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In recent years, asylum policy and refugee protection have been the subject of constant debate in German domestic politics. The number of asylum claims has been on the rise since 2009, and doubled…

Worldwide, refugee numbers are on the rise. This trend is reflected in rising numbers of asylum applications in Germany - a development that challenges the national asylum system and corresponding…

The 1951 Geneva Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its additional Protocol of 1967 form the basis of international refugee law. Within this framework, there are several different forms…

Since the mid-1990s German asylum law has become increasingly framed by common European regulations on refugee protection. It is subject to jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice and the…

After the Second World War Germany adopted a comparatively permissive approach to the right to asylum. This was severely curbed by a reform known as "Asylum Compromise" in 1992/1993, leading to…

With the number of asylum applications on the rise, refuge and asylum have once again become a central issue of domestic politics in Germany. However, given the impact of international and EU…

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