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Access to Asylum and Reception Conditions in Western Balkans: Focus on Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia

This chapter discusses and compares the asylum systems in BiH and Croatia as two separate case studies before conducting a comparative analysis within the regional context. It provides insights into the establishment and development of the asylum systems as related to the external policy actors involved and then deals with practices and procedural issues related to access to asylum and reception conditions. Our discussion and analysis is based on comparative desk-study research (policy study) and qualitative study that involved 15 semi- structured, in-depth interviews with the asylum seekers, along with the longitudinal (six months) observation and monitoring of the reception conditions in the two countries. Finally, we conclude with discussion of findings focusing on the identified shortcomings of the asylum systems in the two countries and provide recommendations on how to address these and improve the refugees’ legal right to asylum in the Western Balkans.

refugees, access to asylum, reception conditions, integration, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia

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