Essays about: "migration and asylum debate"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 essays containing the words migration and asylum debate.

  1. 1. Policy Analysis: Temporary Protection Directive and its Implementation in the Nordic Welfare Context : A comparative case study of Sweden and Finland

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Anni Luoto; [2023]
    Keywords : Temporary Protection Directive; Refugee; Temporary Protection Status; Asylum Policies; Law.;

    Abstract : On March 4, 2022, the Temporary Protection Directive (TPD) was activated as a response to a mass influx of Ukrainian refugees. The Directive was ratified by the EU member states already in 2001, following the events of the refugee crisis caused by the Kosovo conflict. READ MORE

  2. 2. Shifting Responsibilities: Constructing Threats and Restricting Autonomy : A Discourse Analysis on the Housing and Settlement of People Seeking Asylum in Sweden

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Julia Harmgardt; [2021]
    Keywords : WPR; discourse theory; policy; refugees; asylum seekers; people seeking asylum; migration; segregation; EBO-legislation; housing; integration; refugee settlement;

    Abstract : Sweden, like Europe, has had an increased influx of people seeking asylum in recent years, instigating restrictive measures within the Swedish asylum regime. Simultaneously as the sustainability of settlement and housing policies for people seeking asylum has been the subject of large political debate, restrictive methods such as a minimum rights approach has been adopted, putting the Swedish asylum regime at the edge of the European Convention. READ MORE

  3. 3. Minilateral cooperation as a determinant of parliamentary behaviour : A study of debate and voting cohesion within the Visegrad Group during the Eighth European Parliament

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Filip Nerc; [2021]
    Keywords : Regional cooperation; Regional partnerships; Minilateralism; Minilateral partnerships; European Parliament; Visegrad Group;

    Abstract : This study investigates minilateral partnerships, also referred to as regional cooperations, with the purpose of identifying whether these types of partnerships may be perceived as cohesive political grouping in the EP and if such cooperations influence the way in which MEPs debate and vote. The study uses a combined qualitative and quantitative method to study the behaviour of MEPs from the Visegrad Group when debating and voting on migration and asylum policy, during the Eight European Parliament. READ MORE

  4. 4. Pushing the Border Outwards : A Critical Discourse Analysis of the European Commission’s Securitisation of Migration and the Right to Asylum

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Sam Nissander; [2021]
    Keywords : Asylum; Copenhagen School of Security Studies; EU; European Commission; Externalisation; Discourse Analysis; Migration; Securitisation;

    Abstract : This thesis scrutinises the European Commission’s discourse surrounding the externalisation of migration and asylum policies and discusses what potential implications this may have on the right to asylum. The aim of this work is to increase the understanding of how migration and security are discursively connected and identify what this discourse looks like. READ MORE

  5. 5. Dichotomies of Utility : Experiences of Refugee Reception and Demographic Challenges in Rural Sweden

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Axel Andersson; [2020]
    Keywords : political economy; integration; demographics; refugee reception; macroeconomics; citizenship; welfare; rural municipalities; Modern Monetary Theory;

    Abstract : In the years immediately following the so-called “refugee crisis”, Swedish municipalities that had received many refugees improved their financial position in a quite remarkable way. Overall, 2016 might have been the best financial year ever for the municipal sector. READ MORE