National report on the governance of the asylum reception system in Germany

CEASEVAL Working papers No.23 

In this report we present an overview over the complex reception system in Germany. We find that due to Germany’s federal system, that there is not one reception system, but 16 different ones. Further, asylum procedure and reception governance are heavily interlinked and requires the cooperation and coordination of multiple actors, including non-state actors. Legislation passed in recent years, that allows for further differential treatment of asylum seekers by nationality will lead to further reception divergence, but one based on nationality. In this report we further investigate the interaction of actors in two local case studies – Chemnitz and Aachen.

Keywords: Germany, Reception, Governance Asylum seekers, Refugees, Saxony, North RhineWestphalia, decision making, civil society