Sociedad civil

This category refers to the different actors that form part of civil society. Civil society is often referred to as the ‘third sector’, along with the government and the private sector. Civil society includes a wide array of organisations, such as civic associations, community and grassroots groups (i.e. migrant groups, anti-poverty groups), non-governmental,  charitable,or  faith-based organisations, volunteer groups, etc. The results displayed under this category refer to actors mentioned and their role and involvement with regard to migration issues.

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Political Protest in Asylum and Deportation. An Introduction

Authors Sieglinde Rosenberger
Book Title Protest Movements in Asylum and Deportation
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Asylum Policies and Protests in Austria

Authors Verena Stern, Nina Merhaut
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2 Book Chapter

Asylum in Germany: The Making of the ‘Crisis’ and the Role of Civil Society

Authors Sophie Hinger
Year 2016
Journal Name Human Geography
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3 Journal Article

Protests Revisited: Political Configurations, Political Culture and Protest Impact

Authors Helen Schwenken, Gianni D’Amato
Book Title Protest Movements in Asylum and Deportation
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4 Book Chapter

Empowerment in the Asylum-seeker Regime? The Roles of Policies, the Non-profit Sector and Refugee Community Organizations in Hong Kong

Authors Pui Yan Flora Lau
Year 2019
Journal Name Journal of Refugee Studies
Citations (WoS) 12
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Von der Flüchtlingshilfe zur Fluchthilfe. Auseinandersetzungen um Flüchtlingsschutz im deutschen Migrationsregime und die Rolle zivilgesellschaftlicher Initiativen

Principal investigator Helen Schwenken (Principal Investigator)
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Das Forschungsprojekt "Von der Flüchtlingshilfe zur Fluchthilfe" geht aus von der Problematik des Asylparadoxes und dem Umgang zivilgesellschaftlicher Akteure mit seinen Konsequenzen: Zwar gelten in Deutschland das Grundrecht auf Asyl und die völkerrechtlichen Prinzipien des Flüchtlingsschutzes und viele Staaten gewährleisten Flüchtlingsrechte. Um diese zu erlangen, müssen die meisten Schutzsuchenden allerdings mangels legaler Einreisemöglichkeiten illegal Grenzen überqueren und sich in riskante Situationen begeben. Insbesondere durch die sich in den Jahren 2015 und 2016 zuspitzende Lage entwickeln sich in Deutschland vermehrt gesellschaftliche Auseinandersetzungen um den Zugang zu Flüchtlingsschutz. Das Forschungsprojekt analysiert diese Auseinandersetzungen mit Fokus auf das Engagement zivilgesellschaftlicher Initiativen für die sichere Einreise von Flüchtenden. Daher geht das Projekt der Forschungsfrage nach, welche Handlungsansätze und Strategien zivilgesellschaftliche Initiativen im Kontext von Migrations- und Fluchtregimen entwickeln, um sich angesichts beschränkter Einreisewege und humanitärer Notlagen für einen Zugang zum Schutz für Geflüchtete einzusetzen und Fluchthilfe zu leisten.
Year 2018
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“We Are Here to Stay” – Refugee Struggles in Germany Between Unity and Division

Authors Helge Schwiertz, Abimbola Odugbesan
Book Title Protest Movements in Asylum and Deportation
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Beiträge der Zivilgesellschaft zur Bewältigung der Flüchtlingskrise – Leistungen und Lernchancen

Authors Ruth Simsa, Maian Auf, Sara-Maria Bratke, ...
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„Gäbe es die Zivilgesellschaft nicht, wäre das gesamte Asylsystem mittlerweile zusammengebrochen“ (I 17, Führungskraft, Nov.15). Die Flüchtlingskrise hat gezeigt, dass die Zivilgesellschaft eine wichtige Rolle bei der Bewältigung von Herausforderungen der Immigration und Integration spielt. Im Herbst und Winter 2015 wäre es ohne zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement in Österreich zu einer humanitären Katastrophe gekommen. Die Zivilgesellschaft hat in dieser Zeit besonders hohe Beiträge geleistet, sei es in der Erstversorgung, in der Organisation von Flüchtlingsunterkünften, in Integrationsmaßnahmen und in der Mobilisierung und Koordination freiwilliger Hilfe. Zudem haben zivilgesellschaftliche AkteurInnen auch die öffentliche Meinung mitgeprägt und die Vernetzung von Freiwilligen befördert. Es ist davon auszugehen, dass Integration ohne weitere Beiträge der Zivilgesellschaft und ihrer Organisationen auch in Zukunft nicht möglich sein wird. In dem vorliegenden Projekt wurde daher folgenden Fragen nachgegangen:  Was hat die Zivilgesellschaft im Herbst 2015 zur Bewältigung der sogenannten Flüchtlingskrise geleistet und wie wurde dies erreicht?  Wie wurde die Arbeit der Zivilgesellschaft von syrischen Flüchtlingen wahrgenommen?  Was kann daraus für die Bewältigung weiterer Herausforderungen der Immigration und Integration gelernt werden? Alle genannten Probleme bzw. Lernchancen müssen vor dem Hintergrund der Ausnahmeund Krisensituation sowie der hohen Leistungen der Zivilgesellschaft betrachtet werden. Eine große Herausforderung für die Organisationen waren Informationsdefizite und sich laufend ändernde Rahmenbedingungen. Auch die gesellschaftliche Polarisierung, Rechtsunsicherheiten bzw. die Nichteinhaltung von Gesetzen durch politische Instanzen und Defizite der wohlfahrtsstaatlichen Aufgabenübernahme waren belastend. Zum Teil hat die Zivilgesellschaft Aufgaben des Staates übernommen. Wo im Auftrag der öffentlichen Hand gearbeitet wurde, gab es häufig mangelnde finanzielle Planungssicherheit und späte Zahlungen für geleistete Arbeit. Die Situation der AsylwerberInnen war aufgrund der mangelnden politischen Abstimmung bzw. Bereitschaft zusätzlich belastet. Das Spektrum der angebotenen Leistungen war extrem breit, neben der Erstversorgung und Akuthilfe umfasst es die Organisation von Wohnraum, Weiterbildungen oder Freizeitgestaltung, Kinderbetreuung, Übersetzungsarbeit, Rechtsberatung, Unterstützung bei Behördenwegen, gesundheitliche Versorgung und vieles mehr. Die Bereitschaft zu freiwilligem Engagement nahm im Herbst 2015 ein Hierzulande nie dagewesenes Ausmaß an. Freiwillige haben sich in nahezu allen Bereichen der Flüchtlingsarbeit engagiert. Viele Freiwillige wurden selbstorganisiert und spontan tätig, ein Großteil allerdings half im Rahmen bestehender NPOs oder neugegründeter Vereine. Für die zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisationen war die Mitarbeit dieser vielen Menschen absolut notwendig, um das hohe Leistungsniveau anzubieten. Mit viel Einsatz und Empathie wurde nicht nur ein hohes Maß an Hilfe geleistet, sondern damit auch ein politisches Statement für Menschlichkeit und Toleranz gesetzt. Das Management der vielen HelferInnen war unter den gegebenen dynamischen Rahmenbedingungen allerdings auch eine Herausforderung. So war eine vorausschauende Bedarfsplanung aufgrund externer Faktoren, wie der Öffnung bzw. Schließung von Grenzen oder der Bereitstellung von Unterkünften und Transportmöglichkeiten kaum möglich. Insgesamt betrachtet haben es die NPOs geschafft, sehr flexibel auf Anforderungen zu reagieren. 2 Die Mobilisierung und Gewinnung von HelferInnen hat über alle Organisationen hinweg größtenteils gut, schnell und unbürokratisch funktioniert, u.a. mittels intensiver und effektiver Nutzung von Social-Media. So konnten die Leistungen der Freiwilligen trotz eines Rückgangs der Engagementbereitschaft im Laufe des Winters aufrecht erhalten bleiben. Aufgrund des hohen und schwer planbaren Bedarfs wurden breite, unspezifische Maßnahmen zur Gewinnung von Freiwilligen gesetzt. Dadurch konnten ausreichend HelferInnen mobilisiert werden, vielfach kam es aber auch zu einem temporären Überangebot an Freiwilligen. In der akuten Phase gab es oft nur eingeschränkte Möglichkeiten zur Selektion von Freiwilligen, es waren kaum Auswahlverfahren möglich und auch die Möglichkeiten zur Orientierung und Einschulung der HelferInnen waren begrenzt und es kam mitunter zu einem Mis-match zwischen Tätigkeiten und Ansprüchen der HelferInnen. Zu Beginn der Akutphase im September fehlten oft klare Kompetenzaufteilungen zwischen Haupt- und Ehrenamtlichen. Andererseits entstanden daraus große Spielräume für die Freiwilligen, die sich vielfach selbst organisierten, Strukturen aufbauten und sich in einem Mix aus Erfahrenem und Neuem selbst einschulten, koordinierten und in ihrer Arbeit ergänzten. Häufig waren diese Spielräume auch der Ausgangspunkt für die Gründung neuer Initiativen. Die Übertragung von Verantwortung an die Freiwilligen hat v.a. dann gut funktioniert, wenn Organisationen klare Ziele und Ansprechpersonen definierten. Weiters wichtig waren Information, Feedback-Kanäle und die Einbindung der Freiwilligen in die Gestaltung der Tätigkeit. War dies nicht gegeben, kam es zu Überforderung, Frustrationen oder auch Konflikten mit bestehenden oder neu eingeführten Ablauf- und Entscheidungsstrukturen. Eine weitere Herausforderung stellte die hohe Fluktuation sowohl unter Freiwilligen als auch z.T. unter den hauptamtlichen KoordinatorInnen dar. Diese erschwerte die Etablierung von strukturierten Kommunikationskanälen und die Informationsweitergabe und führte zu Ineffizienzen in der Ablauforganisation und Ärger bei manchen Freiwilligen. Dies betraf eher etablierte NPOs. Basisinitiativen, die ihre Strukturen um aktuelle Ziele formten, konnten teilweise sehr rasch funktionale Kommunikationskanäle aufbauen. Sowohl Freiwillige als auch Hauptamtliche waren oft mit enormen Belastungen konfrontiert. Maßnahmen gegen Überlastung und Supervisionsangebote und sonstige Formen der Unterstützung waren daher für alle MitarbeiterInnen wichtig. Sie wurden sehr geschätzt, und hätten früher und stärker angeboten werden können. Neben der Tätigkeit selbst trugen auch Anerkennung in (sozialen) Medien der Organisationen und in den Teams zur Motivation bei. Es gab große Unterschiede in der Struktur und Kultur der beteiligten Organisationen. Hier ist ein Kontinuum beobachtbar, entlang der Differenz Hierarchie/Struktur versus Flexibilität/Offenheit. Die eher hierarchisch organisierten Einsatzorganisationen konnten schnelle Entscheidungen treffen, rasch mit ähnlichen Organisationen kooperieren und sie konnten auf die für Katastrophenfälle vorbereiteten Strukturen zurückgreifen. Selbst etablierte Hilfsorganisationen mussten diese erst durch learning by doing aufbauen. Neu gegründete Basisinitiativen wiederum hatten den Vorteil von Flexibilität und Offenheit für spontane Entscheidungen. Für manche Freiwilligen waren diese Strukturen motivierend, andere fühlten sich in klareren Strukturen wohler. In fast allen Organisationen wurde aber von strukturellen Änderungen berichtet, so waren Einsatzorganisationen mit der Notwendigkeit flexiblerer Bereiche konfrontiert, Basisinitiativen machten häufig eine vergleichsweise rasche Entwicklung zu stärkeren Strukturen durch. Die Organisationen haben generell Herausforderungen des sehr raschen Größenwachstums und der Notwendigkeit organisationaler Flexibilität überraschend gut bewältigt. Es wurde Mehrarbeit bewältigt, rasch neues Personal eingestellt und eingesetzt, Regeln bewusst zeitweise außer Kraft gesetzt, aber gleichzeitig notwendige Strukturen bewahrt. Fast alle Organisationen berichten von deutlichen Lernschritten. 3 Kooperationen innerhalb der Zivilgesellschaft funktionierten grundsätzlich gut, in der Regel umso besser, je ähnlicher die PartnerInnen einander waren. Die Kooperationen zwischen strukturell unterschiedlichen AkteurInnen war zum Teil schwieriger, hier gab es unterschiedliche Standards in Bezug auf Verlässlichkeit, Reaktionsgeschwindigkeit, Spielraum für Einzelpersonen etc. Zur Kooperation mit der öffentlichen Hand gab es unterschiedliche Aussagen, z.T. wurde diese als erfolgreich beschrieben, z.T. aber auch kritisiert, v.a. die Nicht-Wahrnehmung von Aufgaben seitens der öffentlichen Hand betreffend. Die Einrichtung der Stelle eines Flüchtlingskoordinators durch die Stadt Wien wurde sehr positiv wahrgenommen, sie unterstützte die Bündelung des Hilfsangebots, v.a. durch die zentrale Informationsstelle. Wenngleich die Arbeit von vielen als sehr befriedigend wahrgenommen wurde, so war sie auch extrem belastend. Zum einen waren viele Hauptamtliche wie Freiwillige zu lange im „Notfallmodus“, sie arbeiteten am Limit. Es gab Freiwillige, die für den Einsatz ihren Job gekündigt oder ihr Studium aufgegeben hatten, Engagement im Ausmaß von 15h oder mehr pro Tag war keine Seltenheit. Auch seelische Belastungen wurden von fast allen wahrgenommen, deutlich mehr allerdings von Personen, die für diese Art von Tätigkeit nicht ausgebildet waren. Die befragten syrischen Flüchtlinge schätzen die vergleichsweise gute Behandlung in Österreich, die Leistungen der Zivilgesellschaft und die soziale Absicherung – sofern sie bereits in deren Genuss kommen. Gleichzeitig berichten alle von erheblichen Problemen, v.a. in Bezug auf lange und ungewisse Verfahren, die Situation und Versorgungslage in Notquartieren, Deutschkurse, Schwierigkeiten bei der Wohnungs- und Arbeitssuche nach Erhalt des Asylbescheides. Manche sind auch enttäuscht, da sie höhere Erwartungen an Österreich hatten, nicht zuletzt aufgrund falscher Versprechungen durch SchlepperInnen. Generell war das Anwachsen zivilgesellschaftlichen Engagements positiv für das Image der Zivilgesellschaft und der NPOs, für das Selbstbild und die persönliche Weiterentwicklung vieler Beteiligter, für Kontakte zwischen Einheimischen und Asylsuchenden und natürlich auch für die Aufrechterhaltung der Versorgung. Gesellschaftspolitisch ist es dennoch kritisch zu beurteilen, dass quantitative und qualitative Standards dem Wollen und Können privater AkteurInnen überlassen wurden. Verantwortungsbewusste Menschen haben somit auf eigene (zeitliche und materielle) Kosten die Lücke geschlossen, die der Staat gelassen hatte. Eine professionelle und mit Ressourcen abgesicherte Grundversorgung durch die öffentliche Hand und NPOs könnte Sicherheit stiften. Der Zivilgesellschaft bliebe Spielraum für Aufgaben der Integration, u.a. der Schaffung eines engmaschigen Netzes von direkten Kontakten zwischen den Zugewanderten und der lokalen Bevölkerung. Hier kann auch eine wichtige Rolle für größere NPOs liegen, nämlich die Unterstützung lokaler, basisorientierter Initiativen, die Integrationsarbeit leisten. „Im Moment (Anm. November 2015) habe ich das Gefühl, ganz Österreich ist Zivilgesellschaft. Der Staat hat sich ganz zurückgezogen, überzeichnet gesagt“ (I 17).
Year 2016
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Protest Against the Reception of Asylum Seekers in Austria

Authors Sieglinde Rosenberger, Miriam Haselbacher
Book Title Protest Movements in Asylum and Deportation
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9 Book Chapter

Who Ought to Stay? Asylum Policy and Protest Culture in Switzerland

Authors Dina Bader
Book Title Protest Movements in Asylum and Deportation
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10 Book Chapter

Crackdown on NGOs assisting refugees and other migrants

Authors Lina Lina Vosyliūtė, Carmine Conte, Migration Policy Group (MPG), ...
Year 2018
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11 Policy Brief

Volunteering for Refugees in Europe: Civil Society, Solidarity, and Forced Migration along the Balkan Route amid the Failure of the Common European Asylum System

Principal investigator J. Olaf Kleist (Principal Investigator), Serhat Karakayalı (Principal Investigator)
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Amid rising numbers of asylum seekers arriving in the EU and migrating along the Balkan route in 2015, state, EU and traditional NGO institutions failed to adequately receive, register and care for the new arrivals. Instead, volunteers stepped in to provide humanitarian assistance. They are locals as well as citizens from other European countries who engage with the crisis for a variety of reasons, in a range of contexts and with varying consequences. This research project will examine personal motives, social structures and political conditions of volunteering for refugees in countries along the so-called Balkan route: in Greece, in Slovenia, and in former Yugoslav countries. Based on political process tracing, sociological-ethnographic observations and semi-structured interviews with volunteers, officials, locals and refugees we will devise country reports that will create the basis for a comparative study. Thus, we will interrogate whether we can witness in this refugee policies ’from below’ the creation of a particular, pro-immigration and human rights based European civil society or social movement.
Year 2016
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Assessing the Civil Society’s Role in Refugee Integration in Turkey: NGO-R as a New Typology

Authors Ulas Sunata, Salih Tosun
Year 2018
Journal Name Journal of Refugee Studies
Citations (WoS) 46
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13 Journal Article

Speaking Truth to Power? Why Civil Society, Beyond Academia, Remains Marginal in EU Migration Policy

Authors Ann Singleton
Book Title Integrating Immigrants in Europe
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14 Book Chapter

Research-Policy Dialogues in Austria

Authors Maren Borkert
Book Title Integrating Immigrants in Europe
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15 Book Chapter

The combination of 'insider' and 'outsider' strategies in VSO-government partnerships: the relationship between Refugee Action and the Home Office in the UK

Authors Derek McGhee, Claire Bennett, Sarah Walker
Year 2016
Journal Name VOLUNTARY SECTOR REVIEW
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16 Journal Article

Contesting Flexible Solidarity: Secular and Religious Support for Refugees in Hungary

Authors Elżbieta M. Goździak
Year 2023
Book Title Debating Religion and Forced Migration Entanglements
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17 Book Chapter

Policing the mobility society : the effects of EU-anti-migrant smuggling policies on humanitarianism

Authors Sergio CARRERA, Jennifer ALLSOPP, Lina VOSYLIUTE
Year 2018
Journal Name International Journal of Migration and Border Studies
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18 Journal Article

Venue-Shopping and the Role of Non-governmental Organisations in the Development of the European Union Asylum Policy

Authors Christian Kaunert, Sarah Léonard, Ulrike Hoffmann
Year 2013
Journal Name Comparative Migration Studies
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19 Journal Article

Welfare State Supporter and Civil Society Activist: Church of Sweden in the “Refugee Crisis” 2015

Authors Jonas Idestrom, Stig Linde
Year 2019
Journal Name Social Inclusion
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20 Journal Article

Policing humanitarianism : EU policies against human smuggling and their impact on civil society

Authors Sergio CARRERA, Valsamis MITSILEGAS, Jennifer ALLSOPP, ...
Year 2019
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21 Book

Organising Somalian, Congolese and Rwandan Migrants in a Time of Xenophobia in South Africa: Empirical and Methodological Reflections

Authors Denys Uwimpuhwe, Greg Ruiters
Year 2018
Journal Name Journal of International Migration and Integration
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22 Journal Article

Perspectives on the European Border Regime: Mobilization, Contestation and the Role of Civil Society

Authors Eva Youkhana, Ove Sutter
Year 2017
Journal Name Social Inclusion
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23 Journal Article

Solidarity with vulnerable migrants during and beyond the state of crisis

Authors Alessandro Mazzola, Mattias De Backer
Year 2021
Journal Name Culture, Practice & Europeanization
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24 Journal Article

Homeless or refugee? Civil Society Actors and the (un)making of internal borders in an Italian frontier town

Authors Paola Bonizzoni, Iraklis Dimitriadis
Year 2024
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
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25 Journal Article

Challenging Policies and Contextualizing Rights: Civil Society Litigation and Refugee and Asylum Seeker Governance in South African Cities

Authors James (Jay) G. Johnson
Year 2022
Journal Name Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies
Citations (WoS) 1
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26 Journal Article

Refugee Policy in Brazil (1995–2010): Achievements and Challenges

Authors Julia Bertino Moreira
Year 2017
Journal Name Refugee Survey Quarterly
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27 Journal Article

Civil Society and Social Integration of Asylum Seekers: The 'Strength of Weak Ties' and the Dynamics of 'Strategic Action Fields'

Authors Lennart Olsson, Anne Jerneck, Claudia Fry, ...
Year 2023
Citations (WoS) 1
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28 Journal Article

Resettlement Policies: Two Different Models

Authors Östen Wahlbeck
Book Title Kurdish Diasporas
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29 Book Chapter

Introduction

Authors Julia Dahlvik
Book Title Inside Asylum Bureaucracy: Organizing Refugee Status Determination in Austria
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30 Book Chapter

Counting Migrants' Deaths at the Border: From Civil Society Counterstatistics to (Inter)Governmental Recuperation

Authors Charles Heller, Antoine Pecoud
Year 2020
Journal Name AMERICAN BEHAVIORAL SCIENTIST
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31 Journal Article

Living as immigrant in Germany: an analysis of civil society organizations leaders’ perspectives

Authors Sabahattin Tekingunduz, Mualla Yilmaz, Hilal Altundal
Year 2021
Journal Name International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care
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32 Journal Article

Cities as sites of refuge and resistance

Authors Margit Mayer
Year 2018
Journal Name European Urban and Regional Studies
Citations (WoS) 7
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34 Journal Article

The Borders of Migrant and Refugee Activism in South Africa

Authors Kudakwashe Vanyoro, Kudakwashe Vanyoro
Year 2024
Journal Name Journal of Refugee Studies
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35 Journal Article

De-Bordering Solidarity: Civil Society Actors Assisting Refused Asylum Seekers in Small Cities

Authors Iraklis Dimitriadis, Maurizio Ambrosini
Year 2022
Journal Name Journal of Refugee Studies
Citations (WoS) 10
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36 Journal Article

Flüchtlingsmigration und zivilgesellschaftliche Solidarität im Sozialstaat

Principal investigator Dietmar Süß (Principal Investigator ), Cornelius Torp (Principal Investigator )
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Untergräbt die Massenzuwanderung von Flüchtlingen und anderen Immigranten die solidarische Grundlage des Sozialstaats? Gegen den in der gegenwärtigen Debatte vorherrschenden Krisendiskurs halten wir es für eine offene und nur historisch zu beantwortende Frage, was sozialstaatliche Solidarität bedeutet, wie weit sie reicht und für wen sie gilt. Das Projekt will aus einer zeithistorischen Perspektive klären, wie sich der bundesdeutsche Sozialstaat und das ihm zugrundeliegende Solidaritätsverständnis angesichts unterschiedlicher Migrationsbewegungen von den späten 1970er Jahren bis heute verändert hat. Dabei richtet sich der Blick besonders auf die Prägekraft zivilgesellschaftlicher Akteure und freier Wohlfahrtsverbände. Die These lautet: Es waren diese zivilgesellschaftlichen Akteure, die gegen die verbreitete Sozialstaatskrisenrhetorik die Idee sozialpolitischer Solidarität "von unten" neu und transnational zu interpretieren versuchten. Originell ist das Projekt, weil es die dominierende politik- und sozialwissenschaftliche Sozialstaatsforschung in dreierlei Hinsicht herausfordert: durch seine genuin historisch-kultur-wissenschaftliche Perspektive, durch die Frage nach der Innovationskraft zivilgesellschaftlicher Akteure im Transformationsprozess sozialstaatlicher Ordnung und durch die Verbindung von praxeologischen und diskursgeschichtlichen Zugriffsweisen. Ausgehend von der Vorstellung, dass "Solidarität" zu den entscheidenden normativen Ressourcen des Wohlfahrtsstaats gehört, akzentuiert das Projekt dabei einen Begriff, der - ebenso wie "Gerechtigkeit", "Sicherheit" und "Freiheit" - zu den zentralen Wertideen der Moderne gehört, aber bislang kaum Gegenstand historischer Forschung geworden ist.
Year 2019
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Humanitarian Alliances: Local and International NGO Partnerships and the Iraqi Refugee Crisis

Authors Kathryn Libal, Scott Harding
Year 2011
Journal Name Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies
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39 Journal Article

Transatlantic Migrant Democracy Dialogue

Principal investigator Migration Policy Group (MPG) ()
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The Transatlantic Migrant Democracy Dialogue (TMDD) is a partnership that trains and connects immigrant and refugee leaders in the US and Europe to enable them to organise and build alliances with other civil society movements.
Year 2016
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Urbanization, informal governance and refugee integration in Egypt

Authors Kelsey P. Norman
Year 2021
Journal Name Globalizations
Citations (WoS) 1
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41 Journal Article

Social Response to Europe’s Refugee Infl ux: Some Theoretical Considerations

Year 2017
Journal Name Studia Migracyjne - Przegląd Polonijny
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42 Journal Article

It’s About the Power of Little People’: the UK Community Sponsorship Scheme, a New Space for Solidarity, Civic Engagement and Activism

Authors Marisol Reyes-Soto, Marisol Reyes-Soto
Year 2023
Journal Name Journal of International Migration and Integration
Citations (WoS) 1
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43 Journal Article

Civil Society

Authors Asteris Huliaras
Year 2020
Journal Name The Oxford Handbook of Modern Greek Politics
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44 Journal Article

Migrant Advocacy under Austerity: Transforming Solidarity in the Greek-Refugee Regime

Authors Katherine L. Pendakis
Year 2020
Journal Name Journal of Refugee Studies
Citations (WoS) 1
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46 Journal Article

Healthy Migrants in an Unhealthy City? The Effects of Time on the Health of Migrants Living in Deprived Areas of Glasgow

Authors Ade Kearns, Elise Whitley, Matt Egan, ...
Year 2016
Journal Name Journal of International Migration and Integration
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47 Journal Article

Politics of Subsidiarity in Refugee Reception: The Case of Civil Society in Turkey

Authors Buke Bosnak
Year 2021
Journal Name Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies
Citations (WoS) 3
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48 Journal Article

Mobile sociology1

Authors John Urry
Year 2010
Journal Name The British Journal of Sociology
Citations (WoS) 34
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49 Journal Article

Against Abandonment Activist-Humanitarian Responses to LGBT Refugees in Athens and Beirut

Authors Ali Reda, Philip Proudfoot
Year 2020
Journal Name Journal of Refugee Studies
Citations (WoS) 3
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50 Journal Article

State, Refugees, and Civil Society in Turkey: Transformation Under Control

Authors Birce ALTIOK
Year 2024
Journal Name Alternatif Politika
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51 Journal Article

“It’s That Kind of Place Here”: Solidarity, Place-Making and Civil Society Response to the 2015 Refugee Crisis in Wales, UK

Authors Taulant Guma, Michael Woods, Sophie Yarker, ...
Year 2019
Journal Name Social Inclusion
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52 Journal Article

Unsettle and be unsettled

Authors Maria Charlotte Rast
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53 Journal Article

Challenges to immigrant associations and NGOs in contemporary Greece

Authors Apostolos G. Papadopoulos, Christos Chalkias, Loukia-Maria Fratsea
Year 2013
Journal Name MIGRATION LETTERS
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54 Journal Article

Asylum, refugees, and IDPS in Russia : challenges to social cohesion

Authors Vladimir MUKOMEL
Description
The resolution of problems for asylum seekers, refugees, and IDPs encounters resistance, due to the cautious attitude of Federal government authorities, state governments, local governments, and the host population. The prevalence of a xenophobic attitude, pressure of non-governmental organizations that work with asylum seekers, and the weakness of civil society institutions create a distorted picture of the unimportance of this contingent’s problems, and weakens the potential readiness of the government and society for emergency situations related to the flow of asylum-seekers
Year 2013
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55 Report

Future EU funding to support the integration of refugees and migrants

Authors Alexander Wolffhardt
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Funding support through EU programmes and their objectives is the EU’s main lever to promote the integration of migrants and refugees. Next to the soft law embodied in policy guidelines like the Common Basic Principles of immigrant integration, it is the amounts, binding provisions and concrete spending rules of instruments such as the Asylum-, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) or the structural funds including the European Social Fund (ESF) that define EU policy and a joint European approach in the integration domain. In a number of Member States, EU funds are even the sole or nearly only source of support for integration measures and -policies, rendering them crucially important for the outlook and opportunities of migrants and refugees in many places across Europe. Against this background, the proposals and negotiations on the upcoming Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), i.e. the 2021 to 2027 EU programme and funding period, have become the focal point of the EU integration debate since 2018. Local level integration actors including cities and civil society organisations are key stakeholders in these policy debates, whose oucomes will be decisive for the availability of means both for early and longer-term integration, and on local level as much as for mainstreaming integration across all relevant policy areas. This report synthesizes previous ReSOMA briefs in the area of integration that have focused on the unfolding MFF debate. Following an overview of the 2018 Commission proposals which set out scope and structure of the future EU instruments (chapter 1.2), it presents twelve policy debates related to the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of EU support for integratin and their stickicking points from a local level and civil society perspective (chapter 2). Partly refering to the discourse responding to recent policy trends and how they became incorporated in the Commission proposals, partly referring to long-standing debates between stakeholders and EU institutions, the chapter offers an abridged version of key topics of debate as identified in the previous ReSOMA Discussion Briefs on ‘Cities as providers of services to * By Alexander Wollfhardt, Migration Policy Group 4 migrant populations’, ‘Sustaining mainstreaming of immigrant integration’ and ‘The social inclusion of undocumented migrants’. Against the background of these conversations and controversies, stakeholders came forward with numerous proposals to improve and amend the Commission proposals to better address their concerns. The European Parliament in 2018 has been the key arena of decision-making towards the 2021 to 2027 MFF, with MEPs able to amend the proposed legislation based on the concerns driving the policy controversies and offering stakeholders the opportunity to advocate for their own proposals. Chapter 3 shows how the suggestions for alternative solutions brought forward converge around four mayor policy options for the future of EU spending on integration:  Adequate funding – to ensure sufficient and flexible spending on integration according to changing needs across all Member States  Meaningful needs assessment – to base AM(I)F national programming and Partnership Agreements on structured and standalone assessment of needs and challenges  Mainstreamed, longer-term policies – to promote comprehensive integration policies with a long-term orientation and mainstreaming them on Member State and EU level  Broader participation – to ensure funds can be accessed by civil society and local/ regional authorities, and that these actors are fully involved in the funds’ governance For each of these options main proposals are listed as voiced by stakeholder organisations in the field, including the ReSOMA partners ECRE, EUROCITIES, PICUM and Social Platform. The chapter also shows, in each of the options, how the European Parliament has amended the Commission proposals, thus illustrating the uptake by Parliament of solutions advocated for by stakeholders. References to the previous ReSOMA Policy Options Briefs on ‘High levels of EU support for migrant integration, implemented by civil society and local authorities’ and ‘Comprehensive and mainstreamed, longer-term support for the integration of migrants’ point to more in-depth information on the evidence base supporting these proposals, the details of the various stakeholders positions and a mapping of the EP amendments. Chapter 4.1 sheds light on the state of play as of spring 2019, with the EP positions on the key EU instruments all decided before the EP elections and clarified at time when MFF negotiations are gearing up in the intergovernmental Council arena. Compromises among Member States and with the European Parliament are expected to be reached in late 2019/early 2020. Next to highlighting current debate among governments, the chapter stresses the importance of the preparations taking place already now on Member State level in terms of programming and priority setting. How the national AM(I)F and ESF+ programmes are shaping up even now, in advance of final EU-level decisions on the scope of the instruments, is crucially important for the future availability of EU means for integration support and the possibilities of key actors to benefit from 5 programmes. Across all levels, governments, the Commission, European Parliament and integration stakeholder are called upon to act accordingly, to ensure full exploitation of the new instruments’ potential for integration support, complementarity in programme planning, comprehensive compliance with the partnership principle and a need-based approach to the services funded. Drawing the consequence from the lack of realtime evidence on the actual uptake of EU instruments supporting integration and on the practice of partnershipled implementation, the Synthetic Report culminates in a proposal for a new, independent EU-wide quality monitoring mechanism (chapter 4.2). Led by civil society and local level stakeholders across the EU, the mechanism would provide for ongoing, regular monitoring of how the partnership principle is observed, national programmes are implemented, different funds are used, and of the quality of coordination and coherence among the instruments. Quality assessment of content and effectiveness of projects funded would improve the evidence base for future AM(I)F midterm reviews and allocation decisions for the second tranches of the fund. The new mechanism would thus aim to generate the necessary knowledge for pushing towards  compliance with the partnership principle,  purposeful use of AM(I)F and structural (ESF+) funds to support integration,  coordination and collaboration among the implementing authorities,  robust mid-term review procedures. This recommendation to set up a new, enhanced quality monitoring mechanism not only responds to a core gap identified in activities and analyses of stakeholders, but also builds on ReSOMA’s dialogue with local level and civil society experts, policymakers and researchers. In a very concrete way ReSOMA suggests the contours of a transnational mechanism that brings together implementation monitoring, qualitative evaluation, empowerment and capacity building of stakeholders, as well as EU-wide benchmarking and mutual exchange
Year 2019
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New Asylum Recast May Undermine the EU's Greatest Impact on Refugee Integration

Authors Thomas Huddleston, Judit Tanczos, Alexander Wolffhardt
Description
The EU has had its greatest effects on the integration of beneficiaries of international protection (BIPs) through the stable legal framework of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS). The 2013 Reception Conditions and 2011 Qualification Directives build on the standards set by the 1951 Geneva Convention and aim for its full and effective implementation. As presented in the MPG paper “Lost in transition? The European standards behind refugee integration”, they guarantee a series of standards that shape the integration process, starting from the reception phase until full legal, socio-economic and socio-cultural integration allows refugees to realise their full potential to contribute to society. On 13 July 2016, a set of proposals was presented to reform these standards, including to replace the Qualification Directive with a Regulation and to amend the Reception Conditions Directive.1 The social consequences of these proposals are serious. Since BIPs today are fleeing many protracted conflicts that take on average 25 years to resolve2 , our societies will have to live with the consequences of these proposals for years—if not generations—to come. These proposals largely represent a missed opportunity and a potentially major risk for integration. The minor improvements on reception and qualification standards would only marginally improve the situation on the ground in most Member States. Moreover, several of the recast’s proposals would actually delay and undermine the integration process for asylum-seekers and BIPs by reducing support for potentially large numbers and removing some possibilities for more favourable conditions for integration. Unlike the 1 st and 2nd generation of the CEAS, which consolidated the most common national practices in EU law, several of these proposals are modelled on hasty and politicised recent restrictions in only a few Member States. These restrictions have not yet been demonstrated to be justified, proportionate or effective for improving integration outcomes. Overall, national governments and civil society agreed that better implementation of the current Reception and Qualification Directives would have greater effects on integration, without jeopardising the effectiveness of other proposed reforms to the CEAS. Particularly as the Commission’s 2016 asylum proposals were drafted more hastily than previous EU asylum and immigration proposals, these two proposals would need to be revised or seriously amended by Council and Parliament in order to make integration the top priority of this recast and avoid a de facto race-to-the-bottom where Member States are further demanding integration but not effectively supporting BIPs, Member States and the local, social and civil society actors that make integration a reality.
Year 2017
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57 Report

Media Connections: Bridging the State-Society Divide

Authors John W. Tai
Book Title Building Civil Society in Authoritarian China
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58 Book Chapter

Big data for whose sake? Governing migration through artificial intelligence

Authors Tuba Bircan, Emre Eren Korkmaz
Year 2021
Journal Name HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS
Citations (WoS) 14
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59 Journal Article

"Your life doesn’t matter” : Towards strategic and thoughtful action: an audit of responses to counter health xenophobia in the South African public health system

Authors Iriann Freemantle, Rebecca Walker, African Centre for Migration & Society
Description
With a particular focus on the health sector, this report documents responses to xenophobia in South Africa (SA) from 2000-2022. The overall aim of the research is to determine what has been effective in challenging xenophobia and how to foster solidarity to inform strategic and thoughtful future action, while identifying different forms and modes of responses to xenophobia, including xenophobic violence during this period. Over 80% of the population in SA rely on state-funded access to health. While almost everyone faces challenges in accessing treatment in the country’s failing public healthcare system, specific categories of the population – including asylum seekers, refugees and migrants without documents – face heightened risks, intersectional violence and discrimination when doing so. With rising inequality, unemployment and a public health system crippled by underfunding, corruption and systemic weaknesses, discrimination and violence against foreign nationals and others perceived as “outsiders” such as South Africans from other provinces or naturalised citizens is increasing. The Covid-19 pandemic has further exacerbated the risks and vulnerabilities for many of the country’s most marginalised populations. Drawing from an audit of key civil society actions and strategies that have resisted (health) xenophobia in SA over the past two decades, the report explores the following main questions: what kinds of responses have emerged to tackle multiple forms of health xenophobia? What initiatives, strategies and actions were taken in the past and are taken now – whether organised or informal, by coalitions, organisations, groups or individuals – and how can an understanding of these responses help to mobilise more successfully in the future? The key findings show that there are persistent civil society responses that aim to address the immediate needs of foreign nationals while simultaneously fighting for more awareness, longterm systemic change and recognition of the core structural issues that have led to the crisis within the public healthcare system. To do this, civil society has utilised a variety of advocacy tools: engaging with Parliamentary mechanisms, community mobilisation, protest action, statements, public education, lodging complaints with statutory bodies, embarking on litigation and engaging community networks to mobilise on a local clinic level. The findings of this research also show that within an increasingly challenging context, diverse collaborations and partnerships can be particularly valuable. They draw on the experiences of social justice organisations and their connections with groups and individuals embedded in communities through their histories of local level networking and activism. Highlighting the small, less visible responses which, often have more sustainable impact, this report offers a starting point from which to plan and strategise for the future. However, considering continued and increasingly more emboldened and explicit xenophobia, and the failure (or refusal) of the South African government to take consistent and unequivocal action against xenophobia, it is evident that civil society responses have not been sufficient to quell and address this prejudice. While building on the strategies of the past, new strategies, alliances and energy are urgently needed to continue the struggle to ensure the Freedom Charter vision that “South Africa belongs to all who live in it” – including its public healthcare system.
Year 2023
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Key Experiences of Volunteers in Refugee Aid

Authors Helen Landmann, Helen Landmann, Birte Siem, ...
Year 2023
Journal Name Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies
Citations (WoS) 2
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61 Journal Article

Focus Groups in Migration Research: A Forum for “Public Thinking”?

Authors Annalisa Frisina
Year 2018
Book Title Qualitative Research in European Migration Studies
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62 Book Chapter

POLICY BRIEFS UK asylum and immigration policy in focus: improved security or increased insecurity?

Authors Kahina Le Louvier, Karen Latricia Hough
Year 2022
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63 Policy Brief

Do Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) Support Self-Reliance among Urban Refugees? Evidence from Kuala Lumpur and Penang, Malaysia

Authors Charles Martin-Shields, Katrina Munir-Asen
Year 2022
Journal Name International Migration Review
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64 Journal Article

Asylum and refugee support in the UK: civil society filling the gaps?

Authors Lucy Mayblin, Poppy James
Year 2018
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 2
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65 Journal Article

When Being a Good Samaritan is Not Good Enough: Church Sanctuary and Privileged Responsibility

Authors Pieter Dronkers
Year 2022
Journal Name Journal of Refugee Studies
Citations (WoS) 2
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66 Journal Article

Responding to the Dutch Asylum Crisis: Implications for Collaborative Work between Civil Society and Governmental Organizations

Authors Robert Larruina, Kees Boersma, Elena Ponzoni
Year 2019
Journal Name Social Inclusion
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67 Journal Article

The multifaceted outcomes of community-engaged water quality management in a Palestinian refugee camp

Authors Amahl Bishara, Nidal Al-Azraq, Shatha Alazzeh, ...
Year 2020
Journal Name Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
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69 Journal Article

‘From Sanctuary to Welcoming Cities’: Negotiating the Social Inclusion of Undocumented Migrants in Liège, Belgium

Authors Sebastien Lambert, Thomas Swerts
Year 2019
Journal Name Social Inclusion
Citations (WoS) 23
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70 Journal Article

Immigration and Revolution in Iran: Asylum politics and State Consolidation

Authors Amin Moghadam, Safinaz Jadali
Journal Name REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana
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71 Journal Article

From Refugee to Entrepreneur? Challenges to Refugee Self-reliance in Berlin, Germany

Authors Alexandra Embiricos
Year 2020
Journal Name Journal of Refugee Studies
Citations (WoS) 30
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72 Journal Article

International Civil Society Cooperation on Migrants' Rights: Perspectives from an NGO Network

Authors Genevieve Gencianos
Year 2004
Journal Name European Journal of Migration and Law
Citations (WoS) 1
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73 Journal Article

Civil Society in Making: <i>Challenges of the Somali Diaspora Organizations</i>

Authors Marja Tiilikainen, Abdirizak Hassan Mohamed
Year 2013
Journal Name Nordic Journal of Migration Research
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74 Journal Article

“We came to this country for the future of our children. We have no future”: Acculturative stress among Iraqi refugees in the United States

Authors Rihab Mousa Yako, Bipasha Biswas
Year 2014
Journal Name International Journal of Intercultural Relations
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75 Journal Article

Lessons from Experiences of Syrian Civil Society in Refugee Education of Turkey

Authors Ulas Sunata, Amal Abdulla
Year 2019
Journal Name Journal of Immigrant &amp; Refugee Studies
Citations (WoS) 16
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76 Journal Article

Om het maatschappelijk belang - advies over het betrekken van het lokale bestuur en de lokale gemeenschap bij de uitoefening van de discretionaire bevoegdheid

Authors Adviescommissie voor Vreemdelingenzaken (ACVZ)
Description
Vreemdelingen die niet rechtmatig in Nederland verblijven, moeten Nederland verlaten. Een deel van deze groep kan of wil echter niet zelfstandig vertrekken en wordt ook niet uitgezet. Deze vreemdelingen zijn uitgesloten van voorzieningen, maar weten zich ondanks hun kwetsbare positie soms te handhaven. Lokale overheden en maatschappelijke organisaties voelen zich op grond van humanitaire overwegingen verantwoordelijk voor het welzijn van deze vreemdelingen. Met name als zij deel zijn gaan uitmaken van de lokale gemeenschap, kan op den duur een gevoel van onrechtvaardigheid ontstaan over het besluit van de centrale overheid aan hen geen verblijf toe te staan, of dat verblijf te beëindigen. Dit geschonden rechtsgevoel leidt geregeld tot verzoeken van buurtbewoners, maatschappelijke organisaties en het lokale bestuur aan de bewindspersoon om met gebruikmaking van zijn discretionaire bevoegdheid als uitzondering op het beleid de vreemdeling alsnog een verblijfsvergunning te geven. De redenen die hierbij worden aangevoerd zijn vaak humanitair van aard, maar houden ook verband met de deelname van de vreemdeling aan het maatschappelijk leven in de lokale gemeenschap. De bewindspersoon heeft beperkt zicht op deze lokale omstandigheden, terwijl voor het lokale bestuur en de -gemeenschap niet altijd duidelijk is welke factoren de minister meeweegt bij de toepassing van zijn discretionaire bevoegdheid. In de publieke discussies over deze zaken kunnen de emoties hoog oplopen. Dit zet het draagvlak voor het vreemdelingenbeleid onder druk. Ook de minister voor Immigratie & Asiel signaleert dat er binnen de samenleving een verwachtingspatroon over de toepassing van de discretionaire bevoegdheid bestaat dat niet aansluit bij de wijze waarop deze in de praktijk wordt toegepast. Daarom heeft hij de Adviescommissie voor Vreemdelingenzaken (ACVZ) gevraagd hem te adviseren over verblijfsmogelijkheden voor uitgeprocedeerde asielzoekers van wie het verblijf ‘een Nederlands belang’ dient en of, en zo ja hoe, het lokale bestuur hier een rol in zou kunnen spelen.
Year 2011
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The Effectiveness of Psychotherapy with Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Preliminary Results from an Austrian Study

Authors Walter Renner
Year 2007
Journal Name Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
Citations (WoS) 12
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79 Journal Article

Research-Policy Dialogues in the Netherlands

Authors Han Entzinger, Stijn Verbeek, Peter Scholten
Book Title Integrating Immigrants in Europe
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80 Book Chapter

Refugee Mobilities and Institutional Changes: Local Housing Policies and Segregation Processes in Greek Cities

Authors Pinelopi Vergou, Paschalis A. Arvanitidis, Panos Manetos
Year 2021
Journal Name Urban Planning
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81 Journal Article

Forced displacement and refugee-host community solidarity (FOCUS)

Principal investigator Nahikari Irastorza (Project Leader), Jason Tucker (Project Leader ), Pieter Bevelander (Participants)
Description
This project starts from the basic assumptions that forced migration to the European Union will continue in the future due to a number of different push and pull factors, that influx of refugees will influence the social, political and economic landscape of receiving societies, and that there are a variety of costs and benefits of integrating refugees in the host societies that are reflected in relational dynamics between the host and refugee communities. Bearing these considerations in mind, the goal of FOCUS is to increase the understanding of and to provide effective and evidence-based solutions for the challenges of forced migration within host communities. By doing so, it also aims at contributing to increased tolerance, peaceful coexistence, and reduced radicalization across Europe and the Middle East. Based on a comprehensive mapping and trans-disciplinary, multi-site field research conducted in Jordan, Croatia, Germany and Sweden, FOCUS explores the socio-psychological dimensions of refugee and host-community relations and analyses the socio-economic integration of refugees and the consequences of this in host societies. This knowledge is then used to transform and strengthen existing promising solutions for social and labour market integration. The integration solutions will be pilot tested in at least five European countries by governmental and non-governmental end-users. The solutions are finally brought together in the Refugee and Host Community Toolbox, which will support policy makers, municipal actors, civil society organisations and other stakeholders in responding to the needs of both refugees and host communities and thereby act as agents of change in this field.
Year 2019
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82 Project

Research-Policy Dialogues in the European Union

Authors Marthe Achtnich, Andrew Geddes
Year 2015
Book Title Integrating Immigrants in Europe
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83 Book Chapter

Technology and countersurveillance: holding governments accountable for refugee externalization policies

Authors Daniel Ghezelbash
Year 2022
Journal Name Globalizations
Citations (WoS) 3
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84 Journal Article

Chinese NGOs: Thriving Amidst Adversity

Authors John W. Tai
Book Title Building Civil Society in Authoritarian China
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85 Book Chapter

UK: the real ‘immigration debate’

Authors Frances Webber
Year 2011
Journal Name Race &amp; Class
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86 Journal Article

Working Together: Building Successful Policy and Program Partnerships for Immigrant Integration

Authors Els de Graauw, Irene Bloemraad
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal on Migration and Human Security
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87 Journal Article

Integration policies : country report for Croatia

Authors Simona KUTI
Description
The report provides a description of the main policy documents, initiatives and actors dealing with immigrant integration in Croatia. After introductory remarks concerning the context and recent migration flows to Croatia – which are composed mainly of citizens from the countries of former Yugoslavia – the report identifies main target groups and the focus of integration measures, as well as the main policy tools implemented thus far. The third section focuses on forms of engagement by civil society organisations concerning integration – providing services and various forms of assistance, primarily to asylum seekers, refugees and persons under subsidiary protection. Given that the main policy measures are in the early stages of development or planned for upcoming periods, it is premature to fully assess their implementation. However, since most of the current measures target asylum seekers, asylum grantees and subsidiary protection beneficiaries it will be necessary to develop new integration instruments or extend the applicability of the existing ones to different categories of immigrants, to correspond to the envisaged future role of Croatia as an immigration country.
Year 2014
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Civil society and new migrants in superdiverse contexts

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This project investigates the role of civil society organisations (CSOs) for new migrants in superdiverse contexts. It explores whether CSOs are instrumental in the building of social relations during their settlement process. This social aspect of settlement, also described as social integration, is crucial regarding other aspects of settlement such as access to education, housing and the labour market. The project also looks at the role of CSOs regarding the relationships which long-term residents, both of ethnic majority and minority backgrounds, form with newcomers, addressing issues surrounding integration as ‘two-way-process’. The project will lead to novel findings because: • Rather than focussing on established ethnic minorities, it investigates patterns of integration of people originating from relatively new source countries who settle into already superdiverse contexts • It is situated within an emerging research field on new conditions of superdiversity which have rarely been explored systematically • It goes beyond existing quantitative work on civil society participation • It will develop theory around social contact, social capital and integration nuancing current thinking around the role of CSOs in settlement Superdiversity has resulted from changing immigration patterns into Europe, with people entering cities in substantial numbers, and from far more countries of origin than ever before. This has resulted in a condition of more ethnicities, languages, religions, migration experiences, work and living conditions and legal statuses than many cities have ever faced (Vertovec 2007). By way of in-depth ethnographic fieldwork and interviews in two UK urban neighbourhoods, and drawing on existing theory, method and policy, the project will elicit how new migrants settle in such contexts, how long-term residents deal with unprecedented population changes, and what the role of CSOs is in this process.
Year 2015
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89 Project

Just Around the Corner: How Cross-ethnic Solidarity Is Established Between Locals and the Asylum-Seekers and Refugees in a Local NGO

Authors Isabella Ng, Isabella Ng
Year 2024
Journal Name Journal of International Migration and Integration
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90 Journal Article

Paradoxes of Protection: Compassionate Repression at the Mexico–Guatemala Border

Authors Rebecca Galemba, Katie Dingeman, Kaelyn DeVries, ...
Year 2019
Journal Name Journal on Migration and Human Security
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91 Journal Article

"Operacao Acolhida": Between Militarization and Social Assistance

Authors Ariane Rego de Paiva, Ana Gabriela de Paiva Goncalves
Year 2021
Journal Name Immigrant Youth and Employment: Lessons Learned from the Analysis of LSIC and 82 Lived Stories
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93 Journal Article

Toward a New Countermovement: A Framework for Interpreting the Contradictory Interventions of Migrant Civil Society Organizations in Urban Labor Markets

Authors Nina Martin
Year 2011
Journal Name Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
Citations (WoS) 9
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94 Journal Article

Waiting in Motion. Migrants’ Involvement in Civil Society Organizations While Pursuing a Migration Project

Authors Olga Odgers-Ortiz, Olga Odgers-Ortiz, Olga Lidia Olivas Hernández, ...
Year 2023
Journal Name Journal of Immigrant &amp; Refugee Studies
Citations (WoS) 1
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95 Journal Article

Civil society organisations and the healthcare of irregular migrants: the humanitarianism-equity dilemma

Authors Lorenzo Piccoli, Roberta Perna
Year 2024
Journal Name Comparative Migration Studies
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96 Journal Article

The narrative assemblage of civil society interventions into refugee and asylum policy debates in the UK

Authors Katherine Tonkiss
Year 2018
Journal Name VOLUNTARY SECTOR REVIEW
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97 Journal Article

Who Volunteers at Refugee and Immigrant Nonprofits? Results from Two Studies

Authors Anna Ferris, Tiana Marrese, Ram Cnaan, ...
Year 2024
Journal Name Nonprofit Policy Forum
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98 Journal Article

Die behauptete und die gelebte Migrationskrise: der widersprüchliche Fall Italien

Authors Felicitas Hillmann
Year 2019
Journal Name Geographica Helvetica
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99 Journal Article

The Impact of Civil Society on Refugee Politics in Egypt

Authors Shahira SAMY
Description
(En) The research paper sheds light on the impact of civil society on refugee politics in Egypt. It first profiles the refugee communities in the country and discusses their main aspects of livelihood. The paper then explores the nature of civil-society presence and action on the refugee scene, deriving the main characteristics and challenges facing this involvement particularly in the case of human rights advocacy organisations. The paper argues that civil society has a minimal impact on refugee politics in Egypt since the scope of activities, which revolves around service delivery, does not impact policy-making nor does it shape advocacy rights. **** Résumé (Fr) La présente note de recherche met en exergue l’impact de la société civile sur la politique des réfugiés en Egypte. Après avoir passé en revue les différentes catégories de réfugiés dans le pays et examiné leurs différentes ressources et moyens de subsistance, la note examine la nature des organisations et associations civiles et leurs activités dans le domaine de la politique des réfugiés. La note analyse ensuite les caractéristiques de cet engagement civil et les défis qui l’entravent, notamment les défis qui se posent aux organisations de défense des droits de l’homme. L’auteur démontre en conclusion que la société civile a un impact minimal sur la politique des réfugiés en Egypte puisque les activités du secteur associatif s’articulent essentiellement autour de la délivrance des services aux réfugies et n’affectent pas le noyau des politiques gouvernementales ni les politiques et droits à préconiser.
Year 2009
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