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.
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: 2019
- Series/Report no.: ICMPD policy report, 2019, [Migration Policy Centre]
- Abstract: The objective of this chapter is to answer the following question: what are the political effects of public attitudes to migration in the southern and eastern Mediterranean? To answer this [...]
What policy communication works for migration? Using values to depolarise
- Type: Technical Report
- Year of Publication: 2019
- Series/Report no.: ICMPD report, 2019, [Migration Policy Centre]
- Abstract: Studies of communication regarding migration have overwhelmingly focused on negative or unrepresentative portrayals of migrants in media, which are argued to often be hyperbolic in order to garner additional readers [...]
Immigration narratives in the Euro-Mediterranean region: what people believe and why
- Type: Technical Report
- Year of Publication: 2021
- Series/Report no.: ICMPD policy report, 2021, [Migration Policy Centre]
- Abstract: Narratives are regularly cited by migration policymakers and communicators as some of the most important determinants of public attitudes and behaviour regarding migration and a particularly powerful source of our [...]
Strategic communication for migration policymakers: lessons from the State of the Science
- Type: Technical Report
- Year of Publication: 2021
- Series/Report no.: ICMPD report, 2021, [Migration Policy Centre]
- Abstract: Policymakers and social scientists alike increasingly recognise the need to understand what makes effective strategic communication on migration issues. For policymakers, such communication may have multiple goals, such as to [...]
Re-thinking the drivers of regular and irregular migration: evidence from the Euro-Mediterranean
- Type: Technical Report
- Year of Publication: 2023
- Series/Report no.: ICMPD report, 2022, Migration Policy Centre
- Abstract: Migration is likely to remain one of the world’s most important and complex political challenges throughout the 21st century. Not only does migration have vast economic consequences, but its governance [...]
Using emotions in migration policy communication
- Type: Technical Report
- Year of Publication: 2023
- Series/Report no.: ICMPD report, 2023, [Migration Policy Centre]
- Abstract: What makes migration communication effective? How can we communicate on migration in a way that allows us to meet contemporary policy objectives, such as the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, [...]
Directory of migration research institutions
- Type: Dataset
- Year of Publication: 2023
- Series/Report no.: EUI Research Data, 2023, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, [Migration Policy Centre]
- Abstract: The global Directory of Migration Research Institutions (DMRI) provides a comprehensive mapping of dedicated centres and institutes that pool resources for training researchers with special focuses on migration in the [...]
- Keywords: Migration, Migration studies
Resurrecting taboo policies? Explaining collective regularisations for unauthorised immigrants during the Covid-19 pandemic in Southern Europe
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2023
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSC, 2023/31, Migration Policy Centre
- Abstract: Collective regularisation programmes providing legal status to unauthorised immigrants were frequently used by European countries until the late 2000s, when they fell out of fashion. In 2020, at the start [...]
- Keywords: Public health, Immigration policy, Covid-19, Irregular migration, Southern Europe
A novel method for studying policymaking: Policy Process Analysis (PPA) applied to the refugee crisis
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2023
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSC, 2023/24, Migration Policy Centre
- Abstract: This paper introduces a comprehensive method for data collection and analysis, which systematically records and evaluates various features of policy debates across space, time, and issue areas within selected policy [...]
- Keywords: Policy Process Analysis, Media data, Actor coalitions, Politicization, Framing
Public opinion and immigration in Europe : can regional migration flows predict public attitudes to immigration
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2023
- 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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