Midterm Flashcards
The Geneva Convention was established in
1951
What are the main goals of the Hotspot Approach according to the European Agenda on Migration?
Relocation or refugees
Identification and registration of refugees
What does this image stand for?
Fortress Europe
Why have the guest workers programs been stopped by European governments in the 1970s?
Oil price shock stopped the demand for labourers.
Which conclusions do Castels, Miller and de Haan draw in their text on Theories of Migration?
Increasing capabilities and aspirations to move are relevant drivers for migration.
The role of the agents shapes the character of the migration process.
Which colonies did migrants in the following European States mainly come from? United Kingdom Portugal Belgium The Netherlands France
United Kingdom– India Portugal – Angola and Mozambique Belgium – Kongo The Nederlands– Indonesia France – North Africa
All seven countries declared as safe countries by the European Union are at the same time EU candidate countries.
True
Which document determines in which country asylum seekers have to apply for asylum within Europe?
The Dublin Regulation
What is Eurodac?
The European fringerprint database
The main differences between guest workers and post-colonial migrants are as follows:
- The integration of postcolonial migrants was facilitated by the common language. The intregration of guest workers was originally not enforced.
- Guest workers came as temporary work force whereas post-colonial migrants were meant to stay in the European destination countries.
- Guest workers came primarily as economic migrants whereas post-colonial migrants had further reasons to migrate.
True
What are the main concerns that human rights organizations raise about the EU-Turkey agreement?
- Conformity with international and European legal frameworks.
- The conditions in Turkey to meet human rights standards.
- The practice of “blanket returns” which means returning persons without giving them the chance to apply for asylum in Europe.
According to UNHCR over one Million people applied for asylum between April 2011 and July 2016. What are the two countries with the largest numbers of asylum applications in Europe?
Germany and Serbia
What are the improvements reached with the EU-Turkey Deal?
The numbers of people crossing the Mediterrenean Sea dropped drastically since March 2016.
Why was there a sharp drop in asylum statistics between 1991 and 1992 in Switzerland?
Because Switzerland declared the main origin countries of asylum as safe countries.
Which types of migration are characteristic for the time period between 1950 and 1970 in Europe?
Labor migration
Post colonial migration
According to which document is a refugee defined as follows?
A refugee is someone who “owing to a well‐founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to, or owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country.“
Geneva Convention
Why is Spain so attractive for irregular migrants? Please mark the arguments that Carmen González-Enríquez emphasized in her article “Spain: Irregularity as a rule”.
- Vibrant informal economy
- National tolerance towards illegality
- Provision of social rights
When have the guestworker programs been stopped by European governments?
1973
Historical-structural theories assume that every migrant is a rational human actor.This means that migrants will evaluate a cost-benefit analysis on how to maximize their annual income and productivity.
False:
Neoclassical theory assumes that every migrant is a rational human actor.
Historical Structuralism views migration as largely involuntary in that it results from systemic forces that are outside the control of the individuals who migrate.
In which year was the first guest worker program in Germany established?
1955
Ethnic diversity and migration challenge the idea of nationalism. This is the core idea that stamps the Age of Migration according to Castles, Miller and de Haan.
True
Contract workers in the GDR came solely from the following countries: Hungary CSSR (Czechoslovakia) Mozambique Kenya Kuba Indonesia
False:
did not come from Kenya and Indonesia, but Angola and Vietnam.
After which wave of migration did Enoch Powell call for more restrictions on immigration?
Post-colonial migration
Part of the guest worker programs was language education and other measures to prepare people for integration into German culture.
False:
Did not expect guest workers to stay
