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Same Legal Status but Unequal Treatment: Bureaucratic Discrimination Against Mobile EU Citizens

07.09.2021 , in ((Politics, Practices)) , ((No Comments))
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EU Citizenship guarantees the same rights to all mobile EU citizens who move to another member state. And yet, as a recent study by Christian Adam, Xavier Fernández-i-Marín, Oliver James, Anita Manatschal, Carolin Rapp and Eva Thomann indicates, some EU citizens are more likely than others to face discrimination when ...

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Wie gelingt internationale Verantwortungsteilung? Asyl- und Klimapolitik im Vergleich

02.09.2021 , in ((Politics, Practices)) , ((No Comments))
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Menschen auf der Flucht haben Anspruch auf humanitären Schutz in einem sicheren Land – doch welches Land soll dafür zuständig sein? In der Praxis sind bisherige Bemühungen gescheitert, verbindliche Regelungen zur gemeinsamen Verantwortungsteilung in der Asylpolitik zu etablieren. Ein Vergleich mit der internationalen Klimapolitik zeigt, wie ein wirksamer Rahmen aussehen ...

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Making Responsibility-Sharing Operational: Comparing Asylum and Climate Governance

31.08.2021 , in ((Politics, Practices)) , ((No Comments))
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International law demands that refugees obtain humanitarian protection in a safe country. However, which country should be responsible for which refugee remains a contested and unresolved question of international asylum governance – in particular in the event of refugee emergencies. Sharing the common responsibility of humanitarian protection is motivated by ...

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