This report scrutinises the main theoretical and methodological debates that emerged throughout the PROTEMO project literature review process (WP1) in January-July 2024. Three literature review reports were delivered in July 2024, after an online workshop held in March 2024 and an in-person literature review workshop that occurred at Saarland University (Germany) in June 2024. The three reports focused on “Protective Policies and Affective Citizenship” (LRR1), “Emotional Needs and Emotional Entrepreneurs and Emotional Framing” (LRR2) and “Social Representations, Social Identities, Emotional Dynamics and Protection” (LRR3). The present report’s main objective is to summarise and explore June’s workshop debates, however, it frames these debates within the whole literature review process. It also includes the first version of the PROTEMO glossary of key terms, emerging from the three literature review reports. As the literature review process was guided by an interdisciplinary team, the current report also outlines geographical, cultural, epistemological and disciplinary issues, as well as how they are tackled through concepts of multi-layered and affective citizenship within PROTEMO. In the conclusion of this report, we describe the implications for the overall theoretical framework of PROTEMO, building on the Grant Agreement (Wenzelburger, Carbone, et al. 2023), as well as insights from the theoretical and methodological debates around the literature reviews.