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Pierre Van Wolleghem

@piervanwoll.bsky.social
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PhD in Politics - Research associate professor at NORCE - interested in migration and asylum policy, public opinion, democracy and research methods. Music enthusiast and sports lover :)

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Pierre Van Wolleghem @piervanwoll.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#Asylum is not simply a humanitarian matter. Nor does it depend on the mere application of international law. It is also a question of how states work A short summary of my research over the past few years at @sampol.bsky.social and NORCE Research, available on @rli-sas.bsky.social
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Pierre Van Wolleghem @piervanwoll.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
At #ECPR2026, I also shared some of my (and colleagues) latest research on how #Cities are located in #Europe knolwege ecosystem relating to #ClimateChange, part of the EU project @impetus4change.bsky.social Interested? Check out our working paper in SocArXiv: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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Pierre Van Wolleghem @piervanwoll.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
At #ECPR2026, I got to share some of my (and colleagues) latest research on how #Cities exchange knowledge on #ClimateChange via transnational municipal networks, part of the EU project @impetus4change.bsky.social More info when the paper is published!
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Pierre Van Wolleghem @piervanwoll.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Great feedback on my paper in @prqjournal.bsky.social at the #ECPR2026 conference, @ecpr-migration.bsky.social section. The State and the Refugee: doi.org/10.1177/1065...
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Pierre Van Wolleghem @piervanwoll.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Summary of a week at #ECPR2026: 🤓3 papers presented 🤓2 on #ClimateChange 🤓1 on #AsylumPolicy 🤓1 panel chaired for @ecpr-migration.bsky.social with outstanding presentations More info to come!
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Pierre Van Wolleghem @piervanwoll.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
How do governments quietly shape asylum outcomes? Not by rejecting claims outright, but by choosing which kind of protection to grant New evidence published in Political Research Quarterly: doi.org/10.1177/1065... #AsylumPolicy #EUPolitics @NORCE @sampol.bsky.social @hakangs.bsky.social
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The State and the Refugee. Governing Asylum at the Intersection Between Politics and Administration - Pierre G. Van Wolleghem, 2026
This article examines how asylum decisions in European Union member states are shaped by the tension between administrative assessment and government preference...
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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Yesterday’s #UNAM - #UiB symposium on #migration in a shifting global order was a sucess! With the participation of @piervanwoll.bsky.social, @hakangs.bsky.social, Ann Cathrin Corrales-Øverlid, Kari Hagatun, Simone Grassini, as well as @noruegaenmexico.bsky.social and @acnurmexico.bsky.social
Screenshots from video-report by UniRadio Baja, Tijuana.
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LSE European Politics @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
When making asylum decisions, is it worse to deny protection to someone who needs it or to grant it to someone who does not? ✍ Cornelius Cappelen, Hakan G. Sicakkan & Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem @sampol.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
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What do citizens think about mistakes in asylum decisions?
New research from 26 countries explores whether citizens find it worse to wrongly grant or wrongly deny asylum protection to those in need.
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Pierre Van Wolleghem @piervanwoll.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
How do #citizens weigh #fairness in #asylum decisions? Some elements of answer in our latest article, together with Cornelius Cappelen and @hakangs.bsky.social, in International Migration Review.
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CIPS / CÉPI @cepi-cips.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
📢New blog by @piervanwoll.bsky.social - Granting International Protection. What Do Canadians Think About Asylum Policy? "The findings are both encouraging and revealing. A majority of Canadians support both resettlement and spontaneous asylum applications." 🔗 www.cips-cepi.ca/2025/10/10/g...
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Pierre Van Wolleghem @piervanwoll.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Our article won the 2024 SAGE Award for best article published in European Union Politics - EUP, with a survey experiment on #attitudes towards #asylum responsibility-sharing. Authors: Cornelius Cappelen, @hakangs.bsky.social , and myself journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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SAGE Award for the best article published in European Union Politics, Volume 24, 2024
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Pierre Van Wolleghem @piervanwoll.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
With #Trump in office, it is a critical time for #Canada 's #asylum policy. How do #Canadians feel about asylum policy? My latest article in @JRefugeeStudies on public attitudes to resettlement vs. spontaneous applications 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1093/jrs/...
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Resettlement vs. spontaneous applications. Canadians’ attitudes to asylum policy in a comparative perspective
Abstract. Increasing irregular crossings into Canada have put the asylum issue at the forefront of the political debate. This article explores Canadian cit
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Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
🌟 New article 👥 Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem @piervanwoll.bsky.social & Hakan G. Sicakkan @hakangs.bsky.social 👉 Recognizing international protection how institutional arrangements affect asylum decisions 📗 Open access in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1369...
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