A key goal of the Research Programme is to develop an empirical model detailing the relative importance of the various key push and pull factors determining asylum-related migration for certain typical flows.

The Programme will be broken down into four major areas:

1. Gaining an overview of existing relevant work (literature review)

2. Empirical work (including a large-scale social survey of asylum-seekers)

3. Constructing an empirical model of asylum-related migration

4. Developing tools for monitoring of relevant information sources