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Conflicting Conceptualisations of Europeanisation: GERMANY Country Report

Alexander K. Nagel | Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

This report explores how recent processes of immigration have changed discourses about “Europe” in Germany. It aims at a) capturing conflicting Europeanisation in the German context and to aid theory-construction by adding to a comparative picture, b) developing a perspective on the role of media in domestic audience-making in this context and c) understanding how the above impacts on different professional audiences, including the stakeholders assembled within the RESPOND project.

Europeanisation ConflictRESPOND Horizon2020October 23, 2020Göttingen University, GermanyComment

Integration Policies, Practices & Experiences: IRAQ Country Report

William Kh. Warda, Hamed Shihab Almaffraji | Hammurabi Human Rights Organization

This report focuses on a less-researched topic, namely the integration of refugees and displaced populations in Iraq in the period 2011-2017. It elaborates on the extent to which policies, programs and practices at various local, regional and national levels are consistent with the country's general policy and integration plans and are compatible with the norms of international law concerning integration and human rights standards. The report also highlights the factors and reasons that impede the social integration of refugees and displaced populations into Iraqi society, and reflects the prevailing understanding of “integration” among decision-makers, local and regional stakeholders, and refugees.

Integration PoliciesRESPOND Horizon2020September 9, 2020Hammurabi Human Rights Organization, IraqComment

Border Experiences and Practices of Refugees - Comparative Report

Sabine Hess - Göttingen University | Vasileios Petrogiannis - Uppsala University

This report analyzes how refugees are impacted by border-management policies and migration controls, and how they experience these policies and respond to them. It is based on 507 interviews with refugee migrants who made their way to Lebanon, Turkey, as well as a number of European countries between 2013 and 2018, being conducted by the eleven national Respond Teams. The empirical data not only allows us to reconstruct the effects of the existing border regimes on the lives of those who are their main object and target; we also outline how this analytical perspective on the practices and experiences of refugee migrants also enriches our understanding of what a “border” is today, and how it has been practiced by the respective nation-states in recent years.

Consequences & ResponsesRESPOND Horizon2020September 1, 2020Göttingen University, Germany, Uppsala University, SwedenComment

Integration Policies, Practices & Experiences: POLAND Country Report

Karolina Sobczak-Szelc, Marta Pachocka, Konrad Pędziwiatr, Justyna Szałańska | University of Warsaw

This report focuses on integration policies towards beneficiaries of international protection in Poland in the period of 2011-2019. It also sheds light on the experiences of integration of the beneficiaries of such protection. The findings of our research indicate that the case of Poland is characterised by lack of official integration strategy. Several legal acts deal with different aspects of integration policy (narrowed to those concerning the beneficiaries of international protection) yet to a varying degree and not specifically devoted to it. In general, beneficiaries of international protection are granted equal rights with Polish citizens in the areas of access to labour market, education, healthcare, and housing.

Integration PoliciesRESPOND Horizon2020August 31, 2020University of Warsaw, PolandComment

Following the refugee relocation scheme: Ideological interpretations of interstate shared responsibility in Romania

Raluca Bejan | Dalhousie University

The number of irregular migrant entries within the European Union (EU) increased by 546% in 2015. Sea arrivals totaled 1,015,078 in 2015, 362,753 in 2016, and 172,301 in 2017. No policy has adequately addressed this humanitarian crisis, partially because of the deep ideological divisions within the EU regarding the implementation of the 2015 refugee relocation scheme.

Consequences & ResponsesRESPOND Horizon2020August 7, 2020Dalhousie University, RomaniaComment

Refugee Protection Regimes: Comparative Report

Ela Gökalp Aras, Zeynep Şahin Mencütek - Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul | Evangelia Papatzani, Nadina Leivaditi, Electra Petracou - University of the Aegean

This comparative report is based on the RESPOND country reports [deliverable D3.1] that discusses the developments regarding legislation, policy measures and practices on refugee protection, but most importantly the implementation aspect in ten countries covered by the project (Austria, Germany, Greece, Iraq, Italy, Lebanon, Poland, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom) for the 2011-2019 period. This report aims to provide a comparative analysis of refugee protection, emphasising the implementation aspect as drawn from the experiences and perceptions of meso and micro level actors. In doing so, the report offers analytical insights for evaluating the implications of the dynamics of refugee protection, which has undergone many changes since 2011.

Protection Regimes, Comparative ReportRESPOND Horizon2020August 7, 2020Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, University of the Aegean, Austria, Iraq, Italy, Poland, Lebanon, Germany, Greece, Sweden, Turkey, UKComment

Fundamental Rights, Accountability and Transparency in European Governance of Migration: The Case of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency Frontex

Lena Karamanidou - Glasgow Caledonian University | Bernd Kasparek - Göttingen University

This report analyses and interrogates the accountability and transparency regime of the European Union’s border agency Frontex. Frontex was established as a European Union agency in the field of border, migration and asylum policies in 2004 and began operating in 2005. Over the last 15 years, the mandate of the agency, originally tasked with coordinating the operational management of the European Union’s external border through support to the EU’s member states, has expanded significantly.

Consequences & ResponsesRESPOND Horizon2020July 31, 2020Glasgow Caledonian University, UK, Göttingen University, GermanyComment

Between Tokenism and Self-Representation: Refugee-Led Advocacy and Inclusion in International Refugee Policy

Haqqi Bahram | Linköping University

There have been increasing efforts at the international level to make migrants and refugees’ participation and inclusion in policy more meaningful. Yet, little is known on their perspectives about these possibilities and the outcomes of these efforts. Drawing on the case of one refugee-led initiative, the Network for Refugee Voice (NRV), in attending the drafting process of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR), this paper describes the refugee-led advocacy approach to attaining meaningful participation and representation on high policy platforms, including the United Nations organizations.

Consequences & ResponsesRESPOND Horizon2020July 30, 2020Linköping University, SwedenComment

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