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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Soner 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 MoreIvan Josipovic, Ursula Reeger | Austrian Academy of Sciences (OEAW)
This working paper provides preliminary insights into public debates over Europeanisation and migration in Austria between 2011 and 2019. Based on a qualitative political claims analysis of 15 political speeches, 21 newspaper articles and nine stakeholder interviews, it provides an overview on how various actors problematized the EU, its Member States, and their policymaking and political targets in the realm of migration and asylum. Early research results show a widely shared discontent over the EU’s asylum system.
Read MoreIvan Josipovic, Ursula Reeger | Austrian Academy of Sciences (OEAW)
This report deals with different aspects of integration of asylum seekers and beneficiaries of international protection in Austria. A series of interviews with these groups (conducted in 2018) reveals that their primary concerns relate to the two integration dimensions of labour market participation and language acquisition. Following a period of legal limbo during the asylum procedure…
Read MoreIvan 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.
Read MoreIvan 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.
Read MoreIvan Josipovic & Ursula Reeger | Austrian Academy of Sciences
Between 2011 and 2018, legal changes in the realm of border management and migration controls in Austria extended policing capacities and activities targeting irregular migration, with measures arriving in tight conjunction with restrictions at all stages of the asylum procedure. Regarding pre-entry measures, cooperation on cross-border policing with neighbouring countries such as Hungary and Italy was intensified.
Read MoreJosipovic, Ivan; Reeger, Ursula | Austrian Academy of Sciences
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