ASYFAIR Germany dataset: asylum adjudication in Germany (2018/19)

The Project: ASYFAIR is a multi-disciplinary research project, employing a combination of methodologies to produce rich data sets on legal asylum procedures. The purpose of the study is to examine legal aspects of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS), which was reformed by the European Union in 2013 and that seeks to implement a set of standardise procedures of asylum determination. The ASYFAIR project offers the opportunity to assess progress towards harmonisation of asylum determination processes in Europe, and provides new conceptual frameworks with which to approach the dilemmas and risks of inconsistency in an area of law fraught with political controversy and uncertainty.

The ASYFAIR project examines legal appeal procedures at court determining asylum in Europe, and has collected first-hand qualitative and quantitative data at asylum courts in the UK, Germany, France, Austria and Belgium, as well as interview data in Italy and Greece. The project is at the interface between...