Project details

Overview

This project will use multiple data sets from the UK and across Europe to investigate three specific aspects of the interplay between asylum policies and refugees’ outcomes:

• The influence of border control policies on the composition, size and direction of migrant and refugee flows, and the impact on the migration-related risk of death.
• The impact of different asylum and refugee policies on refugees’ socio-economic integration in the host countries
• The feedback into policy-making through the effect of refugee flows on natives’ voting behaviour.

The project will assess the effectiveness of asylum policies in reaching their stated objectives, but will also investigate other unintended, but potentially relevant, longer term consequences. The combined findings will provide policy-relevant evidence on the role of asylum policies.

Principal investigators

Dr Francesco Fasani

Dr Tommaso Frattini (co-investigator)

Funding

Open Door programme of the Nuffield Foundation

Funding period

April 2017 - April 2019