The Common European Asylum System in Poland - Tema asyl ...

3 Methodology
3.1 Operationalising the research questions
I would as a first methodological step like to state how I have operationalised the
research questions. The first reads:
What are the prospects of Poland to implement the second phase of the Common
European Asylum System?
The second phase of the CEAS, which is developing right now, is as mentioned
the phase where the common asylum procedure and the uniform status for those
granted asylum is to be evolved and implemented (European Commission
2004:1). The way that the research question about the Polish implementation
prospects will be answered to, is through an analysis of the previous Polish
implementation performances, the present administrative conditions and the
socioeconomic situation.
The second research question reads:
Considering these prospects, are there any further requirements for the Common
European Asylum System to be legitimate in the Polish context?
Taking into account the results of the analysis regarding the CEAS second phase,
I will discuss from a broader and more normative perspective the requirements in
the Polish context for the Common European Asylum System to be entirely
legitimate when limiting the choice of country of asylum and, during at least five
years after the granting of protection in an EU member state, also the choice of
future country of residence for the individual asylum seeker.
3.2 Choice of case study country
In order to make a thorough and complete analysis of the conditions under which
the implementation of the future Common European Asylum System is likely to
succeed, I would have to conduct a vast number of studies across all the EU
member states. Both time and space are though limited in this study and I have
therefore concentrated on one case: Poland. I will thus aim at drawing conclusions
that are valid solely in the Polish context.
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