Les réfugiés

Carlier, Jean-Yves

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“…In the period covered by this research (1992‐2003), three major legislative amendments must be considered: the changes to the Aliens Act in May 1993 and July 1996, and the amendment of the Public Centres of Social Welfare Act in January 2001 3 . These amendments speed up the procedure, in part by extending the grounds on which a request for recognition may be declared inadmissible, broadening the measures limiting applicants’ freedom, and restricting the financial support they may receive while in the country (see Bernard et al., 1998; Bossuyt et al., 1990; Carlier, 1989; Declercq, 1987; Denys, 1989; Foblets and Parmentier, 1993; Saroléa, 1998; Vanheule, 1990).…”

Section: Overview Of the Legislative Amendmentsmentioning

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Asylum Legislation and Asylum Applications: A Geographical Analysis of Belgian Asylum Policy by Country of Origin (1992‐2003)

Vanheule

Witlox

2010

International Migration

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In many European countries a traditional policy and legal response to an undesirable increase of asylum applications has been the change of asylum law and procedures. By making it more difficult to obtain asylum and refugee status, the attractiveness as a possible country of asylum is believed to diminish. In the period from 1992 to 2003 three major revisions of the Belgian asylum procedure were enacted. When speaking in absolute figures these changes resulted in a certain decrease in the number of asylum applications filed. However, upon a closer examination of the number of asylum applications per country of origin, the effects appeared to be quite differential. Hence, factors other than geographical ones, such as the location of the country of origin or distance, must be decisive for the effect of a change in legislation on the number of asylum claimants coming from one particular country. Nevertheless, it has been possible to distinguish seven clusters of countries of origin where similar developments in patterns of asylum applications and shifts therein, depending on changes in asylum law, can be seen.

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Section: Overview Of the Legislative Amendmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%