More than a million migrants and refugees crossed into Europe in 2015, sparking a crisis as countries struggled to cope with the influx.
The so-called refugee crisis has created deep divisions and policy incoherence in the EU among member states. The crisis foregrounded the vulnerability of European borders, the tenuous jurisdiction of the Schengen system and broad problems with multi-level governance of migration and integration. One of the most visible impacts of the refugee crisis has been the polarization of politics in EU Member States and intra-Member State policy (in)coherence in responding to the crisis.
The recently granted Horizon 2020 project RESPOND will study the multilevel governance of migration in 11 countries.