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Aid and Migration

With the refugee and displacement crisis aggravated by the Syrian’s conflict and the arrival of thousands of migrants on the southern European coasts, there is growing pressure on the European Commission and the most affected EU member states to find a quick way to effectively manage the migration flows, and many see foreign aid as an essential part of the solution. To this matter, the partnership agreements recently signed by the EU with countries of origin, transit and first asylum explicitly include foreign aid as a key ingredient to address long term goals such as promoting development and addressing the root causes of irregular migration as well as short term emergency.

The research project first investigates the channels through which Foreign Aid can affect the decision to migrate in the countries of origin. We revisit and explore empirically the aid migration link by using migrant flows rather than migrant stocks as the dependent variable and a substantially extended and adjusted econometric approach based on a gravity model of international migration.

On the donor side, our project investigates how the pattern of official development assistance (ODA) allocation is responding to the current refugee and migration crises. Previous research conducted has shown that underlying interests of donor states seem to be less focused on altruistic burden sharing motives, since first asylum host countries, as well as countries with a high number of IDPs, were rather discriminated in allocated aid funds. This research explores if and to what extent the EU recent approach in foreign policies – which sees burden sharing and migration prevention as two policy alternatives with possibly very similar underlying interests of EU donor countries – changed these past trends.


Experts

  • Mauro Lanati
  • Rainer Thiele

Publications

  • The Impact of Foreign Aid on Migration Revisited

    April 2017

    In this working paper, the authors revisit the aid-migration link using a substantially extended and adjusted econometric approach. Contrary to previous literature, they obtain evidence of a negative relationship between aid and emigration rates.

  • 2017 MEDAM Assessment Report on Asylum and Migration Policies in Europe

    May 2017

    How can the responsibility for refugees be distributed more fairly – globally and within the EU? And how can we curb irregular migration while expanding legal immigration to the benefit of all concerned? These and other questions are addressed in the first MEDAM assessment report.

  • 2018 MEDAM Assessment Report on Asylum and Migration Policies in Europe

    May 2018

    The challenges in asylum and migration policy require a comprehensive approach with broad support by all EU member states. In our assessment report we propose a strategy based on the concept of ‘flexible solidarity’.

  • Foreign Assistance and Migration Choices: Disentangling the Channels

    November 2018

    Exploring the mechanisms through which foreign aid might affect migration decisions, we run gravity-type regressions for the short impact and late impact aid. We find a strongly negative impact of late-impact aid, which suggests that donors may be able to dampen migrant inflows by focusing on improved public services.

  • Development Aid Can Deter Migration If It Improves Public Services

    December 2018

    Since the 2015 refugee crisis and the arrival of thousands of migrants on the Southern European coasts, there has been pressure on the European Commission and the most affected EU member states to find ways to effectively manage (and deter) migration.




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