nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230223-185216-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230223s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230223-185216-0 doi eng 342 23 Højberg Høgenhaug, Anna Author aut Departing from Hostile Refugee Landscapes - Women and girls from Afghanistan to be granted asylum in Denmark and Sweden Højberg Høgenhaug, Anna Verfassungsblog 2023-02-23 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In December 2022, the Swedish Migration Agency estimated that the Taliban’s conquest of Afghanistan has made the lives of Afghan women and girls so difficult that it counts as persecution based on gender. Against this background, the Migration Agency announced that all women and girls from Afghanistan are eligible to refugee status and a three-year residence permit in Sweden. These policies represent a major departure from the wide range of restrictive amendments that Denmark and Sweden, over the past decades, have introduced to their asylum laws with the aim of becoming less attractive target countries for asylum seekers. CC BY-SA 4.0 Afghanistan Denmark migration law Refugee Protection Sweden Taliban Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/departing-from-hostile-refugee-landscapes/ raw object