How Germany reduced the number of asylum seekers from the Balkans
The legal migration opportunities born amongst the 2015 spike in asylum claims.
Perspectives | Migration2018.08.17
These circumstances pushed German policymakers to differentiate between refugees fleeing war and migrants fleeing from severe socio-economic situations
With the opening of the labor market at the end of 2015, many of the asylum seekers turned into part of Germany’s workforce.
Mehdi Sejdiu
Mehdi Sejdiu comes from a small village in Kosovo and is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Heidelberg.
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