New Research on EU Migration Featured in The Conversation

Natalia Letki, Dawid Walentek, Peter Thisted Dinesen, and Ulf Liebe have published an essay in the Conversation highlighting their recent research on EU Migration, “We polled EU citizens on what they want asylum policy to look like – their answers may surprise you.“

Their research finds that citizens in the EU “are not as polarized” on the migration issue as their governments. Instead, “[a]cross member states, people have remarkably similar preferences, including being strongly in favor of asylum seekers being allowed to work.”

They also find that in the countries with the highest rates of new asylum applicants–such as Germany and Spain–citizens express an interest in being “able to relocate new applicants to less burdened countries.”

Those interested in learning more can read the full article, published in West European Politics.

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