Climate Change and Environmentally Induced Migration Across Regions: Cooperative and Non-cooperative Solutions

We propose a two region economic model that may contribute towards the understanding of the relationship between economic and environmental factors as drivers of international migration. The model takes into account optimal emissions and consumption decisions for the two regions, as well as their effects on global temperature and production in each region. Migration is considered as a dynamic phenomenon, driven by a combination of economic and environmental (e.g., climate change) factors, while at the same time the contribution of migrant labour in each region\u2019s production is taken into account. Dynamic optimality conditions are derived for the non-cooperative and the cooperative case, and the optimal solution paths and policies are calculated numerically for indicative cases choosing realistic parameter values. Our results describe the emergence of international migration as a result of a combination of economic and environmental factors, and models the evolution of global temperature as a result of the various targets imposed by international agreements

Towards a Common European Space for Asylum

In this paper, we provide a critical overview of the current migration policies of the EU as framed by the recent amendments of the EU migration policies since 2015. We highlight that the construction of the migration policy is a constitutive element of the spatial process of reorganization of territorial policies through the combination and diffusion of state, regional and global. We show that the perception of permanent and static migration pressure, and countries’ specialization in migration are the basis for diffusion of asylum and migration policies to a number of different countries imposing similar migration systems and establishing a global governance of migration regime. The paper highlights a geographic and political change in migration and border management, through the patterns of EU Member States cooperation, and in particular their reluctance to establish a common asylum system based on solidarity and the focus on substituting the lack of a common asylum system by bilateral externalization agreements the main objective of which is the management of migration and border control rather than guaranteeing asylum and refugee policies