In November 1981, nearly forty years ago, the United Nations General Assembly installed the International Day of Peace to remember and reinforce the ideal of peace and to relieve tensions and root causes of conflict. Later , it decided to devote September 21 ^st of each year for the commemoration of and adherence to peace.

Der Abzug der westlichen Streitkräfte aus Afghanistan versetzte die Taliban in die Lage, die Macht binnen kurzer Zeit zu übernehmen. Die Taliban-Bewegung bemüht sich um ein Image, das ihr im Gegensatz zu ihrem Paria-Status in den 1990er Jahren internationale Anerkennung verschaffen würde.

Von Petra Bendel, Johanna Günther, Raphaela Schweiger und Janina Stürner-Siovitz

Das Argument für die rechtlich-legitimierte Einreise von Ortskräften öffnet die Falle, zwischen verdienenden und nicht-verdienenden Migrant*innen zu unterscheiden.

Von Nerges Azizi, Mojib Rahman Atal und Stefan Salomon   Die Reaktionen in Deutschland (und anderen EU Mitgliedstaaten) auf die Machtübernahme der Taliban in Afghanistan entbehren nicht einer gewissen Ambivalenz.

The swift collapse of the Afghan government and the Taliban’s military takeover came as a surprise for many in the West.

In 2021 and beyond, refugee resettlement remains an indispensable protection tool for refugees facing particular vulnerability in countries of (first) refuge. Alarmingly, the resettlement numbers have reached the lowest levels on record in at least two decades. The UNHCR, a crucial actor in global resettlement since its creation, encounters the challenge of persuading potential resettlement countries to increase their resettlement offers.

While many question the relevance of the 1951 Refugee Convention today, refugee protection in the EU has actually expanded in the past 30 years. In just one generation, doctrinal shifts and factual obstacles have ensured that effective protection is accessible to more persons. That this has occurred despite increasingly restrictive laws and xenophobic discourses only showcases the resilience of the Convention and its principles.

2021 ist aus migrationshistorischer und völkerrechtlicher Sicht ein ambivalentes Gedenkjahr. Neben der in dieser Blogreihe erinnerten Gründung des UNHCR und der Unterzeichnung der Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention (GFK) vor 70 Jahren sollte dabei auch ein großer Bruch derer Prinzipien, der Bau der Berliner Mauer vor 60 Jahren, nicht vergessen werden.

  By Cüneyt Gürer and Mehmet A. Sözer   This article presents policy related results of a data analysis conducted to understand the nature of refugee worries (concerns) during the integration process in Germany. Data comes from the German Socio-Economic Panel study (SOEP), which has a specific data subset collected from refugee population living in […]

Der Beitrag Understanding Refugee Worries in the Integration Process erschien zuerst auf Netzwerk Fluchtforschung.

The European Commission’s promise to renew its cooperation with refugees’ countries of origin and transit should be critically assessed in the light of the latest proposals: Can these really represent a change of paradigm with regard to the long criticized one-sided security bias, a growing externalization of border controls and imposed conditionalities on third countries?