The book provides a comprehensive legal assessment of four different types of safe pathways to
protection in the EU: the asylum visa resettlement ad hoc humanitarian admission and
sponsorship programs. It investigates the effects these pathways can have on the asylum paradox
that is the paradoxical interplay in current EU asylum policy between the granting of
territorial protection on the one hand and the prevention of access to territory on the other.
Based on the assumption that the asylum paradox is the result of a conflict of responsibility
principles the book develops an analytical tool a responsibility framework for the analysis
and assessment. Overall the book identifies normative differences depending on the specific
pathway and its details of implementation.
