Citation:
Fernández-Huertas Moraga, J., & Rapoport, H. (2015). Tradable Refugee-admission Quotas (TRAQs), the Syrian Crisis and the new European Agenda on Migration. IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 4 (1), pp. 1-13
xmlui.dri2xhtml.METS-1.0.item-contributor-funder:
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)
Sponsor:
Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga received financial support from the ECO2012-39412 project funded by the Spanish Ministry for Economics and Competitiveness.
Project:
Gobierno de España. ECO2012-39412
Keywords:
Immigration policy
,
EU policy,
,
Tradable quotas
,
Refugee resettlement
,
Asylum seekers
,
International public goods
The Syrian Civil War gave rise to the largest refugee flight reaching Europe since the Yugoslavian wars in the 1990s. The crisis evidenced the deficiencies of the European Union Asylum Policy, which struggled both to offer solutions to Syrian
refugees and to The Syrian Civil War gave rise to the largest refugee flight reaching Europe since the Yugoslavian wars in the 1990s. The crisis evidenced the deficiencies of the European Union Asylum Policy, which struggled both to offer solutions to Syrian
refugees and to efficiently allocate costs across Member States. We draw on
previous theoretical work to simulate how a system of tradable refugee-admission
quotas coupled with a matching mechanism assigning refugees to their preferred
destinations and destinations to their preferred types of refugees would give more
flexibility to Member States while respecting refugee rights and preferences.[+][-]