Over the last decade the locus of policy-making towards asylum seekers and refugees has shifted away from national governments and towards the EU as the Common European Asylum Policy has developed. Most of the focus has been on the harmonisation of policies relating to border control, the...

This paper provides an overview of asylum migration from poor strife-prone countries to the OECD since the 1950s. I examine the political and economic factors in source countries that generate refugees and asylum seekers. Particular attention is given to the rising trend of asylum applications...

Allein im Jahr 2015 erreichten über 10.000 Geflüchtete und circa 2.500 unbegleitete Minderjährige Ausländerinnen und Ausländer das Land Bremen. Etwa die Hälfte der Geflüchteten ist jünger als 25 Jahre, also in einem Alter, in dem sich Jugendliche in Deutschland im Übergang zwischen...