This book explores the determinants of forced migration and its political implications from an economic perspective. It describes the distribution of burdens from forced migration across countries, and analyzes the strategic interaction of national refugee policies to control refugee flows.

About the Author
MATHIAS CZAIKA is an Economist at the Univeristy of Freiburg, Germany. He received his graduate degree in Economics from University of Konstanz in 2001. He was research assistant at the University of Freiburg, where he received a Ph.D. in Economics in 2008. As part of his research on refugee migration, he stayed for some time at the Refugee Studies Center of University of Oxford and the UNHCR headquarter in Geneva.

Reviews

'Lack of economic analysis has long reduced the intellectual and practical value of research on refugees. This book makes a major contribution to filling that gap. Its rigorous but accessibly presented applications of economic theory and econometrics to forced migration and related policies shed new light on key issues, and will stimulate others to do more research of this type and quality.' - Professor Adrian Wood, Department of Economics, Oxford University, UK

Book Information
ISBN 9780230576889
Author M. Czaika
Format Hardback
Page Count 205
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan