Asylum applications in the European Union: patterns and trends and the effects of policy measures

Bocker, A.; Havinga, T.

Journal of Refugee Studies 11(3): 245-266

1998


ISSN/ISBN: 0951-6328
PMID: 12295700
DOI: 10.1093/jrs/11.3.245
Document Number: 531914
"Statistics on asylum applications have been used in a highly selective way in the debates on refugees and asylum policies in Western Europe, to justify restrictive measures. This paper provides a more systematic analysis of these statistics. It focuses on the pattern of origins and destinations for asylum seekers in the European Union in the period 1985-1994.... When the patterns of origin and destinations are compared for separate years, it becomes clear that the destinations of asylum movements have been constantly changing. Though some of the more remarkable shifts were clearly related to policy measures in the relevant countries, many measures produced only limited effects or failed to have any effect at all."

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