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

implementation prospects of an EU reform, is that it is analytically interesting to
use material that is not issue of the EU itself.
Other important contributions to the empirical material of this study have
come from think tanks such as the Migration Policy Group in London, and from
publications of the UNHCR in Warsaw.
The material I have used on Poland and the Polish asylum system is solely the
material found available in English. This might imply limitations to the scope of
the material used, but was a necessity due to the limited extent of the study and
the fact that the use of documents in Polish would require translation.
3.6 Reflecting on the administrative approach
I look upon the concept of legal security in asylum investigations as made up of
two major components. One is the administrative part where rules and regulations
have to be respected correctly (i.e. the focus in this essay). The second part
consists of the culture in the national asylum services, of how the demands are
treated by the asylum investigators. A claim often stated is that there is a “culture
of disbelief” among the officials conducting asylum interviews and determining
refugee status (for further reading, see for example the dissertation of Eva
Norström, 2004). This is of course an important issue to address when striving for
a lawful asylum process. However as this essay has the character of an
administrative analysis with the implementation of EU directives in focus, I will
not explore this issue further.
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