This article examines how international relation dynamics shape asylum policies. Using data on asylum applications in …-humanitarian factors in the grant of political asylum …

minimize the cost of asylum provision for host countries. Second, a matching system gives refugees more discretion over where …

We review and interpret research on the economic and political effects of receiving asylum seekers and refugees in … of the paper, we examine the consequences of receiving asylum seekers and refugees and identify two main findings. First … work suggests that the arrival of asylum seekers and refugees can fuel the rise of anti-immigrant populist parties, which …

A minority of applicants for asylum in Europe gain some form of recognition as refugees, and this has been a … controversial issue. From the early 2000s the EU introduced a series of directives to prevent a race to the bottom in asylum … examine the determinants of recognition rates for asylum applicants from 65 origin countries to 20 European destinations from …

Asylum migration is a major societal challenge in the Western world affecting residents' policy preferences. We analyze … the effects of newly hosting asylum seekers in a given municipality on local citizens' preferences in terms of migratory … administrative placement of asylum seekers across municipalities and find that citizens vote temporarily slightly more restrictively …

In 2015, German Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to allow over a million asylum seekers to cross the border into …