Project description
Mass migration governance policies' impact on refugee communities
In the wake of the 2015 refugee crisis, governance capacity and policy coherence are more necessary than ever. The EU-funded RESPOND project will investigate policymaking processes and policy (in)coherence through comparative research in source, transit and destination countries. The project will focus on border management and security, international refugee protection, reception policies, integration policies, and conflicting Europeanisation and externalisation. Ultimately, RESPOND will show which migration governance policies really work and how migrants and officials are making do in the too-frequent absence of coherent policies. Adhering to a refugee-centred approach throughout, RESPOND will bring insights to citizenship, gender and integration studies, ensure direct impact on refugee communities and provide a basis for more effective policy development.
Objective
With the goal of enhancing the governance capacity and policy coherence of the EU, its member states and neighbors, RESPOND is a comprehensive study of migration governance in the wake of the 2015 Refugee Crisis. Bringing together 14 partners from 7 disciplines, the project probes policy-making processes and policy (in)coherence through comparative research in source, transit and destination countries.
RESPOND analyzes migration governance across macro (transnational, national), meso (sub-national/local) and micro-levels (refugees/migrants) by applying an innovative research methodology utilizing legal and policy analysis, comparative historical analysis, political claims analysis, socio-economic and cultural analysis, longitudinal survey analysis, interview based analysis, and photovoice techniques. It focuses in-depth on: (1) Border management and security, (2) International refugee protection, (3) Reception policies, (4) Integration policies, and (5) Conflicting Europeanization and externalization.
We use these themes to examine multi-level governance while tackling the troubling question of the role of forced migration in precipitating increasing disorder in Europe. In contrast to much research undertaken on governance processes at a single level of analysis, RESPOND’s multilevel, multi-method approach shows the co-constitutive relationship between policy and practice among actors at all three levels; it highlights the understudied role of meso-level officials; and it shines a light on the activities of non-governmental actors in the face of policy vacuums. Ultimately, RESPOND will show which migration governance policies really work and how migrants and officials are making-do in the too-frequent absence of coherent policies.
Adhering to a refugee-centered approach throughout, RESPOND will bring insights to citizenship, gender and integration studies, ensure direct benefit to refugee communities and provide a basis for more effective policy development.
Fields of science
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
H2020-SC6-ENG-GLOBALLY-2016-2017
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H2020-SC6-ENG-GLOBALLY-2017
Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
751 05 Uppsala
Sweden