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PROTECT in the media

Norway: Admitting asylum-seekers or paying other countries to do so ? EU!RADIO, a dynamic not-for-profit radio station adopting a resolutely European perspective, as part of their weekly ‘Ideas on Europe’ editorial by UACES, the University Association for European Studies, has welcomed Pierre Van Wolleghem, Executive Scientific Coordinator of PROTECT to talk about the future of international refugee […]

Work Packages

Every H2020 project is composed of several work packages (WPs), or clusters of activities, which converge toward a common goal. PROTECT consists of 11 WPs, all of them contributing to its scientific quality and ethical integrity, and ultimately concurring to understanding and safeguarding the right to international protection. WP1: Developing theoretical, conceptual and methodological approaches […]

WP5

The impacts of the GRC and the GMC on civil societies’ recognition of the right to international protection Whilst it is known that CSOs often play a decisive role in the reception and integration of refugees, there is little evidence regarding their attitudes towards the UN notion of international protection and their collaboration networks. CSOs […]

WP4

The impacts of the GRC and the GMC on the governance of international protection: fieldwork studies of governance in practice Global is not synonymous with abstract or unsubstantial, and migration policies are most strongly felt in sensitive locations. These are the targets of WP4`s bottom-up analysis. By carrying out two rounds of fieldworks in migratory […]

WP3

The impacts of the GRC and the GMC on the governance of international protection: institutional architectures of asylum determination The fact that different states deploy correspondingly different institutional architectures and procedures to determine asylum is widely known. WP3 maps these differences in PROTECT’s main settings – the EU, Canada, and South Africa –, including by […]

WP11

Ethics Requirements This work package sets out the ethics requirements that the project must comply with while carrying out research activities. These regard the protection of personal data collected through interviews and surveys. Given the nature of the project and the involvement of asylum seekers and refugees, minors included, a Research Ethics and Gender Task […]