Work-Based Pathways to Refugee Protection under EU Law: Pie in the Sky?

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Zvezda Vankova’s article, published in the European Journal of Migration and Law, examines the contested policy idea of using labour migration as a complementary pathway for refugee protection in the EU. Combining EU-law analysis with empirical interview data, it assesses whether the EU labour-migration acquis can support this approach and concludes that existing channels would at most benefit a select group of highly skilled refugees.