Reduction or deflection? The effect of asylum policy on interconnected asylum flows

Brekke, Jan-Paul; Røed, Marianne; Schøne, Pål

doi:10.1093/migration/mnx031

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“…Brekke et al. () reach a similar result with regard to asylum seekers: stricter asylum policies reduce the number of new asylum seekers not only by reducing the outflows from the countries of origin, but also by deflecting the flow to other destination countries thereby increasing immigration flows in these countries.…”

Section: Do Immigration Policies Matter?mentioning

confidence: 84%

Controlling immigration? How regulations affect migration flows

Helbling

Leblang

2018

European J Political Res

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The aim of this article is to investigate whether or not and how immigration policies affect immigration flows. Such policy impacts have hardly been investigated so far as the necessary data is lacking. For the first time, two new datasets are combined to systematically measure immigration policies and bilateral migration flows for 33 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) destination countries from over 170 countries of origin over the period 1982–2010. The study finds that immigration policies have an important effect on immigration flows and thus that states are able to control their borders. To some extent the control capacities depend on other factors in attracting or deterring immigrants. The article shows that the deterrence effect of restrictive immigration policies increases when unemployment rates are high. It appears that, in these contexts, states start to care more about effectively protecting their national economy. Moreover, policies are more effective for migrant groups from former colonies or when the stock of this group is already high in a destination country. In these circumstances, information on border regulations are more easily disseminated, which in turn makes them more effective.

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Section: Do Immigration Policies Matter?mentioning

confidence: 84%

Controlling immigration? How regulations affect migration flows

Helbling

Leblang

2018

European J Political Res

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“…Developments in transportation, information and communication technologies have enhanced mobility of asylum seekers, providing them with more choices in destinations. Further, asylum-policy restrictions in traditional destination countries have forced asylum seekers to consider alternative destinations (Brekke et al, 2017).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is only very recent that scholars have examined the factors contributing to asylum migration (Brekke et al, 2017). Until the 1990s, there was less need for studying this topic, as asylum flows were observed primarily between particular origins and particular destinations.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, the degree to which nation-states are ensured to protect people with autonomy is diverse. The strictness of asylum policies, which are supposed to be fair across destination countries, show disparities even after controlling for the characteristics of asylum seekers in different countries (Holzer et al, 2000;Neumayer, 2005a;Schuster, 2011;Toshkov, 2014;Brekke et al, 2017). Betts (2013) contends that asylum migration should be analysed in relation to the fundamental question: which groups of asylum seekers are entitled protection?…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Push and Pull Factors Contributing Towards Asylum Migration from Developing Countries to Developed Countries Since 2000

Matsui

Raymer

2020

International Migration

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In the early 2000s, asylum seekers went primarily to destinations their countries had historical relationships, including former colonial ties, common languages and ethnic networks. Since the mid-2000s, there has been a shift towards asylum seekers arriving in destinations without such relationships. In this study, we apply spatial interaction models to understand the factors contributing to recent asylum migration from developing countries to developed countries from 2001 to 2015. We find that the push factors of political terror, civil rights violation and poverty do not result in increased asylum migration to developed countries. Instead, they act to reduce the number of asylum seekers. We also find that interactions between a range of push factors are important for understanding the movements and that immigration policies can have considerable effects on the destination choices of asylum seekers.

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“…To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to study the research question posed in this paper causally. Most of the existing studies use cross-country data and examine how differences in migration-related policies and institutions in host as well as destination countries are related to asylum seekers' choice of country (see, e.g., Hatton, 2009, Brekke et al, 2017, Ortega and Peri, 2009, Neumayer, 2004and Böcker and Havinga, 1998). These cross-country studies do however suffer from unsolved endogeneity problems (stemming from the endogenous location choice of refugees); see the discussion in, e.g., Brekke et al (2017).…”

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Spillover effects of stricter immigration policies

Bratu

Dahlberg

Engdahl

et al. 2020

Journal of Public Economics

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We evaluate the importance of spillover effects of national migration policies by estimating the effect of stricter rules on family reunification in Denmark in 2002 on migration to neighboring countries. We reach two main conclusions. First, we show that stricter rules for reunification lead to a clear and significant increase in emigration of Danish citizens with immigrant background. Most of the emigrants left Denmark for Sweden, a neighboring country in which reunification was possible. Second, we demonstrate that a significant fraction of the individuals that came to Sweden to reunite with a partner left the country again; within two (eight) years around 20% (50%) had left, with the absolute majority leaving for Denmark. Our results indicate that potential spillover effects from national migration policies should be taken into account when forming migration policy.

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Reduction or deflection? The effect of asylum policy on interconnected asylum flows

Cited by 8 publications

References 7 publications

Controlling immigration? How regulations affect migration flows

Controlling immigration? How regulations affect migration flows

The Push and Pull Factors Contributing Towards Asylum Migration from Developing Countries to Developed Countries Since 2000

Spillover effects of stricter immigration policies

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