This paper provides a micro-founded theory of multilateral resistance to migration analyzing how financial constraints determine migration trends. We build a RUM model in which we explicitly introduce the budget constraint in the migration decision:...

Reducing irregular migration from Africa to Europe is one important objective of the new European Commission in its relations with many African countries. The Commission and EU member states need to acknowledge that effective migration management...

The European Commission is currently finalizing its proposed New Pact on Migration and Asylum to re-start the debate on how to reform the common Europea

This article provides the first-ever analysis of the structure of public preferences for asylum and refugee policy, a highly politicized policy area tha

The new EU Commission should now tackle asylum and immigration policy afresh. Migration researchers recommend that, to overcome the current deadlock, the Commission should untie the reform package for the Common European Asylum System and the EU...

The new European Commission will inherit an impasse in efforts to reform the European asylum system as well as concerns about practices in the managemen