Artikel

European asylum policy before and after the migration crisis

The migration crisis of 2015–2016 threw the European asylum system into disarray. The arrival of more than two million unauthorized migrants stretched the system to its breaking point and created a public opinion backlash. The existing system is one in which migrants risk life and limb to gain (often unauthorized) entry to the EU in order to lodge claims for asylum, more than half of which are rejected. Reforms introduced during the crisis only partially address the system's glaring weaknesses. In particular, they shift the balance only slightly away from a regime of spontaneous asylum-seeking to one of refugee resettlement.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Journal: IZA World of Labor ; ISSN: 2054-9571 ; Year: 2020 ; Bonn: Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Classification
Wirtschaft
Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Subject
migration crisis
refugees
European asylum policy

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Hatton, Timothy J.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2020

DOI
doi:10.15185/izawol.480
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  • Hatton, Timothy J.
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2020

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