The Europeanization of National Immigration Policies Between Autonomy and the European Union

by Faist, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9781403987136
• ISBN10: 1403987130
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The Europeanisation of National Immigration Policies offers a comprehensive empirical assessment of the Europeanization of national immigration policies. The authors argue that the impact of European integration has changed national migration policies and the political process of migration policy-making in member states and states bordering the European Union. For example EU integration has led to the strengthening of the executive and the weakening of the parliament in the national configuration of power. Also, the externalisation of migration policy includes the shift of migration control from the national border to safe third countries or to asylum processing centres close to the sending states.

Author Biography

THOMAS FAIST is Professor of Transnational Relations and Development Studies at the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany. His research interests focus on transnational spaces, migration and post-migration processes, citizenship, social and development policy.
ANDREAS ETTE is a Research Associate at the Federal Institute for Population Research, Germany and a PhD Candidate at Bielefeld University. He was previously a Research Fellow of the Collaborative Research Centre 'Transformations of the State' at the University of Bremen, Germany.

Table of Contents

Introduction--M.Baumann & A.Ette & T.Faist & M.Fauser * PART I: REGULATING MIGRATION IN EUROPE * European Integration and the Politics European Migration Policy-Making--A.Geddes * The European Union and Policies of Immigration Control--M.Baumann * PART II: THE EUROPEAN IMPACT ON NATIONAL POLICIES AND POLITICS OF IMMIGRATION - CORE MEMBER STATES * Germany: Active Europeanization of National Immigration Control--K.Prümm & S.Alscher * The United Kingdom: British Exceptionalism?--A.Ette & J.Gerdes * Sweden: The Belief in Strong Control--M.Spång * Greece: Europeanization à la carte--G.Mavrodi * Spain: The EU's Mediterranean Bridge--M.Fauser * PART III: THE EUROPEAN IMPACT ON NATIONAL POLICIES AND POLITICS OF IMMIGRATION - THE CASE OF NEW MEMBER STATES AND PERIPHERAL STATES * Externalization and European Integration: New Member States and International Organizations--S.Lavenex * Poland: From Periphery to Centre--A.Weinar & A.Górny * Turkey: Secure Border Control in Exchange for Membership--A.Içduygu * Albania: The Long Way to Europe--I.Kruse

Introduction--M.Baumann & A.Ette & T.Faist & M.Fauser * PART I: REGULATING MIGRATION IN EUROPE * European Integration and the Politics European Migration Policy-Making--A.Geddes * The European Union and Policies of Immigration Control--M.Baumann * PART II: THE EUROPEAN IMPACT ON NATIONAL POLICIES AND POLITICS OF IMMIGRATION - CORE MEMBER STATES * Germany: Active Europeanization of National Immigration Control--K.Prümm & S.Alscher * The United Kingdom: British Exceptionalism?--A.Ette & J.Gerdes * Sweden: The Belief in Strong Control--M.Spång * Greece: Europeanization à la carte--G.Mavrodi * Spain: The EU's Mediterranean Bridge--M.Fauser * PART III: THE EUROPEAN IMPACT ON NATIONAL POLICIES AND POLITICS OF IMMIGRATION - THE CASE OF NEW MEMBER STATES AND PERIPHERAL STATES * Externalization and European Integration: New Member States and International Organizations--S.Lavenex * Poland: From Periphery to Centre--A.Weinar & A.Górny * Turkey: Secure Border Control in Exchange for Membership--A.Içduygu * Albania: The Long Way to Europe--I.Kruse