Publications

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.


Public opinion and immigration in Europe : can regional migration flows predict public attitudes to immigration

  • Type: Working Paper
  • Year of Publication: 2023
  • Author(s): DRAŽANOVÁ, Lenka, GONNOT, Jerome
  • Series/Report no.: EUI RSC, 2023/18, Migration Policy Centre
  • Abstract: This article investigates how European public opinion has responded to short-term variations in regional foreign-born immigration over the past decade (2010-2019). Combining data from the European Social Survey and the [...]
  • Keywords: Attitudes to immigration, Migration flows, Public opinion, Regions
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EU responses to the large-scale refugee displacement from Ukraine : an analysis on the temporary protection directive and its implications for the future EU asylum policy

  • Type: Book
  • Year of Publication: 2023
  • Author(s): CARRERA, Sergio, INELI CIGER, Meltem
  • Citation: Firenze : European University Institute, 2023
  • Series/Report no.: [Migration Policy Centre]
  • Abstract: This Book examines the European Union’s policy responses to large-scale dis- placement of refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine and the activation and imple- mentation of the Temporary Protection Directive [...]
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The European Union : from politics to politicization

  • Type: Contribution to book
  • Year of Publication: 2022
  • Author(s): GEDDES, Andrew, HADJ-ABDOU, Leila
  • Citation: James F. HOLLIFIELD, Philip L. MARTIN, Pia M. ORRENIUS and François HÉRAN (eds), Controlling immigration : a comparative perspective, fourth edition, Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2022, pp. 683-705
  • Series/Report no.: [Migration Policy Centre]
  • Abstract: Andrew Geddes and Leila Hadj Abdou’s chapter on the European Union first de-serves praise for their apt, comprehensive, and didactic description of EU preroga-tives in the area of migration, asylum, [...]
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The interdependency of border bureaucracies and mobility intermediaries : a street level view of migration infrastructuring

  • Type: Article
  • Year of Publication: 2023
  • Author(s): INFANTINO, Federica
  • Citation: Comparative migration studies, 2023, Vol. 11, Art. 1, OnlineOnly
  • Series/Report no.: [Migration Policy Centre]
  • Abstract: Building on the case of visa procedures, this article analyses the relationship between border bureaucracies and intermediaries understood as actors, organisations and knowledge that facilitate, shape, and enable human mobility. [...]
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Why did the UK leave the EU? : the state of the science of explaining Brexit

  • Type: Contribution to book
  • Year of Publication: 2023
  • Author(s): DENNISON, James
  • Citation: John Erik FOSSUM and Christopher LORD (eds), Handbook of the European Union and Brexit, Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 2023, pp. 26-41
  • Series/Report no.: [Migration Policy Centre]
  • Abstract: Explaining why the United Kingdom (UK) left the European Union (EU) has become something of a cottage industry since 2016. Not only was the outcome a notable electoral upset, a [...]
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The role of human values in support for EU membership

  • Type: Article
  • Year of Publication: 2021
  • Author(s): DENNISON, James
  • Citation: Journal of cross-cultural psychology, 2021, Vol. 52, No. 4, pp. 372-387
  • Series/Report no.: [Migration Policy Centre]
  • Abstract: In recent years, there has been greater scholarly enquiry into explaining variation in support for European Union membership. We theorise that one cause of such variation is likely to be [...]
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How migrant resource centres affect migration decisions : quasi-experimental evidence from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iraq and Pakistan

  • Type: Article
  • Year of Publication: 2022
  • Author(s): DENNISON, James
  • Citation: International migration, 2022, OnlineOnly
  • Series/Report no.: [Migration Policy Centre]
  • Abstract: Several Migrant Resource Centres (MRCs) have been set up in South Asia jointly by national governments of origin and destination countries. Their objectives include encouragement of potential migrants to seek [...]
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Public opinion and the politics of migration

  • Type: Contribution to book
  • Year of Publication: 2022
  • Author(s): DENNISON, James, VRANCEAU, Alina
  • Citation: Peter SCHOLTEN (ed.), Introduction to migration studies : an interactive guide to the literatures on migration and diversity, Cham : Springer, 2022, IMISCOE Research Series, pp. 375-388
  • Series/Report no.: [Migration Policy Centre]
  • Abstract: Identifying and describing attitudes to immigration, let alone explaining them and their effects, is not a simple matter. In this chapter, we first outline the major scholarly works explaining attitudes [...]
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Narratives : a review of concepts, determinants, effects, and uses in migration research

  • Type: Article
  • Year of Publication: 2021
  • Author(s): DENNISON, James
  • Citation: Comparative migration studies, 2021, Vol. 9, Art. 50, OnlineOnly
  • Series/Report no.: [Migration Policy Centre]
  • Abstract: Narratives are increasingly cited by scholars, international organisations, NGOs, and governments as one of the most powerful factors in migration politics and policymaking today. However, narratives are typically conceptually underspecified, [...]
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What determines the shape of migrant and non-migrant populations’ attitudes toward immigration in Europe?

  • Type: Working Paper
  • Year of Publication: 2023
  • Author(s): ŠEDOVIČ, Michaela, DRAŽANOVÁ, Lenka
  • Series/Report no.: EUI RSC, 2023/04, Migration Policy Centre
  • Abstract: Attitudes toward immigration are usually investigated from the non-migrant residents’ perspective. Much less is known about how perceptions of immigration policy and immigrants vary across immigration background lines, especially in [...]
  • Keywords: Attitudes toward immigration, Interethnic relations, Group membership, Diversity, Immigrants’ integration
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