Communication in the Dutch Asylum Procedure

Communication in the Dutch Asylum Procedure

The study describes and analyses the interaction between asylum seekers, lawyers and immigration officers with a view to ascertaining whether the treatment and outcome of an asylum application varies depending on how the interaction takes place.

Nienke Doornbos

• Leny de Groot-van Leeuwen
• Kees Groenendijk

Book: De papieren asielzoeker. Institutionele communicatie in de asielprocedure
(“The paper asylum seeker. Interaction in the asylum procedure”), Nijmegen: GNI 2003

Book: Op verhaal komen. Institutionele communicatie in de asielprocedure. (PhD thesis RU Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) (XIV, 311 pag.) Nijmegen: Wolf Legal Publishers 2006

• Federation of Refugee Associations,
• Immigration and Nationality Department (IND),
• Legal Aid Councils,
• Dutch Refugee Council,
• Law Faculty, Radboud University Nijmegen