While preparing this newsletter, we are closely observing the impacts of the Covid-19 crisis on migration and migrants and will be writing more about this specifically in the coming weeks. We are also troubled by the human rights situation on the Greek islands.  During these troubling times, we call on all people to show solidarity with the most vulnerable groups in our societies. 

In this newsletter, we are pleased to share updates about our research on protection and reception in the countries we study through working papers, the inspiring work of our advice hubs in Iraq and Turkey and our recent conferences, publications and more.

 

RESPOND WORKING PAPERS SERIES and PUBLICATIONS

Would you like to learn more about legal procedures, refugee status determinations & the 1st conditions of support for migrants entering Europe? If so, click the below links to access our working papers on the topics of protection & reception in RESPOND countries.

Protection Austria, Germany, Greece, Iraq, Italy, Lebanon, Poland, Sweden, Turkey, UK

Reception Austria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Sweden, Turkey, UK

 

WORKING PAPER SERIES 2 - COMPARATIVE REPORT

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 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.

 

Advice Hubs

Within the framework of RESPOND, we launched two advice hubs, one in Turkey and one in Iraq beginning December 1, 2018. This model was developed with the aim of providing legal and practical advice to refugees in transit conditions.  Here are the reports and photographs from our Turkish and Iraqi partners about their activities.

Click this link to read the HHRO’s Initial Report of Services in Nineveh Plain & Erbil

 

RESPOND Project Multimedia Outputs

Check out this infographic explaining the reception situation for migrants studied by RESPOND researchers.

Click this link to view a short infographic video explaining the complex laws governing migration to Europe that leave refugees in a state of insecurity and uncertainty studied by RESPOND researchers.

 

CONFERENCE REPORT

In October, RESPOND held its major academic conference, the largest ever on the topic of migration at the University of Cambridge: UNPACKING THE CHALLENGES & POSSIBILITIES FOR MIGRATION GOVERNANCE.  The conference was a stimulating opportunity to interrogate law, gender, border regimes and the very meaning of “good” governance of migration through 10 thematic panels and wisdom shared by 4 keynote speakers. If you would like to see the talks our keynotes gave, please click on the links below:

Prof. Dawn Chatty (Emerita Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration, Former director of the Oxford Refugee Studies Centre)

Prof. Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska (Profesor in Psychology of Religion, Jagiellonian University, Kraków) (no link available)

Prof. Mario Savino (Professor of Administrative Law, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy)

Prof. Peter Scholten (Professor Public Administration specialised in the Dynamics of Migration and Diversity Policies, at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam). 

 

RESPOND-er Publications and Projects

AbiYaghi, M. & C. E. Calabrese. (2018). A special issue for the Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée: “Liban, Syrie. Circulations et réactivations des réseaux militants en guerre (2011-2018)”, Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée, 2018/ 1-2 (vol. 25).  Available here:  https://bit.ly/3bYzK2z

Ahmadi, F., Erbil, P., Ahmadi, N., & Cetrez, Ö (2019). Religion, Culture and Meaning-Making Coping: A Study Among Cancer Patients in Turkey. Journal of Religion and Health, (2019) Vol 58:4. DOI: 10.1007/s10943-018-0646-7.

Gyollai, D. (2019). Getting into it in the wrong way: Interpretative phenomenological analysis and the hermeneutic circle, Nursing Philosophy, DOI: 10.1111/nup.12294.

Gyollai, D. & U. Korkut (2020). LGBTQI Intolerance: The Curtailment of Academic Freedom in Hungary, https://discoversociety.org

Josipovic, I. (2019). Paper presentation: “Legal and spatial boundaries in the Austrian asylum system”, at CEASEVAL International Conference: Refuge Europe - A Question of Solidarity?, Chemnitz, Germany.

–––––– (2019). Paper presentation: “Techniques of migration governance: introducing a multi-level model of policy instrumentation to migration studies” and “Bringing place into the equation: Exploring social integration of refugees in Istanbul and Vienna”, with Susan Rottmann and Ursula Reeger at 16th IMISCOE Annual Conference - Understanding International Migration in the 21st Century, Malmö, Sweden

Kaya, A. (2019). “Küresel Finansal Kriz, Mülteci Krizi ve İslamofobizm Bağlamında Türkiye-AB İlişkileri,” ATAUM 30. Yıl Armağanı, Der. Sinem Akgül Açıkmeşe, Begin Akçay ve Çağrı Erhan, Ankara. http://ataum.ankara.edu.tr/30-yil-armagani/

–––––– (2019-2020) "Introduction to Migration", Chapter in an Online Book prepared by the IOM Ankara for the staff of Directorate General of Migration Management, 2019-2020

–––––– (2019-2020) “Integration of Migrants”. Booklet prepared by the IOM Ankara for the staff of Directorate General of Migration Management, 2019-2020

Kaya, A. & O. Kuyumcuoğlu (2020). The Limits of Toleration towards Syrian Refugees in Turkey: From Guesthood to Ansar Spirit”, in Luiza Bialasiewicz and Valentina Gentile (eds.), Spaces of Tolerance: Changing Geographies and Philosophies of Religion in Today’s Europe. London: Routledge.

Kaya, A. & S. Rottmann (Forthcoming), "“We can’t integrate in Europe. We will pay a high price if we go there.” Culture, Time and Migration Aspirations for Syrian Refugees in Istanbul", Journal of Refugee Studies.

Korkut U. (2020). Labor and Justice Platform Activists as ‘The Pious Resistance’ in Turkey, http://politicsblog.ac.uk

–––––– (2020). In Syria’s Idlib, Turkey is Trying to Play Middle Man Between Russia and The US - with Little Success, https://theconversation.com/

Korkut U., Terlizzi A. & D. Gyollai (2020). Migration controls in Italy and Hungary: institutionalised and discursive means of audience-making, Journal of Language and Politics https://benjamins.com/catalog/jlp.19092.kor.

Rottmann, S., Josipovic, I. & U. Reeger (2020). Beyond Legal Status: Exploring Dimensions of Belonging among Forced Migrants in Istanbul and Vienna.  Social Inclusion 8(1).


Rottmann, S. (2019).  In Pursuit of Belonging: Forging an Ethical Life in European-Turkish Spaces.  Berghahn Books.


Mencutek, Z. S. (2020). Emerging Transnational Practices and Capabilities of Syrian Refugees in Turkey, Migration Letters,  17: 1, pp. 125 – 138.


Mencutek, Z. S. (2019). Turkey’s Approach to Encourage Returns of Syrians, 62,  October, Forced Migration Review, pp. 28-31.  


Pachocka, M. (2020). Relations between Immigration and Integration Policies in Europe. Challenges, Opportunities and Perspectives in Selected EU Member States. (Co-edited and co-authored with M. Duszczyk and D. Pszczółkowska). Available on the Routledge website in Open Access: https://bit.ly/2wmZ2Z2


Tasawar A, Korkut U. & Gyollai A. (2020). The expansion of state authority over the neighbouring states through informal migration controls: The case of Hungary’s control over Serbia. 22 SYbIL (2018) 306-316 [DOI: 10.17103/sybil.22.20]

 

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