Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin

This issue covers most current refugee situations and legal discussions. The editorial by Roßkopf highlights the current debate on suspending family reunification for beneficiaries of subsidiary protection in the wake of election campaigns and coalition-forming in Austria and Germany. Kortukova examines the multifaceted impact of the Temporary Protection Directive on the European Unionlabor market following the displacement of beneficiaries of temporary protection due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Katsigianni & Koutsouraki explore the safety assessment regarding third countries and countries of origin and their application in the Greek asylum system based on international and European law, the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights paired with desktop research on human rights situations in the designated safe countries. Franz critically analyses the Biden and Trump administrations’ refugee and asylum policies and argues existing racial hierarchies as evidenced in U.S. refugee resettlement policies concluding with a number of recommendations for reforms. Jerzak & Wagner present findings of three standarized online surveys directed towards empirically measure and describe the field of Social Work with Refugees in Saxony, Germany, and derive policy recommendations. Finally, dos Santos Gonçalves introduces ‘Operation Welcome’, a Brazilian government initiative to receive Venezuelan migrants and refugees, which has been managing emergency humanitarian assistance on the border between Brazil and Venezuela since 2018.