FACULTY OF CULTURE AND SOCIETY | Seminar
Migration seminar: The EU’s new asylum system

Welcome to the MIM Migration Seminar!

The EU’s new asylum system: history, expectations and possible consequences

Profile

Bernd Parusel, researcher at the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS)

Abstract

Just before the end of 2023, the European Parliament and the Council of
the European Union reached an agreement on the “New Pact on
Migration and Asylum” after lengthy and difficult negotiations. This Pact,
which had been presented by the European Commission in September
2020 and also included earlier proposals, is a comprehensive package of
laws and policy recommendations that cover many areas of the EU’s
common migration and asylum policy and bring some innovations. The
Pact introduces, for example, a mandatory screening of asylum seekers
and migrants without travel documents who arrive at the EU's external
borders; fast-track asylum and return procedures in closed reception
centers at (or close to) the borders; specific rules for border crossing,
reception conditions, and asylum processing in different types of “crisis”
situations; and a new "solidarity mechanism" for responsibility-sharing
between the member states of the EU.

While the EU institutions are taking the last steps necessary for the Pact
to become law, it is time to investigate and discuss its possible
consequences. What changes will it bring to the existing Common
European Asylum System? How will it affect the rights of people on the
move to Europe? What impact will it have on the EU’s capability to handle
migration and international protection in a realistic and humane manner,
and how will it affect future policymaking on asylum and migration? What
can we say about possible quantitative consequences? This seminar aims
to develop a few – preliminary – answers to these questions with a policy
analysis approach.

Attendance

This is a hybrid seminar, you are welcome to connect via Zoom or join us at MIM seminar room, floor 9, Niagara, Nordenskiöldsgatan 1. To attend on campus, please gather by the reception area at 14.10.
If you have any questions, send an email mim@mau.se

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Meeting-ID: 625 8751 6175

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