The provision of protection to asylum-seekers in destination countries

This paper's findings suggest that conditions in the origin countries known to produce refugee outflows influence the way in which destination countries allocate protection to asylum-seekers. However, the amount of protection provided by destination countries is found to be impervious to refugee-generating conditions in origin countries. The paper suggests that the supply of protection is pegged at a level deemed acceptable to the destination country, with fluctuations occurring as a result of a change in domestic factors such as increasing asylum applications and growing numbers of foreigners.