Migration has become a top policy priority of the European Union (EU) in the wake of the 2015 migrant crisis. Given the significant ramifications of non-European immigration for its member states, the EU has implemented a variety of policies to minimize popular backlashes within the borders of its wealthiest member states, which are also popular final destinations for migrants. In this article, we show that the EU offers financial incentives to its migrant-transit member countries in exchange for holding migrants traveling from the Middle East and North Africa region within their territories. We use a subnational dataset on Southern Italy to examine the effects of migrant arrivals by boat on the amount of the European Regional Development Fund and the European Social Fund received by each autonomous region between 2006 and 2018. In addition, we provide a cross-national analysis of EU expenditures using data on unauthorized border crossings into the EU between 2009 and 2018. We find robust empirical support for the argument that the EU channels more funds to jurisdictions located on the major migrant-transit routes.

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内部工作：欧盟的移民和分配政治

在 2015 年移民危机之后，移民已成为欧盟 (EU) 的首要政策重点。鉴于非欧洲移民对其成员国的重大影响，欧盟实施了各种政策，以尽量减少其最富裕成员国境内的民众强烈反对，这些成员国也是移民的热门最终目的地。在本文中，我们展示了欧盟为其移民过境成员国提供财政激励措施，以换取将来自中东和北非地区的移民留在其领土内。我们使用意大利南部的地方数据集来研究乘船抵达的移民对 2006 年至 2018 年每个自治区收到的欧洲区域发展基金和欧洲社会基金金额的影响。此外，