The section Refugees in CEE explores forced migration in Central and Eastern Europe, it points out similarities and differences in the experience of various actors involved in forced migration and it views the problem of refugees in Central Europe from different perspectives. It is interested in diverse experience and problems that asylum seekers and refugees have come through. What does it mean to be a refugee in Central and Eastern Europe? How do newly created or dissolved borders influence refugees’ strategies? What are the social, psychological and political aspects of the process of integration of refugees? In what ways are refugees involved in transnational networks and how does that affect their lives? We also want to analyze asylum policies and public policy measures concerning refugees and to discuss their problematic sides. What is the development of national asylum policies in the interaction with EU migration discourses? How are these policies negotiated by political and social actors on different levels and how are they put into everyday practice (at the borders of EU, when contacting authorities, in refugee camps)? How is the status of international protection differentiated and what is its impact on protection and social status of refugees?

Please send your ideas, articles, commentaries and other kind of contributions to the section coordinator: Radka Klvaňová, radka.klvanova(at)gmail.com.

Photograph by Valeriy Pankov.