Working Paper on links between refugee recognition and resettlement processes

This paper will assess the workings of vulnerability in three interrelated key sets of institutional practices Given the focus on refugee recognition the risks that refugee protection will be undermined by treating refugees instead as vulnerable migrants will be explored It will examine the institutions and actors in RSD process its legal framework and the information in the public domain about its outcomes in terms of refugee recognition rates access to rights and security of residence The paper will therefore explore the links between resettlement and onward mobility and RRR as a further process that enables some few refugees deemed particularly vulnerable to move onwards This paper will be done by University of Oslo in cooperation with UNEW