Asylum-seekers Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Briefing paper

A People’s Vaccine For Refugees: Ensuring access to COVID-19 vaccines for refugees and other displaced people

30/11/2021

3 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

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As we continue to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, it is vital that no one is excluded from vaccine coverage. This briefing note addresses some of the challenges faced by displaced people – including refugees, asylum seekers, IDPs, stateless people, and others in displacement contexts – in accessing COVID-19 vaccinations. It identifies a range of […]

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Briefing paper

Detention as the Default: How Greece, with the support of the EU, is generalizing administrative detention of migrants

16/11/2021

1 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English

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Putting migrants and asylum seekers into detention for administrative reasons is a common practice in Greece, despite this policy contravening human rights. Greek authorities are using detention and the new EU-funded closed compounds as a way to discourage people from seeking asylum in Europe. Detention, as outlined in Greek law, should only be used as […]

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Briefing paper

Tipping the Scales: The role of responsibility- and solidarity-sharing in the situation on the Greek islands

15/02/2021

1 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

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This report assesses the impact of EU countries’ refusal to relocate asylum seekers on the Greek islands. It illustrates that they have consistently failed to show solidarity by not delivering on commitments to relocate people, either by refusing to participate in the first place or by not fulfilling their pledges. This has left thousands of […]

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Briefing paper

Diminished, Derogated, Denied: How the right to asylum in Greece is undermined by the lack of EU responsibility sharing

02/07/2020

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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The new Greek asylum law that entered into force on 1 January 2020 has significantly diminished protection for people seeking asylum. The law and its amendments increase asylum seekers’ vulnerabilities, while limiting access to their fundamental right to seek asylum and be protected from serious risks. Meanwhile, the Greek policies and practices are part of […]

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Media briefing

Vulnerable and abandoned: How the Greek reception system is failing to protect the most vulnerable people seeking asylum

09/01/2019

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

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Greece and its EU partners are failing pregnant women, unaccompanied children, victims of torture or sexual violence and other vulnerable people who seek protection in Europe. These people are being put at risk by flawed processes and chronic understaffing in EU ‘hotspot’ camps on the Greek islands. They do not receive adequate support from the […]

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Case study

‘The Lawyers Have Given Us Hope Again’: Legal aid for protection in Europe

10/07/2018

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

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The migratory movement towards Europe through Spain, Italy and Greece is an old phenomenon, with peaks at times of conflict. But the summer of 2015 saw an exponential increase in arrivals, as people transited through Libya to Italy, through Turkey to reach Greece, and from there through the Balkans to continue their quest for safety. […]

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Briefing paper

Nowhere But Out: The failure of France and Italy to help refugees and other migrants stranded at the border in Ventimiglia

15/06/2018

3 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English, French, Italian

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In Ventimiglia, near the border between Italy and France, refugees and other migrants are living rough, without access to the most basic services. Women, men and children are ‘pushed’ out of the Italian asylum system, which often fails to meet their most basic needs for safety, information and education. Across the border, the French police […]

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Media briefing

EU hotspots spread fear and doubt

18/04/2016

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

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On 18 April 2015, a shipwreck in the Central Mediterranean caused the deaths of an estimated 800 people seeking to reach Italy. The EU responded to the tragedy by calling the first of many emergency summits and speeding up the issuance of the EU Agenda on Migration. A package of measures, meant to increase Europe’s […]

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Briefing note

A Safe Haven? Britain’s role in protecting people on the move

14/04/2016

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

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Across Europe, people who have fled human rights violations, conflict, violence and hardship are living in inhumane conditions, and thousands have drowned trying to reach the continent. While the UK government has been a leader in providing assistance to countries hosting large numbers of refugees, it has fallen short of its moral responsibility to provide […]

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Evaluation report

Final Evaluation: Sanctuary in Wales project

27/10/2015

3 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

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The Sanctuary in Wales Project delivered opportunities for women seeking sanctuary (asylum-seekers and refugees) in Wales between 2012 and 2015. Oxfam Cymru coordinated the three-year project in the four asylum dispersal areas of Wales, working in partnership with Oasis Cardiff in Cardiff, African Community Centre in Swansea, Displaced People in Action and Bethel Community Church […]

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