'Matching' refugees

Abstract

In 2016, Forced Migration Review published an article in Forced Migration Review called 'Choices, preferences and priorities in a matching system for refugees' in which we argued that refugees to be resettled should be allocated to countries through a centralized matching system, using preferences of refugees and priorities of countries, similar to systems used around the world to allocate school places. The idea is now being discussed by the European Asylum Support Office as a possible approach in the search for solutions to the European refugee crisis. They welcome enquiries and hope to be able to design or redesign many effective matching systems for resettlement around the world.