A presentation and discussion on the interplay between European regulations, national discrepancies, and migrants' strategies, featuring researchers from the Institute for Social Research in Oslo, Norway.
For the past fifteen years, European governments have worked towards creating a common migration regulation. A lot has been achieved. Still, continued tension exists between the supra-national attempts at coordination, national discrepancies and migrants´ adaptive strategies.
In this presentation, Norwegian researchers from the Institute for Social Research in Oslo, Norway, illustrate these tensions with a study of secondary migration of African asylum seekers from Italy to Norway. According to the so-called Dublin-Agreement, the first EU-member country an asylum seeker comes to shall be responsible for processing his or her case. The migrants, however, move on despite this supra-national regulation. This is mainly because of the differences in reception and integration systems in the two countries.
Featuring:
Grete Brochmann, professor of Sociology, University of Oslo/Institute for Social Research
Jan-Paul Brekke, senior researcher, Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway
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