Caledonian University, UKComment

Refugee Protection Regimes: POLAND Country Report

Marta 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;

Protection RegimesRESPOND Horizon2020February 3, 2020University of Warsaw, PolandComment

Refugee Protection Regimes: LEBANON Country Report

Karen Rahme | Lebanon Support

This report provides a contextual analysis of the provision of refugee protection in Lebanon. It highlights the absence of a comprehensive refugee protection legal framework, in favour of a set of formal and informal ad hoc policies, which are limited in scope and inclusivity. While the Lebanese polity is a signatory of international conventions1 calling for non-discriminatory protection, and non-refoulement, it falls short in practice with direct and indirect measures, breaching those very principles.

Protection RegimesRESPOND Horizon2020January 30, 2020Lebanon Support, LebanonComment

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