A large literature links refugee presence to higher local conflict risk. This study argues that positive local effects of hosting refugees—especially through development—have been overlooked and may reduce, not increase, conflict.
This article asks how Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) represent Syrian and Ukrainian refugees and whether implicit hierarchies of race and gender shape those representations. Drawing on Critical Securitisation Theory, the authors compare discursive patterns to test a hypothesis that stigmatisation based on race and gender affects EU representations of refugees. The manuscript reports a computational comparison of EP speech acts to see when refugees are cast as urgent threats and when speech enables de‑threatening or protective framings.
A constrained priority mechanism is introduced that blends outcome-based matching (from machine learning predictions) with traditional preference-based allocation. The design lets a planner enforce a minimum average outcome while still assigning agents according to their ranked preferences.
New findings reveal that German citizens with a mixed conception of national identity held more variable opinions about immigration than those holding singular civic or ethnic views. This complexity challenges previous assumptions about the stability provided by strong national identities.
Does exposure to the refugee crisis increase support for extreme-right parties? This study leverages a sudden refugee surge on Aegean islands to provide causal evidence that brief, visible inflows changed electoral outcomes before the September 2015 Greek election.