The Refugees' Integration between European Guarantees and Domestic Policies

The study aims to give contribution for the new phase of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS).
Hence, we suggest paying more attention in finding a suitable solution for refugees within the EU (European Union) territory, in particular thanks to the local integration and the naturalisation process within Member States.
In addition, the research helps EU national and local authorities to engage themselves in a successful process on integration of refugees.

The analysis focuses upon recognized refugees lawfully staying in the EU territory. The group includes refugees under the 1951 Geneva Convention and persons with the subsidiary protection status.
We do not include asylum seekers and beneficiaries of other forms of protection (e.g. beneficiaries of temporary protection) because additional provisions are necessary for them.

The problem statement relies on a poor EU legislative guarantee and an ineffective EU political evolution on the integration procedure of refugees within Member States.
As a result, domestic policies on refugee integration have few points in common and national authorities miss in having common guidelines for the implementation of a comprehensive strategy in favour of a durable solution for refugees in the new local community.

In order to comply with these objectives, a multi method research strategy was built.
It is both based on a legislative and juridical evaluation (in part I) and a social investigation (in part II).

Data were collected from multiple sources.
The first part of the study relies on an accurate research which considers both the international and EU level of protection in different fields: refugees' protection, TCNs' integration and human rights' protection.
Here, a conceptual framework was created.
From this, it was possible select a set of indicators considered important for the local integration of refugees, independently from which EU country the refugee wishes to establish.

Thanks to the indicators, the study collected a number of national and local best practises suitable to be transferred in other Member States.
In order to facilitate the implementation of the domestic policy of refugee integration, the research is divided in "integration dimensions".
The inductive procedure permits finally to create a system-conceptual-ideal model.