TY - RPRT A1 - Rasche, Lucas A1 - Welfens, Natalie A1 - Engler, Marcus T1 - The EU Migration Pact at Two: What Remains of the Fresh Start? N2 - Two years after the presentation of the New Pact on Asylum and Migration, this policy brief takes stock of the negotiations. Although there has recently been some movement in the efforts to reform the EU asylum system, which have been stuck for years, little has remained of the promised "fresh start". The authors argue that the proposed reforms and the reference to individual progress in the negotiations seem increasingly out of touch with reality given the ongoing grievances at the EU's external borders. In view of the Council's and the European Parliament's (EP) goal of concluding negotiations by April 2024, the progressive forces in both institutions should use the remaining time to make access to a fair asylum procedure and respect for fundamental rights at the EU's external borders central building blocks of the reformed asylum system. KW - Migration, EU, Migration Pact, Asylum Reform Y1 - 2022 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-45325 UR - https://www.delorscentre.eu/en/publications/the-eu-migration-pact-at-two?Array=&cHash=21c28fbce088ced1efdd31e37a4567ad ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Welfens, Natalie T1 - Ungleicher Zugang. Kategorisierungspraktiken in deutschen humanitären Aufnahmeprogrammen für syrische Geflüchtete N2 - Dieser Beitrag beleuchtet die Frage, wie politische und soziale Kategorisierungen den Zugang zu Aufnahmeprogrammen regulieren und wie entstehende Ungleichheiten gerechtfertigt werden. Über humanitäre Aufnahmeprogramme nehmen europäische und andere sichere Länder eine begrenzet Zahl Schutzsuchender aus Erstzufluchtsländern auf. Auf Basis von Herkunft, Geschlecht, Alter und anderen Kategorien wird entschieden, wer ›am schutzbedürftigsten‹ ist und entsprechend umgesiedelt werden soll. Anhand der deutschen humanitären Aufnahmeprogramme für syrische Geflüchtete untersucht der Beitrag Kategorisierungspraktiken aus praxistheoretischer und intersektionaler Perspektive entlang des gesamten Aufnahmeprozesses. Dadurch wird einerseits die Verwobenheit verschiedener Kategorisierungspraktiken unterschiedlicher Akteur:innen und andererseits die Hierarchisierung von Schutzbedarf deutlich. Y1 - 2022 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-47196 U6 - https://doi.org/10.48462/opus4-4719 N1 - This is an author’s original manuscript, pre-peer-review version of an article published in Z'Flucht. Zeitschrift für Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.5771/2509-9485-2022-2-249 SP - 17 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Welfens, Natalie A1 - Bonjour, Saskia T1 - Seeking Legitimacy Through Knowledge Production: The Politics of Monitoring and Evaluation of the EU Trust Fund for Africa JF - JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies N2 - Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is a form of expert knowledge that is central to migration governance. This article analyses M&E of the EU Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF), created in 2015 to ‘fight the root causes of migration’. Combining institutionalist accounts with practice theory, we examine whether M&E knowledge production served the instrumental purpose of assessing policy impact or mainly legitimated particular policy actors and positions. We find that M&E did not produce evidence on whether the EUTF met its objectives. However, in the context of the EU's multiple crises, M&E knowledge production served to seek legitimacy not only for the EUTF, but also for the further fusion of development and migration policies, and for the EU as a competent and transparent actor. Our analysis highlights that knowledge use and knowledge production are connected, and that M&E knowledge politics allow for the legitimation of both actors and policies. Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13434 SN - 0021-9886 VL - 61 IS - 4 SP - 951 EP - 969 PB - Wiley ER -