By Daniel Gyollai (Glasgow Caledonian University) and Umut Korkut (Glasgow Caledonian University) The Syrian-born Canadian author and refugee activist, Danny Ramadan has been reported to be physically and verbally insulted due to his assumed Roma ethnicity at Sziget Festival in Budapest on 16th August 2018. The news perhaps comes with a shock to the general audience […]
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By Risha Jagarnathsingh (Lebanon Support) Lebanon has been hosting refugees from, amongst others, Palestine, Iraq, and more recently, since 2011, Syria. As such, Lebanon – praised by the international community for its hospitality, despite not being a signatory of the 1951 Refugee Convention nor to its 1967 Protocol – has the highest per-capita concentration of […]
Continue readingBy Johanna Elle (Georg-August Universität Göttingen) and Sabine Hess (Georg-August Universität Göttingen). Since summer 2015, there have been a number of remarkable shifts in gender awareness in the context of flight and migration in the German refugee debate. The attention paid to gender-specific issues in the press and politics soared quite abruptly in 2015 so that […]
Continue readingBy Ivan Josipovic (Austrian Academy of Sciences) and Ursula Reeger (Austrian Academy of Sciences). Austria has a long tradition as a destination country for migrants and refugees. It is a country that for decades promoted labour migration and admitted refugees during the communist era of Eastern Europe as well as during the Balkan Wars. The notion […]
Continue readingBy Justyna Szlanska. My journey to RESPOND began in 2014, when I attended a conference, ‘From a Cradle of Civilization to a Globalizing Transit Region’ organized by the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. With a group of academics and researchers from different disciplines like ethnology, psychology, archeology, political sciences, law and linguistics we discussed Turkey […]
Continue readingBy Veronica Federico (University of Florence), Silvia D’Amato (University of Florence), Andrea Terlizzi (University of Florence) and Paola Pannia (University of Florence). RESPOND’s first Work Package (WP 1), led by the University of Florence is titled, “Legal and policy framework: sustainability and interaction.” It aims to gather background information about the socio-economic, political, legal and […]
Continue readingJust next to the old Carolina Park with a view to the university library, Uppsala Castle, and the Botanical Garden lies the Uppsala Religion and Society Research Centre, where RESPOND is coordinated. Further into the university, shielded from the public eye, is the Humanities Theatre, Uppsala University’s latest contribution to the campus. It is in […]
Continue readingBy Susan Beth Rottmann (Özyeğin University) The research challenges that RESPOND faces are enormous. It is an ambitious project involving research in 11 countries with migrants from the Middle East, Africa and Eastern Europe who speak more than 15 different languages! It also involves research with stakeholders who work in many different areas of migration […]
Continue readingThe goal of this blog is to share information about research on migration governance conducted as part of RESPOND, an EU Horizon 2020 project. For more information about RESPOND, please visit the project website or engage with us via our social media pages: facebook group, facebook page, twitter, academia.edu and instagram. We look forward to hearing from you!
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