This working paper by Norbert Cyrus, Laura Cassain, Claudia Finotelli, Arjen Leerkes, Shiva Mohan, Daniela Ghio, Marina Nikolova, Lalaine Siruno explores factors that influence the presence of irregular migration flow data in public debates and policy decision-making. Observations from five strategic case studies exploring the data on selected patterns of irregular migration flows in different national contexts are compared: visa applications and overstaying data in Spain, irregular border crossing data in Greece, data documenting irregular migration status change in registration data in the Netherlands, data on the administration of asylum procedures in Germany and data on temporarily admitted migrants who fall out of status due to administrative dysfunction in Canada. The explorative analysis suggests that – in addition to availability, accessibility, and quality – data expediency is a strong factor influencing the presence and use of irregular migration flow data in public debates and policy decision-making.
DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18347614
Publisher: University for Continuing Education Krems (Danube University Krems)
