Publications

Articles with peer-review (19)

1. Between common responsibility and national interest: When do Europeans support a common European migration policy? (2024) European Union Politics, forthcoming. Supplementary material.

2. Allowing mobility Allowing mobility and preventing migration? The combination of entry and stay in immigration policies (2024) West European Politics, 47(4): 840-866. Supplementary material.

3. Migration governance through trade agreements: insights from the MITA dataset (2024) The Review of International Organizations, 19, 147–173. (with Sandra Lavenex and Paula Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik) Dataset

4. The Limits of EU Market Power in Migration Externalization: Explaining Migration Control Provisions in EU Preferential Trade Agreements (2023) Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyOnline. (with Paula Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik and Sandra Lavenex)

5. Expanding, Complementing, or Substituting Multilateralism? EU Preferential Trade Agreements in the Migration Regime Complex (2023) Politics and Governance, 11(2), 49-61. (with Paula-Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik and Sandra Lavenex) Supplementary material.

6. Third Country Access to EU Agencies: Exploring Spaces for Influence (2023) Journal of Common Market Studies, 61(6), 1563-1586. (with Sandra Lavenex)

7. Misperceptions about Immigration: Reviewing Their Nature, Motivations and Determinants (2023) British Journal of Political Science, 53(2), 674-689 . (with Marco Bitschnau) Supplementary material 

   1. • Blog post 'Misperceptions drive immigration politics and undermine democracy' The Loop (29.June 2022), Reposts by nccr - on the move & asile.ch (in French)

8. Citizens' response to a non-responsive government: the case of the Swiss Initiative on Mass Immigration (2023) Comparative European Politics, 21, 133–151. (with Klaus Armingeon)

9. Why do states admit refugees? A comparative analysis of resettlement policies in OECD countries (2022) Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies,  48(11): 2515-2539. (with Lea Portmann) Preprint / Replication files

   1. • Blog post 'Western countries use resettlement policies strategically' The Loop (09.12.2021), Repost by nccr on the move (11.01.2022) & EURAC research blog (11.04.2022)

      • RESET-OECD data set with indicators of resettlement policies, available on zenodo.

10. Explaining the immigration policy mix: The relative openness towards asylum and labour migration (2021) European Journal of Political Research, 60(4): 763-784. (with Caroline Schultz and Stephan Simon) Preprint / Supplementary Material / Replication Material

11. Responsibility-Sharing in Refugee Protection: Lessons from Climate Governance (2021) International Studies Quarterly, 65(2): 476-487. (with Anna Stünzi and Stefan Manser-Egli) Pre-print 

    1. • Think piece 'Making responsibility-sharing operational: Comparing asylum and climate governance' for 'Rethinking Refuge' (University of Oxford), Repost by nccr - on the move

       • Blog post 'Wie gelingt internationale Verantwortungsteilung' for DeFacto (27.05.2021)

12. External borders and internal freedoms: how the refugee crisis shaped the bordering preferences of European citizens (2021) Journal of European Public Policy, 28(3): 370-388. (with Felix Karstens) Supplemental material

    1. • Part of Special Issue 'Rebordering Europe? Europe's Crises and EU Boundary Formation' (edited by Frank Schimmelfennig)

       • Blog post on EUROPP (LSE) "How the 2015 migration crisis shaped the bordering preferences of EU citizens" (25.02.2021) 

13. Loved and feared: citizens’ ambivalence towards free movement in the European Union (2021) Journal of European Public Policy, 28(2): 268-288. Preprint / Supplemental Material

    1. • Blog post 'nccr on the move' "Personenfreizügigkeit in der Krise?" (25.08.2020)

       • Blog post 'UK in a changing Europe' "Brexit and public support for free movement" (09.04.2021)

14. Reassessing the gap-hypothesis: Tough talk and weak action in migration policy? (2021) Party Politics, 27(1): 174-186.

15. Humanitarian protection as a European public good: The strategic role of states and refugees (2020) Journal of Common Market Studies, 58(3): 757-775. (with David Kaufmann and Anna Stünzi) Preprint / Supplementary Material

    1. • JCMS blog post "Why European asylum policies should account for refugees' preferences" (27.02.2020)

16. Muddling between Responsiveness and Responsibility: The Swiss case of a non-implementation of a constitutional rule (2020) Comparative European Politics, 18, 256–280. (with Klaus Armingeon) Preprint / Supplementary Material

17. Variation in policy-success: Radical-right populism and migration policy (2019) West European Politics, 42(3): 517-544.                                           

    1. • included in the Virtual Special Issue “Migration, Immigration and Integration: Policy and Politics”

18. Public Acceptance of Incentive-Based Spatial Planning Policies: A Framing Experiment (2018) Land Use Policy, 73: 225-238. (with Lyn Pleger & Fritz Sager)       

    1. • DeFacto blog post “Wie über Raumplanungsinstrumente kommuniziert wird, kann deren Akzeptanz beeinflussen” (13.07.2018)

19. Two logics of policy intervention in immigrant integration: an institutionalist framework based on capabilities and aspirations (2017) Comparative Migration Studies 5(2): 1-19.

PhD dissertation

• Inside the Migration State: The Quest for Democratic Legitimacy (2019) University of Bern.

Book

• Neuland - Schweizer Migrationspolitik im 21.Jahrhundert (2017), Zürich: NZZ Libro Verlag. [Editor and co-author of several chapters]

Book chapters (7)

1. The legitimacy of the welfare state in the age of migration (2022). in: Greve, Bent (ed.): De Gruyter Handbook of Contemporary Welfare States. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 271-284. (with Carlo Knotz)

2. Migration: Conflicts Between Foreign and Domestic Policy  (2022) in: Bernauer, Thomas/Gentinetta, Katja/Kuntz, Joëlle (Hg.): A Swiss Foreign Policy for the 21st Century. Zürich: NZZ Libro. (with Sandra Lavenex and Paula Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik)

3. Migration: im Konflikt zwischen Aussen- und Innenpolitik (2021) in: Bernauer, Thomas/Gentinetta, Katja/Kuntz, Joëlle (Hg.): Eine Aussenpolitik für die Schweiz im 21. Jahrhundert. Zürich: NZZ Libro. (with Sandra Lavenex and Paula Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik) Preprint

4. Welfare states, demographic transition and immigration policies (2020) in: Careja, Romana/Emmenegger, Patrick/Giger, Nathalie (Ed.): The European Social Model under Pressure. Springer, pp 331-347. 

5. The Radical-Right in Power: A Comparative Analysis Of Their Migration Policy Influence (2019) in: Biard, Benjamin/Bernhard, Laurent/Betz, Hans-Georg (Hrsg.): Do they make a difference? The policy influence of radical right populist parties in Western Europe. ECPR-Press.

6. Das politische System der Schweiz und seine Kontaktpunkte zur Evaluation (2017) in: Fritz, Sager, Thomas Widmer, Andreas Balthasar, Evaluation im politischen System der Schweiz Entwicklung, Bedeutung und Wechselwirkungen. Zürich: NZZ Libro. (with Fritz Sager and Johanna Künzler) 

7. Mit Einwanderungsgebühr Migration schrittweise liberalisieren (2016) in: Migrationsland Schweiz. Zürich: Hier und Jetzt Verlag (with Stefan Schlegel and David Kaufmann)

Data

• Migration Provisions in Preferential Trade Agreements (MITA) Dataset (migration-related content of trade agreements worldwide, 1960 - 2020) Dataset article

• RESET-OECD dataset (Resettlement policy indicators for OECD countries, 1980 - 2019) Data / Codebook

• DEMIG Government Extension (Migration policy choices of 18 West European governments, 1980 - 2014)

Policy-Papers

• Zirkulärbewilligung: Das brachliegende Potential der Drittstaatenmigration (October 2020) foraus policy brief. (mit Nicolas Solenthaler und Noah Sutter)

•  Swiss Refugee Partnership: Eine neue Zulassungspolitik im Schweizer Asylwesen (Februar 2019) foraus-Diskussionspapier Nr. 38 (mit Stefan Brantschen, Lea Portmann, Nathalie Faoro, Flurina Wäspi) 

  • • Kurz-Zusammenfassung in AsylNews (Nr.3, September 2019)

• Prisoners of the Dublin Dilemma: How to reform the Common European Asylum System? (2017) foraus-Diskussionspapier Nr. 32. Zürich, Genf: foraus (with David Kaufmann, Anna Stünzi, Stefan Egli)

• Gefangen im Dublin-Dilemma - Wie kann die europäische Asylpolitik reformiert werden? (Dezember 2016) foraus-Diskussionspapier Nr. 32. Zürich, Genf: foraus (mit David Kaufmann, Anna Stünzi, Stefan Egli)

• Gefangen im Nullsummenspiel - Eine Bewertung der MEI-Umsetzungsvorschläge (Februar 2015) foraus-Diskussionspapier Nr. 23. Zürich, Genf: foraus.  (mit David Kaufmann)

Blog posts / Short articles

A New Pact on Migration and Asylum: What Changes for Responsibility-Sharing in the European Union? (2024) Blog post nccr on the move. Repost on DeFacto (also available in French and German) (with Maud Bachelet)

What have trade agreements to do with migration policy? (2023) Blog post Migration Policy Center (European University Institute)

Personenfreizügigkeit in der Krise? (2020) Blog post nccr on the move. Repost on DeFacto & Public talk

Why most people are wrong about immigration (2020) Article in Routed Migration and (Im)mobility Magazine (with Marco Bitschnau)

Wie kann die europäische Asylpolitik reformiert werden? (2019) Terra cognita - Schweizer Zeitschrift zu Integration und Migration: Asylpolitische Perspektiven, Ausgabe 35. (with Anna Stünzi, David Kaufmann and Stefan Manser-Egli)

Schengen-Dublin als öffentliches Gut eines integrierten Europas, Blog post nccr on the move, 17.Mai 2019 (with Stefan Manser-Egli)

Warum Heimat nach Gestaltung statt Konservierung verlangt (Blog post philosophie.ch, 28.Juni 2017).

Wie Migranten Muslime wurden (2017), Islam in der Schweiz, Bulletin der Schweizerischen Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften 2/2017.

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