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

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• dc.contributor.author Vrânceanu, Alina
• dc.contributor.author Heidland, Tobias
• dc.contributor.author Dinas, Elias
• dc.contributor.author Ruhs, Martin
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-05-07T06:54:33Z
• dc.date.available 2024-05-07T06:54:33Z
• dc.date.issued 2023
• dc.description.abstract What preferences do people have for cross-country cooperation on irregular migration and refugee protection? 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, however, about people's views concerning a particular European Union (EU) response to the so-called ‘refugee crisis’, namely the cooperation 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 indeed play a role in explaining preferences in the three countries. Moreover, while respondents are favourable 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.
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• dc.identifier.citation Vrânceanu A, Dinas E, Heidland T, Ruhs M. The European refugee crisis and public support for the externalisation of migration management. European J Political Res. 2023 Nov;62(4):1146-67. DOI:10.1111/1475-6765.12565
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12565
• dc.identifier.issn 0304-4130
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/60049
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Wiley
• dc.relation.ispartof European Journal of Political Research. 2023 Nov;62(4):1146-67
• dc.rights © 2022 The Authors. European Journal of Political Research published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of European Consortium for Political Research. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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• dc.subject.keyword Public opinion
• dc.subject.keyword Cross-country cooperation
• dc.subject.keyword Migration
• dc.subject.keyword EU-Turkey agreement
• dc.subject.keyword Conjoint analysis
• dc.title The European refugee crisis and public support for the externalisation of migration management
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