Ahead of the presentation of an EU migration pact and the next EU summit, Mattias Lücke, project head of the MEDAM project and senior researcher at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, comments on Germany’s capacity to receive more refugees:

The book looks at the potential use of the EU's external financial instruments to address the root causes of migration and refugee inflows.

Political trust matters for citizens’ policy preferences but existing research has not yet considered whether this effect depends on how policies are designed.

Introduction Most high-income countries make a strict distinction in their immigration poli-cies between refugees and those deemed to be labor migrants.

The paper highlights the challenges in meeting the Commission’s objective of building consensus between member states.

This article provides the first-ever analysis of the structure of public preferences for asylum and refugee policy, a highly politicized policy area that has attracted little scholarly attention to date.

The journal article provides analysis of the structure of public preferences for asylum and refugee policy, a highly politicized policy area that has attracted little scholarly attention to date.

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?

In 2015, German Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to allow over a million asylum seekers to cross the border into Germany. One key concern at the time wa