The European refugee crisis and public support for the externalisation of migration management

VRÂNCEANU, Alina; DINAS, Elias; HEIDLAND, Tobias; RUHS, Martin

doi:10.1111/1475-6765.12565

The European refugee crisis and public support for the externalisation of migration management

dc.contributor.author	VRÂNCEANU, Alina
dc.contributor.author	DINAS, Elias
dc.contributor.author	HEIDLAND, Tobias
dc.contributor.author	RUHS, Martin
dc.date.accessioned	2022-11-10T14:48:46Z
dc.date.embargo	2024-11-06
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.description	Published online: 06 November 2022	en
dc.description.abstract	What preferences do people have for cross-country cooperation on irregular migration and refugee protection? While existing research improves our understanding of how voters react to large-scale inflows of asylum seekers, like those experienced by European countries in 2015–2016, and the type of asylum seekers and policies preferred by European citizens, we know less about people's views concerning a particular EU response to the so-called ‘refugee crisis’, namely the cooperation it agreed with Turkey in March 2016 to stem inflows of asylum seekers and other migrants. To study such views, we build on several strands of the international relations literature exploring key determinants of public preferences for international cooperation on cross-national issues, namely (a) sociotropic concerns, (b) humanitarian considerations, and (c) perceptions of fairness and reciprocity. Our research design leverages conjoint experiments conducted simultaneously in Germany, Greece, and Turkey. We find that the three factors play indeed a role in explaining preferences in the three countries. Moreover, while respondents are favorable to several core features of the current EU-Turkey migration deal (regarding the return of irregular migrants, financial aid to refugees, and border controls), we also find evidence of public support for increased cooperation on resettlement and EU support to Greece to deal with migration, which goes beyond the status quo. In certain aspects of cooperation, public preferences seem to respond to interactions between policy dimensions that capture reciprocity. These findings have important implications for research on public preferences for asylum and migration policies and public support for international cooperation more generally.	en
dc.embargo.terms	2024-11-06
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dc.identifier.citation	European journal of political research, 2023, Vol. 62, No. 4, pp. 1146-1167	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1111/1475-6765.12565
dc.identifier.endpage	1167
dc.identifier.issn	0304-4130
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dc.identifier.issue	4
dc.identifier.startpage	1146
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1814/75012
dc.identifier.volume	62
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dc.publisher	Wiley	en
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dc.relation.ispartofseries	[Migration Policy Centre]	en
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dc.title	The European refugee crisis and public support for the externalisation of migration management	en
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