The EU and Immigration Policies: Cracks in the Walls of Fortress Europe?

ISBN-13: 9781137302557 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 245 str.

Christof Roos

Opis

The EU and Immigration Policies: Cracks in the Walls of Fortress Europe? explores how and why the EU and its member states define immigration policies. A comparison of EU negotiations on five EU immigration directives reveals interests of actors in EU integration and whether common policies aim at a restriction or expansion of immigration to the EU.
The findings of the study suggest that some legal migration policies deviate to a certain extent from increased restrictions. Some member states were required to adapt their national laws to a more expansive EU policy. EU immigration policies actually define cracks in the walls of the 'Fortress Europe'. This development reflects a shift in immigration policy preferences among European countries from the late 1990s and early 2000s. The EU Commission used this window of opportunity and its power in policy framing to push member states toward EU integration. The author shows how the EU level could become the policy venue for member states' strategies on immigration regulation.

Recenzje

"It is concerned with the major challenges that globalization, broadly defined, poses for traditional state governance and policy making. ... the book offers both a comprehensive overview of EU immigration policies and policy making and a richness of empirical detail that hitherto have been lacking. In so doing it provides an illuminating starting point for all those encountering the subject for the first time." (Anthony M. Messina, The European Legacy, Vol. 20 (2), December, 2015)

Spis treści

1. The Regulation of Immigration by the European Union: An Empirical Puzzle 2. Actor Preferences in EU Immigration Policies 3. Actor Interactions in EU Immigration Politics 4. Shifting Immigration Policies to the EU Level: Timing and Framing Policies 5. The Family Reunification Directive 6. The Long-Term Residents Directive 7. EU Directives for Students and Researchers from Third Countries 8. The Labour Migration Directive 9. Accounts, Prospects, and International Migration Governance

O autorze

Christof Roos is Research Associate at the Collaborative Research Centre on 'Transformations of the State' at University of Bremen, Germany. He is co-author of Liberal States and the Freedom of Movement: Selective Borders, Unequal Mobility (with Steffen Mau, Heike Brabandt, and Lena Laube).