The End of Asylum?

Evolving the Protection System to Meet 21st Century Challenges

The report sets out a transformative vision for how the international protection system can evolve, with a focus on the future of asylum. The report analyzes promising developments and ideas around facilitating orderly entry, ensuring system efficiency, and building regional capacity. It also examines how these elements could foster a system that is better at providing protection for those who need it while also securing public trust by reducing chaos at borders and ensuring that enforcement and the rule of law remain core elements. It is the concluding report produced under the three-year Beyond Territorial Asylum: Making Protection Work in a Bordered World initiative undertaken by MPI and the Robert Bosch Stiftung. The initiative seeks to explore new ways to facilitate access to protection that better support equity and results in more flexible, sustainable infrastructure.