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Reception Policies, Practices & Responses: SYNTHESIS Report

Prof. Ayhan Kaya - Bilgi University | Alexander K. Nagel - Göttingen University

In recent years, the so called “refugee crisis” has triggered considerable policy change in many countries along the Eastern Mediterranean route. We understand reception as a hybrid policy field with a strong attachment to social policy. In many countries, welfare production used to be (or has become) a highly collaborative endeavour which spans different levels of political decision making (e.g. national, regional and municipal) and involves a high degree of subcontracting and public-private collaboration. The previously published 11 country reports…

Reception Policies, Synthesis ReportRESPOND Horizon2020May 4, 2020Bilgi University, Göttingen University, Austria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iraq, Italy, Lebanon, Poland, Sweden, Turkey, UKComment

Reception Policies, Practices & Responses: LEBANON Country Report

Karen Rahme | Lebanon Support

This report provides a contextual analysis of the provision of reception to asylum seekers in Lebanon, with a particular focus on the developments of the period spanning 2011 to 2019. Research findings highlight the absence of a comprehensive asylum reception regime, in favour of a set of formal and informal ad-hoc policies and decisions taken from 2014 onwards, with the specific aim of dissuading populations of concerns from settling in the country…

Reception PoliciesRESPOND Horizon2020April 17, 2020Lebanon Support, LebanonComment

Reception Policies, Practices & Responses: IRAQ Country Report

William K. Warda , Hamed Shihab Almaffraji, Shwaan N.Khurshid | Hammurabi Human Rights Organization (HHRO)

This report is a study of the process of receiving refugees and displaced people in Iraq, specifically in terms of Iraqi legislation and policies, and the their implementation in regard to institutions and actors involved in the refugee reception processes for the period of 2011-2017. It also aims at discovering the extent to which Iraqi legislations and policies have been adapted and harmonized in accordance with the spirit and provisions of the Iraqi constitution, the rules of international law with regard to reception conditions, and human rights standards…

Reception PoliciesRESPOND Horizon2020April 13, 2020Hammurabi Human Rights Organization, IraqComment

Border Management and Migration Control – Comparative Report

Lena Karamanidou - Glasgow Caledonian University | Bernd Kasparek, Sabine Hess - Göttingen University

This report is the part of the WP 2.3 work package of RESPOND, which explores border management and migration controls in the eleven countries selected for the RESPOND project (Austria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iraq, Italy, Lebanon, Poland, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom) between 2011 and 2017. The current report provides a comparative analysis of the legal frameworks and policy implementation in these eleven countries, drawing on the national reports submitted as the second deliverable of WP2…

Comparative Report, Border ManagementRESPOND Horizon2020March 30, 2020Göttingen University, Glasgow Caledonian University, Austria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iraq, Italy, Lebanon, Poland, Sweden, Turkey, UKComment

Reception Policies, Practices & Responses: POLAND Country Report

Marta 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…

Reception PoliciesRESPOND Horizon2020March 26, 2020University of Warsaw, PolandComment

Reception Policies, Practices & Responses: GERMANY Country Report

J. E. Chemin, Alexander K. Nagel | University of Göttingen

The report focuses on reception policies and practices in Germany between 2011 and 2018. In the reporting period, Germany has received more than two Million asylum applicants, mainly from Syria, Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq, but also from the Balkans as well as North and sub-Saharan Africa. Within Germany, there are two major legal sources related to reception, i.e. the Asylum Act (Asylgesetz) and the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act (Asylbewerberleistungsgesetz). The Asylum Act outlines the process under…

Reception PoliciesRESPOND Horizon2020March 16, 2020Göttingen University, GermanyComment

Reception Policies, Practices & Responses: HUNGARY Country Report

Daniel Gyollai, Umut Korkut | Glasgow Caledonian University

This report shows how the inhuman border protection and protection policies of the Hungarian government have triggered an adverse refugee reception environment. This is despite very few numbers of refugees currently in the country and even minimal number of people in the current reception system. As we have raised in the previous WP2 Hungary Border Management country report,1 there are grave cases concerning the implementation of the EU directives affecting the delivery of refugee reception policies as well. Moreover…

Reception PoliciesRESPOND Horizon2020March 9, 2020Glasgow Caledonian University, HungaryComment

Reception Policies, Practices & Responses: GREECE Country Report

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

This report is part of the fourth Work Package of RESPOND (WP4) and deals with the issues of refugee reception. The main goal of the report is to present and discuss the legislative measures and policies, the reception practices followed by state and non-state agencies and the experiences of asylum-seekers with regards to reception in Greece. The report focuses on refugee reception policies in the period 2011-2018 and on reception practices since 2015.

Reception PoliciesRESPOND Horizon2020March 4, 2020University of the Aegean, GreeceComment

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