A common EU migration policy? EU immigration and asylum policy from the perspective of regime complexity
(2013) STVM23 20131Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- Since the creation of the Schengen cooperation the internal borders within the EU have disappeared and been replaced by a common external border. This has led to an increased coordination of migration policy.
Scholars have discussed the EU approach to migration from different perspectives. In this thesis the ambition is to introduce a new theoretical framework in the study of EU immigration and asylum policy. By using the theory of regimes and regime complexity the thesis contributes to put the EU migration policy into a new perspective. According to my results it is not only security and human rights that are important to discuss in relation to the migration policy but also the EU internal market and its economic goals of... (More) - Since the creation of the Schengen cooperation the internal borders within the EU have disappeared and been replaced by a common external border. This has led to an increased coordination of migration policy.
Scholars have discussed the EU approach to migration from different perspectives. In this thesis the ambition is to introduce a new theoretical framework in the study of EU immigration and asylum policy. By using the theory of regimes and regime complexity the thesis contributes to put the EU migration policy into a new perspective. According to my results it is not only security and human rights that are important to discuss in relation to the migration policy but also the EU internal market and its economic goals of competitiveness. The thesis provides examples of how migration and asylum policy within different EU Member States not only increasingly have the same rules and decision-making procedures but also how implicit norms and practices are common, despite the grand differences in numbers of asylum applications and recognitions of refugee status and other forms of protection. (Less)
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- author
- Plathner, Christine LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- STVM23 20131
- year
- 2013
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- EU migration policy, asylum, regime complexity, immigration, regimes
- language
- English
- id
- 3971421
- date added to LUP
- 2013-09-02 09:23:30
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- 2013-09-02 09:23:30
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abstract = {{Since the creation of the Schengen cooperation the internal borders within the EU have disappeared and been replaced by a common external border. This has led to an increased coordination of migration policy.
Scholars have discussed the EU approach to migration from different perspectives. In this thesis the ambition is to introduce a new theoretical framework in the study of EU immigration and asylum policy. By using the theory of regimes and regime complexity the thesis contributes to put the EU migration policy into a new perspective. According to my results it is not only security and human rights that are important to discuss in relation to the migration policy but also the EU internal market and its economic goals of competitiveness. The thesis provides examples of how migration and asylum policy within different EU Member States not only increasingly have the same rules and decision-making procedures but also how implicit norms and practices are common, despite the grand differences in numbers of asylum applications and recognitions of refugee status and other forms of protection.}},
author = {{Plathner, Christine}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{A common EU migration policy? EU immigration and asylum policy from the perspective of regime complexity}},
year = {{2013}},
}