Anti-migrant policies increase irregular migration
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By Oiza Q. Obasuyi
Do migration policies work? This is the question Sinem Yilmaz and Giacomo Solano – researchers from the Migration Policy Group – addressed by analysing the approaches EU states adopt to manage migration flows, ranging from restrictions to selectivity. Article written by Oiza Q. Obasuyi.
The adoption of soft or harsh migration policies has a real impact on the lives of migrants. In fact, depending on the measures taken, they are either excluded and abandoned as opposed to included and integrated into the social tissue of member states. What is certain – as researchers Sinem Yilmaz and Giacomo Solano emphasise in their research Do migration policies work? – is that the securitarian policies adopted by EU countries, such as systematic border rejections, have failed to produce the deterrent effect that was expected, and still they violate migrants’ fundamental rights.
In fact, as Yilmaz and Solano explain, over the past decades, various experts on migration have argue...
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