How do governments quietly shape asylum outcomes? Not by rejecting claims outright, but by choosing which kind of protection to grant New evidence published in Political Research Quarterly: doi.org/10.1177/1065... #AsylumPolicy #EUPolitics @NORCE @sampol.bsky.social @hakangs.bsky.social

The State and the Refugee. Governing Asylum at the Intersection Between Politics and Administration - Pierre G. Van Wolleghem, 2026

This article examines how asylum decisions in European Union member states are shaped by the tension between administrative assessment and government preference...

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Yesterday’s #UNAM - #UiB symposium on #migration in a shifting global order was a sucess! With the participation of @piervanwoll.bsky.social, @hakangs.bsky.social, Ann Cathrin Corrales-Øverlid, Kari Hagatun, Simone Grassini, as well as @noruegaenmexico.bsky.social and @acnurmexico.bsky.social

When making asylum decisions, is it worse to deny protection to someone who needs it or to grant it to someone who does not? ✍ Cornelius Cappelen, Hakan G. Sicakkan & Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem @sampol.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

What do citizens think about mistakes in asylum decisions?

New research from 26 countries explores whether citizens find it worse to wrongly grant or wrongly deny asylum protection to those in need.

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How do #citizens weigh #fairness in #asylum decisions? Some elements of answer in our latest article, together with Cornelius Cappelen and @hakangs.bsky.social, in International Migration Review.

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🌟 New article 👥 Cornelius Wright Cappelen, Hakan G. Sicakkan & Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem 👉 Decision-Making Mistakes in Asylum Policy: A Comparative Study of Public Opinion 📗 Open Access in: International Migration Review 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0197...

📢New blog by @piervanwoll.bsky.social - Granting International Protection. What Do Canadians Think About Asylum Policy? "The findings are both encouraging and revealing. A majority of Canadians support both resettlement and spontaneous asylum applications." 🔗 www.cips-cepi.ca/2025/10/10/g...

Our article won the 2024 SAGE Award for best article published in European Union Politics - EUP, with a survey experiment on #attitudes towards #asylum responsibility-sharing. Authors: Cornelius Cappelen, @hakangs.bsky.social , and myself journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

SAGE Award for the best article published in European Union Politics, Volume 24, 2024

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With #Trump in office, it is a critical time for #Canada 's #asylum policy. How do #Canadians feel about asylum policy? My latest article in @JRefugeeStudies on public attitudes to resettlement vs. spontaneous applications 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1093/jrs/...

Resettlement vs. spontaneous applications. Canadians’ attitudes to asylum policy in a comparative perspective

Abstract. Increasing irregular crossings into Canada have put the asylum issue at the forefront of the political debate. This article explores Canadian cit

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🌟 New article 👥 Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem @piervanwoll.bsky.social & Hakan G. Sicakkan @hakangs.bsky.social 👉 Recognizing international protection how institutional arrangements affect asylum decisions 📗 Open access in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1369...