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.


Bureaucratic migration politics in West Africa: opportunities and dependencies created by EU funding

  • Type: Article
  • Year of Publication: 2023
  • Author(s): ROOS, Christof, TRAUNER, Florian, ADAM, Ilike
  • Citation: International Migration Review, 2023, Online First
  • Series/Report no.: [Migration Policy Centre]
  • Abstract: This article delves into the role of bureaucrats and administrations in the development of national migration policies in West Africa. Based upon 87 interviews conducted in Accra, Dakar, and Brussels, [...]
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A global network of scholars? The geographical concentration of institutes in migration studies and its implications

  • Type: Article
  • Year of Publication: 2023
  • Author(s): PICCOLI, Lorenzo, RUEDIN, Didier, GEDDES, Andrew
  • Citation: Comparative Migration Studies, 2023, Vol. 11, No. 16, OnlineFirst
  • Series/Report no.: [Migration Policy Centre]
  • Abstract: The study of international migration and responses to it has experienced rapid growth in the last three decades: an institutionalisation of migration studies. This paper identifies and specifies infrastructural and [...]
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Roads, rails, and checkpoints: assessing the permeability of nation-state borders worldwide

  • Type: Article
  • Year of Publication: 2023
  • Author(s): DEUTSCHMANN, Emanuel, GABRIELLI, Lorenzo, RECCHI, Ettore
  • Citation: World Development, 2023, Vol. 164, OnlineFirst
  • Series/Report no.: [Migration Policy Centre]
  • Abstract: The permeability of nation-state borders determines the flow of people and commodities between countries and therefore greatly influences many aspects of human development from trade and economic inequality to migration [...]
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Group-based protection of Afghan women and girls under the 1951 refugee convention

  • Type: Article
  • Year of Publication: 2023
  • Author(s): FEITH TAN, Nikolas, INELI CIGER, Meltem
  • Citation: International and comparative law quarterly, 2023, Vol. 72, No. 3, pp. 793-817
  • Series/Report no.: [Migration Policy Centre]
  • Abstract: The Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 deprived women and girls of their fundamental rights. The Taliban denied or severely restricted women and girls’ rights to education, work, healthcare, [...]
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Artificial intelligence and resettlement of refugees : implications for the fundamental rights

  • Type: Working Paper
  • Year of Publication: 2023
  • Author(s): INELI CIGER, Meltem
  • Series/Report no.: EUI, RSC, Working Paper, 2023/44, Migration Policy Centre
  • Abstract: The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in refugee resettlement can enable a high volume of resettlement cases to be decided quickly, lower the costs associated with resettlement, and foster the [...]
  • Keywords: AI, Machine learning, Resettlement, Refugees, Human rights
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A global network of scholars? : the geographical concentration of institutes in migration studies and its implications

  • Type: Article
  • Year of Publication: 2023
  • Author(s): PICCOLI, Lorenzo, RUEDIN, Didier, GEDDES, Andrew
  • Citation: Comparative migration studies, 2023, Vol. 11, No. 16, OnlineFirst
  • Series/Report no.: [Migration Policy Centre]
  • Abstract: The study of international migration and responses to it has experienced rapid growth in the last three decades: an institutionalisation of migration studies. This paper identifes and specifes infrastructural and [...]
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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
  • Author(s): DENNISON, James
  • 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 [...]
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What policy communication works for migration? Using values to depolarise

  • Type: Technical Report
  • Year of Publication: 2019
  • Author(s): DENNISON, James
  • 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 [...]
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Immigration narratives in the Euro-Mediterranean region: what people believe and why

  • Type: Technical Report
  • Year of Publication: 2021
  • Author(s): DENNISON, James
  • 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 [...]
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Strategic communication for migration policymakers: lessons from the State of the Science

  • Type: Technical Report
  • Year of Publication: 2021
  • Author(s): DENNISON, James
  • 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 [...]
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