Our publications include academic publications (peer-reviewed books, journal articles, and book chapters), working papers (presenting work in-progress), a wide range of research and policy reports (primarily aimed at a non-academic audience), and blogs. For an overview of ongoing MPC research projects, click here.
A need for control? : political trust and public preferences for asylum and refugee policy
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2020
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, 2020/01, Migration Policy Centre
- Abstract: Political trust matters for citizens’ policy preferences but existing research has not yet considered whether this effect depends on how policies are designed. To fill this gap, this article analyses [...]
Out there on your own : absence of the spouse and migrants' integration outcomes
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2020
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, 2020/04, Migration Policy Centre
- Abstract: In many countries, policies on family reunification of migrants are under review. Rules have become more restrictive in a number of cases, with unknown consequences for integration. This paper investigates [...]
Impact of public attitudes to migration on the political environment in the Euro-Mediterranean region : Second chapter: southern partner countries
- Type: Technical Report
- Year of Publication: 2020
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, Migration Policy Centre, OPAM
- Abstract: This chapter overviews public attitudes to migration in Southern Partner Countries (SPCs) and considers their effects on migration politics and policies in the region over the past 20 to 30 [...]
Fundamental rights challenges in border controls and expulsion of irregular immigrants in the European Union
- Type: Book
- Year of Publication: 2020
- Citation: London : Routledge, 2020
- Series/Report no.: [Migration Policy Centre]
- Abstract: This edited volume examines the extent to which the various authorities and actors currently performing border management and expulsion-related tasks are subject to accountability mechanisms capable of delivering effective remedies [...]
Migration policy scoreboard : a monitoring mechanism for EU asylum and migration policy
- Type: Other
- Year of Publication: 2020
- Series/Report no.: Policy Briefs, 2020/11, Migration Policy Centre
- Abstract: Managing migration across the EU’s external border requires a comprehensive policy response. For policies to be effective, member states need to work together and share responsibility in several policy areas, [...]
The complex relationship between immigrants' concentration, socioeconomic environment and attitudes towards immigrants in Europe
- Type: Article
- Year of Publication: 2020
- Citation: Ethnic and racial studies, 2020, OnlineFirst
- Series/Report no.: [Migration Policy Centre]
- Abstract: Research has shown that positive attitudes towards immigration are often associated with a higher presence of immigrants at the local level; however, this relationship might not apply everywhere. While a [...]
In their own words : children and the facilitation of migrant journeys on the U.S.-Mexico border
- Type: Article
- Year of Publication: 2020
- Citation: Victims and offenders, 2020, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 370-389
- Series/Report no.: [Migration Policy Centre]
- Abstract: This essay documents a qualitative study of the perspectives of a group of children from neighbourhoods (called colonias) with a history of involvement in the facilitation for profit of irregular [...]
Victimization, offending and resistance in Mexico : toward critical discourse and grounded methodologies in organized crime research
- Type: Article
- Year of Publication: 2020
- Citation: Victims and offenders, 2020, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 390-393
- Series/Report no.: [Migration Policy Centre]
- Abstract: Granted, critical, empirically-based research on highly politicized criminalized practices is difficult to carry out. And therefore citing the clandestine nature of illicit markets, or often legitimate concerns over personal safety, [...]
Victimization and offending in Mexico : the three-pronged security challenges of trafficking, kidnapping, and smuggling
- Type: Article
- Year of Publication: 2020
- Citation: Victims and offenders, 2020, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 291-294
- Series/Report no.: [Migration Policy Centre]
- Abstract: This special issue empirically interrogates the scholarship that in the name of security has been mobilized in contemporary Mexico. That is, the kind that has relied on the notion of [...]
The Strasbourg court judgement 'N.D. and N.T. v Spain' : a 'carte blanche' to push backs at EU external borders?
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2020
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, 2020/21, Migration Policy Centre
- Abstract: This Paper examines the 'N.D. and N.T v Spain' judgment by the European Court of Human Rights (EtCHR) of 13 February 2020. The Grand Chamber of the Strasbourg Court concluded [...]
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