The present dominant tendency of economization and securitization of forced migration to our region and to the EU as a whole is the subject of a critical analysis in the paper. The global corporate media as representatives of the interests of the elites of the rich countries are presenting...

This contribution investigates the opportunities of migration for developing countries. The benefits of migration for sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and even return home at some time with better human...

The paper examines the claim of forced migration due to increasing environmental calamities by first citing various relevant studies on different countries. The review of the existing studies gives rise to a mixed conclusion. Some countries really exhibit the phenomenon of forced migration but...

Millions of forcibly displaced people apply for asylum every year facing uncertain outcomes. What can explain cross-country heterogeneity in these outcomes? This study provides estimates of the determinants of asylum admission policies in host countries using a bilateral panel data set covering...

Der Zustrom mehrerer Hunderttausend Menschen, die vor Krieg, Terror, Armut und Zukunftslosigkeit in ihren Heimatländern nach Europa fliehen, hat bei vielen Menschen diffuse Ängste ausgelöst. Sie erwarten von der Politik rasche Lösungsvorschläge. Können die vielfältigen Fluchtursachen mit...

The new European Commission will inherit an impasse in efforts to reform the European asylum system as well as concerns about practices in the management of the EU's external border that contradict humanitarian standards and may even be illegal. While the number of asylum seekers who manage to...