Publications

Our publications include academic publications (peer-reviewed books, journal articles, and book chapters), working papers (presenting work in-progress), a wide range of research and policy reports (primarily aimed at a non-academic audience), and blogs. For an overview of ongoing MPC research projects, click here.


Alternatives to immigration detention in Türkiye : what’s the European Union got to do with it?

  • Type: Working Paper
  • Year of Publication: 2024
  • Author(s): INELI CIGER, Meltem
  • Series/Report no.: EUI, RSC, Working Paper, 2024/08, Migration Policy Centre
  • Abstract: Türkiye, hosting the world’s largest refugee population, has become an important partner for the European Union in managing large-scale arrivals of refugees and migrants. Over the years, the EUTurkey Statement [...]
  • Keywords: Alternatives to immigration detention, Türkiye, EU-Türkiye cooperation in the field of migration, Electronic monitoring
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Targeted by terrorists : child recruitment, exploitation and reintegration in Indonesia, Iraq and Nigeria

  • Type: Technical Report
  • Year of Publication: 2024
  • Author(s): ACHILLI, Luigi, MELOTTI, Giulia
  • Series/Report no.: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Research Study, 2024, STRIVE Juvenile, [Migration Policy Centre]
  • Abstract: This study was carried out in Indonesia, Iraq and Nigeria with the aim of increasing knowledge regarding children associated with groups designated “terrorist” (henceforth terrorist groups). Children’s association with such [...]
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In search of protection : irregular mobility among Palestinian youth in Gaza

  • Type: Contribution to book
  • Year of Publication: 2023
  • Author(s): PROCTER, Caitlin
  • Citation: Luigi ACHILLI and Davide KYLE (eds), Global human smuggling : buying freedom in a retreating world, Baltimore : John Hopkins University Press, 2023, 3rd edition, pp. 448-466
  • Series/Report no.: [Migration Policy Centre]
  • Abstract: Mousa, a twenty-one-year-old young man from the north of Gaza, died while attempting to swim across a fast-running river in Bosnia in the late summer of 2019. The first his [...]
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Conceptualising and challenging child neglect in humanitarian action : protecting displaced children in Jordan and Palestine

  • Type: Article
  • Year of Publication: 2024
  • Author(s): PROCTER, Caitlin, PONTALTI, Kirsten, HART, Jason, ALRUZZI, Mohammed
  • Citation: Child abuse and neglect, 2024, Vol. 147, Art. 106539, OnlineOnly
  • Series/Report no.: [Migration Policy Centre]
  • Abstract: Background: Humanitarian organisations commonly identify neglect as a specific form of harm from which children should be protected. However, lack of debate about the aetiology of child neglect has left [...]
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Coerced migration : mobility under siege in Gaza

  • Type: Article
  • Year of Publication: 2024
  • Author(s): PROCTER, Caitlin
  • Citation: Journal of ethnic and migration studies, 2024, OnlineOnly
  • Series/Report no.: [Migration Policy Centre]
  • Abstract: This article, based on field research conducted between 2018 and 2019 centres the role of Israeli state coercion in the migration of young Palestinians from Gaza. In recent years, migration [...]
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Migration communication campaigns : the state of the practice and an open database

  • Type: Technical Report
  • Year of Publication: 2024
  • Author(s): DENNISON, James, PICCOLI, Lorenzo, DA SILVA CARMO DUARTE, Mariana
  • Series/Report no.: Report, 2024, [Migration Policy Centre]
  • Abstract: -- Every year governments, international organisations, and civil society associations produce communications campaigns designed to affect numerous facets of migration. -- Despite their increasing ubiquity, resources, and—possibly—impact, as well as [...]
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Migration categories and the politics of labeling

  • Type: Contribution to book
  • Year of Publication: 2024
  • Author(s): HADJ-ABDOU, Leila, ZARDO, Federica
  • Citation: Giuseppe SCIORTINO, Martina CVAJNER and Peter J. KIVISTO (eds), Research handbook on the sociology of migration, Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024, Research handbooks in sociology series, pp. 34-45
  • Series/Report no.: [Migration Policy Centre]
  • Abstract: The chapter examines the complex and dynamic nature of migration categories and their role in shaping international migration governance. Categories are not easily changed and are often codified in laws [...]
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Migration

  • Type: Contribution to book
  • Year of Publication: 2024
  • Author(s): GEDDES, Andrew, HADJ-ABDOU, Leila
  • Citation: Manuela MOSCHELLA, Lucia QUAGLIA and Aneta SPENDZHAROVA (eds), European political economy : theoretical approaches and policy issues, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024, The new European Union series, pp. 243-260
  • Series/Report no.: [Migration Policy Centre]
  • Abstract: This chapter shows why, how, and with what effects international migration in its many forms is closely linked to the political economy of contemporary Europe. To begin with, the chapter [...]
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Beyond evidence-based policymaking? : exploring knowledge formation and source effects in US migration policymaking

  • Type: Article
  • Year of Publication: 2024
  • Author(s): PETTRACHIN, Andrea, HADJ-ABDOU, Leila
  • Citation: Policy sciences, 2024, OnlineFirst
  • Series/Report no.: [Migration Policy Centre]
  • Abstract: Several scholars have observed persistent gaps between policy responses to complex, ambiguous and politicized problems (such as migration, climate change and the recent Covid-19 pandemic) and evidence or ‘facts’. While [...]
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Who governs migration and mobilities globally?

  • Type: Contribution to book
  • Year of Publication: 2024
  • Author(s): GEDDES, Andrew
  • Citation: Ettore RECCHI and Mirna SAFI (eds), Handbook of human mobility and migration, Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2024, Elgar Handbooks in Migration, pp. 270-283
  • Series/Report no.: [Migration Policy Centre]
  • Abstract: This chapter analyses forms and types of governance of migration and mobilities at global level, by which is meant three things. The first is what many people would have in [...]
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