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New Article: At Europe’s frontline: factors determining migrants decision making for onwards migration from Greece and Turkey

30 April, 2019 By Katie Kuschminder

From our study in 2015 on Irregular Migrants Decision Making Factors in Greece in Turkey, this article with Jennifer Waidler has recently been published in Migration and Development. Abstract Limited research has been conducted on migrants’ decision making factors in transit and this is an important area of investigation that goes beyond the origin-destination country dichotomy most commonly represented in migrant decision making. This paper examines the decision making factors for onwards … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Article Tagged With: Decision Making, Greece, irregular, transit, Turkey

Contribution to Sage Research Methods Cases

22 January, 2019 By Katie Kuschminder

Sage Research Methods Cases are a great resource for learning about different research design methodologies. I have just made a contribution to this series from the Understanding Irregular Migrants Decision Making Factors in Transit Study. The publication can be accessed here.   Abstract: The goal of this project was to understand how migrants and other refugees make decisions regarding onward migration, stay, or return in Greece and Turkey. We used a mixed-methods approach of a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Article Tagged With: Greece, irregular, methods, transit, Turkey

Deciding Which Road to Take: Insights into How Migrants and Refugees in Greece Plan Onward Movement- MPI Issue Brief

30 August, 2018 By Katie Kuschminder

In 2015, faced with a mounting humanitarian crisis on its borders, the European Union introduced a plan to relocate some asylum seekers from overburdened Greece and Italy to other EU countries. Yet Member States’ reluctance to make concrete relocation pledges and asylum seekers’ resistance to being moved to destinations they viewed as less desirable meant that a year on, far fewer had been relocated than was originally envisioned. As EU policymakers debate new proposals to deal with future … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Article Tagged With: destinations, Greece, policy, Refugees

The role of migration‐specific and migration‐relevant policies in migrant decision‐making in transit

10 May, 2017 By Katie Kuschminder

  In follow-up to the Occasional Paper 'Understanding Irregular Migrants Decision Making Factors in Transit' Khalid Koser and I have just published this working paper that further examines the role of policies in migrants decision making.   Abstract   This paper examines the role of migration-specific and migration-relevant policies in migrant decision-making factors for onwards migration or stay in Greece and Turkey. In this paper we distinguish migration-specific … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Publications Tagged With: Greece, Irregular Migration, policy, transit, Turkey

EuroNews Opinions Piece on Migrants in Greece and Turkey

25 January, 2017 By Katie Kuschminder

In order to stem the flow of migrants crossing into Europe, the EU signed a deal with Turkey that aims to return migrants without an asylum claim to Turkey. Recently, EU leaders met in Malta and agreed to a new deal with Libya aimed at curtailing the flow of migrants from Libya to Italy. The EU-Turkey deal has been viewed as successful from a policy standpoint in that it has effectively reduced the number of boats crossing from Turkey to Greece. Yet, it is important for us to reflect on why … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: EU Turkey deal, Greece, irregular, Turkey

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Katie Kuschminder (PhD) is a Senior Researcher at the University of Amsterdam... Read More…

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