People on the Move in BiH 2019-2021

People on the Move in BiH 2019-2021

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Product details
Date of Publication
March 2022
Publisher
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung - Offices Sarajevo and Thessaloniki
Number of Pages
54
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Language of publication
English
Table of contents

Abbreviations.....................................................................................................4
Researchers and Authors....................................................................................5
1. Introduction....................................................................................................7
1.1 Methodology...........................................................................................................12
2. Overview of the situation...............................................................................15
2.1 Reporting on the situation.......................................................................................15
2.2 Main actors and their roles......................................................................................16
2.2.1 Ministry of Security...............................................................................................17
2.2.2 Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees...............................................................19
2.2.3 The European Union and the Office of the EU Special Representative..................19
2.2.4 Coordination Body for Migrations Issues..............................................................20
2.2.5 International Organisation for Migration..............................................................21
2.2.6 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.................................................23
2.2.7 Danish Refugee Council.......................................................................................24
3. Access to accommodation/food and NFI........................................................25
3.1 Vučjak ....................................................................................................................27
3.2 Lipa - case study......................................................................................................28
3.2.1 Lipa 2020: Place of misery and political tensions..................................................29
3.2.2 The place of the “migration management opportunity”........................................32
3.3 Detention.................................................................................................................33
4. Freedom of movement...................................................................................35
5. Access to health care and COVID-19.............................................................37
5.1 COVID 19 and TRCs................................................................................................38
5.2 COVID 19 and people outside of the TRCs..............................................................39
6. Access to asylum...........................................................................................40
6.1 Asylum claims and decisions - the numbers ............................................................40
6.2 Problem of different treatment: refugee status and subsidiary protection...........................42
6.3 Support for the persons granted status....................................................................43
7. People from Afghanistan...............................................................................44
8. Pushbacks, Readmissions and Deportations..................................................45
9. Media reporting............................................................................................46
10. Instead of conclusion: open issues .............................................................48
Sources..............................................................................................................50
Publications.......................................................................................................50
Documents..........................................................................................................51