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This report examines the asylum determination systems and refugee protection regimes ofGermany from a multilevel governance perspective, taking into consideration the national levelas well as the state and municipal one. Additionally it explores the legal framework, as well asits implementation and concrete practices, along with main narratives among public and stateactors and the perception and experiences of asylum-seeking migrants from a historicalperspective. The report reveals that after a key decisive policy change in 1993, codified in theso-called asylum compromise establishing central features that endure until today, the nextdecisive break was the developments of 2015/2016 – with the massive inflow of nearly800,000 asylum-seeking migrants to Germany. This new increase in numbers led to a nearcollapse of the reception and procedural systems that had been cut back over previous years,producing in fact a self-made emergency situation. Our report and the many statements of asylum-seeking migrants, ofNGOs and lawyers, all emphasise the need to have a broad civil society sector and volunteersthat support asylum applicants through each and every step of their procedure, monitoring theperformances of state institutions and filling the gaps where state provisions endanger the ruleof law and fundamental rights – as codified in international European and national laws. |
