Why Many Policies to Lower Migration Actually Increase It

This video covers why policies to lower migration often do not have the intended effect.

0:00 Introduction
0:58 What are the policies about?
2:24 "Tackling" the root causes
4:37 The EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa
5:26 Why do these policies not decrease migration aspirations?
6:14 Not only ineffective, but also expensive
6:37 What to focus on instead
10:16 Thanks for watching!

Links

Jessica Hagen-Zanker (April 19, 2024), Why many policies to lower migration actually increase it.
https://theconversation.com/why-many-...

MIGNEX Project
https://www.mignex.org/

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References

Jørgen Carling, Nicolás Caso, Jessica Hagen-Zanker, Marcela G. Rubio (October 31, 2023), The multi-level determination of migration processes.
https://www.mignex.org/d061

European Union, Emergency Trust Fund for Africa.
https://trust-fund-for-africa.europa....

European Parliament (October 25, 2023), Hearing "Tackling the root causes of migration". https://www.europarl.europa.eu/commit...

Marta Forest & Clare Cummings (December 17, 2015), Why people move: understanding the drivers and trends of migration to Europe.
https://odi.org/en/publications/why-p...

Jessica Hagen-Zanker (April 19, 2024), Why many policies to lower migration actually increase it.
https://theconversation.com/why-many-...

Jessica Hagen-Zanker & Jørgen Carling (December 7, 2023), What are 'root causes' of migration?
https://www.mignex.org/d066a

David Robliano (February 15, 2018), How much does it cost to create a job? https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/jobs/h...


Henda Chennaoui & Malek Abderrahman (January 19, 2015), Redeyef: A Town of Hopes Betrayed
https://nawaat.org/2015/01/19/redeyef...

Steve Radelet (May 8, 2017), Once more into the breach: Does foreign aid work?
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/on...

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