Presentation by the FFVT Project at the Federal Press Conference

The joint project “Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer” (FFVT), which is implemented by, among other institutions, at the FAU Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU CHREN), presented its “Global Flight Report 2024” – published by S. Fischer Verlag – at the Federal Press Conference in Berlin on May 27, 2024. This year’s focus is the current reform of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS), which Prof. Dr. Petra Bendel critically commented on in the report. You can find more information about this year’s report (German) here.

This year’s report attracted significant media interest in Germany. A selection (German) is available here:

• „Migration:Welche Risiken die europäische Asylreform birgt“ (Süddeutsche Zeitung, 28.05.2024)
• „Report Globale Flucht 2024: Migrationsexperten stellen EU-Asylreform ein vernichtendes Zeugnis aus“ (RP-Online, 27.05.2024)
• „Forscher: Reform des Europäischen Asylsystems untergräbt Schutzrechte“ (evangelisch.de, 27.05.2024)
• „Flüchtlinge: Experten: EU-Asylreform mit Blick auf Menchenrechte problematisch“ (unternehmen-heute.de, 27.05.2024)
• „Migration Report Globale Flucht 2024 vorgestellt“ (Deutschlandfunk, 27.05.2024) (ab Minute 3:26)
• „’Reports Globale Flucht 2024′:Forscher: Reform des Europäischen Asylsystems untergräbt Schutzrechte“ (Migazin, 27.05.2024)
• „Experten: EU-Asylreform gefährdet Kindeswohl und Menschenrechte“ (BR, 27.05.2024)
• „Report vorgestellt: Institute sehen “Schieflage” bei EU-Asylreform“ (regionalHeute.de, 27.05.2024)
• „Migrationsforscher vermissen Pläne für nachhaltige Flüchtlingspolitik“ (web.de, 27.05.2024)
• „Migrationsforscher kritisieren Reform des EU-Asylsystems“ (evangelische-zeitung.de, 27.05.2024)

Prof. Dr. Petra Bendel was also interviewed on Tagesthemen (German) about the reform of the European Asylum System:

• „Europawahlen Wie wirkt EU-Asylpolitik?“ (tagesthemen, 27.05.2024)

The “Global Flight Report” published by S. Fischer Verlag is the first regularly issued German-language publication on the topic of displacement. It is published annually by the joint project.

The collaborative project “Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer” (FFVT) aims to strengthen interdisciplinary research on forced migration and refugees in Germany. To this end, the project, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) , brings together research on migration, development, conflict and violence, climate change, health, governance and human rights and other topics. In this way, FFVT supports the networking of researchers and institutes working in all relevant fields of research dealing with forced migration. Implementing Institutions are Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC), Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (CHREN, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) and Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS, Universität Osnabrück).