This is one of two blog posts where Protect researchers reflect upon how the Corona pandemic is affecting people on the move across the world. In this post, Professor Jo Vearey from Wits University and Professor Idil Atak from Ryerson University share their insights from South Africa and Canada.
Summary
PROTECT studies the impacts of the United Nations’ Global Refugee Compact and Global Migration Compact on the functioning of the international refugee protection system. This investigation is done from the perspectives of political theory, legal theory, cleavage theory, public sphere theory, multilevel global governance, and ethnography. The entities focused on are the UNHCR and IOM (the […]
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 […]
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 […]