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Journal of Refugee Studies 2005 18(4):454-467; doi:10.1093/refuge/fei040
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Journal of Refugee Studies Vol. 18, No. 4 © The Author [2005]. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

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Predictors of the Authorities' Decision to Grant Asylum in Denmark

Edith Montgomery

Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT), Copenhagen, Denmark

Anders Foldspang

Department of Health Services Research, Institute of Public Health, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark em{at}rct.dk

With the aim of identifying predictors for being granted a residence permit, adult members of 149 refugee families from the Middle East answered a structured interview shortly after arrival on social and demographic background and family exposure to organized violence. At follow-up, 90 families (60.4 per cent) had been granted a residence permit. This was positively associated with Iraqi nationality, with the duration of the father's education and the family's religion being another than Islam, and negatively with being a single mother family. No association was found with exposure to war, having lived in a refugee camp or to human rights violations. Without transparency of the asylum granting decision process the conclusion is that this seems to favour the selection of socially and culturally well situated refugees, while human rights violations seem to play a diminishing role. In order to develop its quality, continuous and transparent monitoring of the asylum granting decision process appears relevant.

MS received June 2004; revised MS received May 2005


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