Articles by Karina Adamova

October 28, 2026

Europe’s divided approach to refugees and skilled migrants

Karina Adamova
Karina Adamova argues that migration policies which attempt to address labour shortages and decrease refugee migration treat skilled migrants and refugees as separate categories. What they should do, she says, is treat them as the same people at different points in time. Recent events in Germany show that anti-migrant attitudes can affect migrants’ decisions about where to live – even as the country faces significant labour shortages
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Karina Adamova
Independent Researcher

Karina's research interests include migration governance, labour migration, and refugee and asylum policy, with a particular focus on Europe.

She is also interested in the political dynamics surrounding migration and the interaction between migration policy and labour markets.

Karina holds a Master's degree from the European University Institute and a Bachelor's degree from Georgetown University in Qatar.

Her publications include a forthcoming chapter on populism and Euroscepticism in Serbia in an edited volume with Palgrave Macmillan.

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