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Syrian refugees in the EU

Syrische Flüchtlinge in der EU : welche Faktoren bestimmen die Wahl des Ziellandes?
Authors: Singhuber, Christopher;

Syrian refugees in the EU

Abstract

Die Europäische Flüchtlingskrise war eines der bedeutendsten Ereignisse in der Geschichte der EU, während dem mehr als eine Million Asylanträge allein im Jahr 2015 gestellt wurden, die meisten davon von Syrischen Staatsbürgern. Große Unterschiede in Flüchtlingszahlen haben zu Spannungen zwischen Mitgliedsstaaten geführt, die Ihren Höhepunkt in der Errichtung von Grenzzäunen und der vorübergehenden, teilweisen Wiedereinführung von Schengen Grenzkontrollen gefunden haben. Diese Masterarbeit versucht diese Unterschiede zu erklären, indem sie jene pull factors ausfindig macht, die für die Wahl des Ziellandes von Syrischen Staatsbürgern, die einen Asylantrag in einem EU-Land im Zeitraum von 2011 bis Mitte 2016 gestellt haben, ausschlaggebend waren. Um zu schätzen wie demografische und ökonomische Faktoren, sowie Gesetze und andere politische Maßnahmen den Anteil der Asylanträge eines Mitgliedsstaates beeinflussen, wird ein generalisiertes lineares Modell verwendet, damit die statistischen Eigenschaften der abhängigen Variablen korrekt berücksichtigt werden. Die Zahl der bereits im Zielland lebenden Syrer und liberale Zuwanderungsregelungen erhöhen die Anzahl der Asylanträge, während die geografische Distanz zu Syrien abschreckend wirkt. Weiters wird gezeigt, dass Anerkennungsraten für Asyl erfolgreich als kurzfristige Politikmaßnahme eingesetzt wurden. Ökonomische Faktoren scheinen, wenn überhaupt, nur eine geringfügige Rolle bei der Ziellandwahl gespielt zu haben, was die Ergebnisse der bisherigen Literatur zum Thema bestätigt.

The European Refugee Crisis was one of the most significant events in EU history with more than one million applications for asylum in the EU in 2015 alone, most of them filed by Syrian citizens. Large differences in the numbers of asylum applications led to tensions between EU countries, culminating in the construction of fences along some national borders and the temporary and partial reintroduction of Schengen border controls. This thesis seeks to explain these differences by finding the pull factors that determined the choice of destination for Syrian citizens who filed an application for asylum in an EU country in the time from the beginning of 2011 to mid 2016. It is estimated how demographic, economic and policy indicators affect a member states' proportion of applications. For that, a generalized linear model is employed to account for the properties of the zero inflated fractional response variable. It is found that the stock of Syrian-born people and more open migration policies increased the number of asylum applications, while geographic distance to Syria was a strong deterrent. Further, it is shown that recognition rates for asylum were effectively used as a short-term policy measure by EU member states. Economic indicators played, if anything, a minor role in destination choice, which is in line with the results of the previous push and pull factor literature on refugees.

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