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Mathias Czaika

Mathias CzaikaMathias Czaika is a research officer at the International Migration Institute and a James Martin Fellow.

Contact: +44 (0) 1865 271533, mathias.czaika@qeh.ox.ac.uk

Research focus

Mathias is interested in the political economy of migration (how do migration policies come about?) and the role of migration policies in shaping international migration flows (how do the various types of migration policy instruments influence migration flows?). Currently, his research focus is on the qualitative assessment of the effects and the effectiveness of migration policies as well as the quantification of these policy effects.

Current IMI projects

Mathias works on the DEMIG project (‘Determinants of International Migration’).

Background

Mathias has a PhD in Political Economy (University of Freiburg, Germany) and a Diploma in Economics (University of Konstanz, Germany). In his PhD thesis, published in 2009 with Palgrave Macmillan, he explores the determinants of forced migration and its political implications from an economic perspective. He describes the distribution of burdens from forced migration across countries, and analyzes the strategic interaction of national refugee policies to control refugee flows.

Prior to joining IMI in April 2010, he held a lecturer position at the University of Freiburg (Centre for Renewable Energy) and a position as economic advisor with GTZ (the German Development Cooperation Agency).

Publications

Book

  • Czaika, M. and C. Vargas-Silva (2012) Migration and Economic Growth (ed.), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
  • Czaika, M. (2009) The Political Economy of Refugee Migration and Foreign Aid, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Articles (peer-reviewed)

  • Czaika, M. (forthcoming) 'Internal versus international migration and the role of multiple deprivation: Some evidence from India', Asian Population Studies.
  • Czaika, M. and A. Mayer (2011) 'Refugee movements and aid responsiveness of bilateral donors', Journal of Development Studies 47(3): 455-74.
  • Czaika, M. (2009) 'The Political Economy of Refugee Migration', Journal of Economics and Statistics 229(6): 803-21.
  • Czaika, M. and K. Kis-Katos (2009) 'Civil Conflict and displacement - Village-level determinants of forced migration in Aceh', Journal of Peace Research 46(3): 399-418.
  • Czaika, M. (2009) 'Asylum cooperation among asymmetric countries: The case of the European Union', European Union Politics 10 (1): 89-113.
  • Czaika, M. (2008) 'Cheap talk in the UN arenas? Some evidence on the impact of UN speeches on aid allocation decisions', Applied Economics Letters 15(3): 187-91
  • Czaika, M. (2005) 'Aid allocation and asylum migration in the 1990s', Applied Economics Quarterly 50(3): 289-30.
  • Czaika, M. (2005) 'A Refugee Burden Index: methodology and its application', Migration Letters 2(2): 101-25.

Working papers

  • Czaika, M. (2011) 'Internal and international migration as a response to double deprivation: some evidence from India', IMI Working Paper 37.
  • Czaika, M. (2011) 'Migration and social fractionalization: double relative deprivation as a behavioural link', IMI Working Paper 36.
  • Czaika, M. and H. de Haas (2011) 'The role of internal and international relative deprivation in global migration', IMI Working Paper 35.