Reception of Female Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the EU – Case Study Belgium

Please note: Each In-Depth Analysis is assigned a DOI (digital object identifier), which is a safe and long term way of ensuring a hyperlink to the full text of this report. However, when ESO creates this record, on occasion the DOI still has not been activated by the EU Bookshop. If you find the source url hyperlink does not work please use the alternative location hyperlink listed as a related url.Upon request by the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) of the European Parliament, this note provides background information for the FEMM Committee mission to an asylum seeker reception centre in Jette. It presents both the EU and the Belgian legal framework concerning the reception of asylum seekers and examines how gender aspects have been taken into consideration in the context of the asylum application procedure and reception conditions in Belgium.

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European Parliament: Directorate-General for Internal Policies of the Union: Publications available via the EU Bookshop http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/directorate-general-for-internal-policies-of-the-union-cbf.cKABstF7wAAAEjwYYY4e5K/

European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: In-Depth Analysis, May 2016: Reception of Female Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the EU - Case Study Belgium http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2016/556946/IPOL_IDA(2016)556946_EN.pdf

ESO: Information Guide: European Migration Challenges http://www.europeansources.info/record/information-guide-european-migration-challenges/

ESO: Background information: In Europe's capital, a makeshift camp for refugees creates embarrassment http://www.europeansources.info/record/in-europes-capital-a-makeshift-camp-for-refugees-creates-embarrassment/

European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: Study, August 2016: Reception of Female Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the EU - Case Study Belgium and Germany http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2016/571364/IPOL_STU(2016)571364_EN.pdf

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