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In 2011, German police accidentally stumbled upon a previously unknown right-wing extremist group called the National Socialist Underground (NSU). Further investigations implicated the group in previously unexplained murders of mostly ethnically Turkish individuals and in other crimes targeting...
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received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on …We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that … relative rate at which they befriend local Syrian migrants versus German natives (relative friending). We follow the friending …
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About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and … irregular migrants for multiple origin and destination countries. Refugees and female irregular migrants are positively self … irregular migrants are self-selected. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World …
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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the host country, may suffer from serious cultural biases. Our study evades such biases by utilizing a destination-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to...
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How do staying minorities that evade ethnic cleansing integrate into re-settled communities? After World War Two, three million ethnic Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland, but some were allowed to stay, many of them left-leaning anti-fascists. We study quasi-experimental...
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Based on an extended welfare chauvinism concept that more systematically integrates the labor market and public finance aspects, this paper examines the impact of the refugee crisis − which culminated in the EU in 2015/16 − on changes in voting behavior in Germany (revealed in the two German...
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connecting them to the theories, policies and institutions. Return, repeat, and circular migrants are self-selected and extremely …
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The paper is structured around three main contributions. First, it takes advantage of a unique survey on Afghan asylum seekers in Germany to provide novel descriptive insights into asylum seekers' beliefs about their outcomes and the associated intention to overstay. Second, it estimates asylum...
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, circular and onward migration of the highly-skilled migrants around the world. After it describes the status quo in the …
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connecting them to the theories, policies and institutions. Return, repeat, and circular migrants are self-selected and extremely …
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