Asylum policy: the EU’s ‘crises’ and the looming policy regime failure

Trauner, Florian

doi:10.1080/07036337.2016.1140756

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“…Rather, the budget constraints of public administration impacted on some southern EU member states' capacity in fully implementing EU border and asylum policy. But also beyond the southern EU member states, crisis-related budget constraints can restrain expenditures related to a countries' asylum-seekers' reception system and hence impact on the quality of reception conditions in individual states (Trauner 2016). Researching discourse, Lindley's edited volume (2014) points to crisis effects in terms of a government practice that links immigration to insecurity.…”

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The global economic crisis as a critical juncture? The crisis’s impact on migration movements and policies in Europe and the U.S.

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Zaun²

2016

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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The global economic crisis as a critical juncture? The crisis’s impact on migration movements and policies in Europe and the U.S.

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Zaun²

2016

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…In October 2015, in response to the increased numbers of asylum‐seekers and dissatisfied with EU efforts to co‐ordinate external border control, Hungary took the drastic measure of erecting a new fence along its borders with Croatia and Serbia. This step allowed Hungary to shift migration flows to neighbouring countries, particularly Slovenia (Trauner, , p. 320). This eventually led to a complete closure of the ‘Balkan route’, trapping tens of thousands of migrants/refugees in Greece where they often had to live in devastating conditions (Weber, , p. 38).…”

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EU Refugee Policies and Politics in Times of Crisis: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

Niemann

Zaun

2017

J of Common Market Studies

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In 2015/16, Europe faced the largest inflow of refugees since World War II. This inflow highlighted systemic deficiencies in EU asylum co-operation which provoked a state of crisis. Together with the Eurozone crisis, this crisis has the potential to seriously damage the overall project of EU integration. The goal of this Special Issue is to provide a first systematic assessment of the crisis, applying and further developing key theoretical approaches to the sequence of events. In empirical terms, we advance original empirical evidence in order to deepen our understanding of the crisis and how it has been managed. In theoretical terms, we seek to (re)assess the usefulness and limitations of some important theoretical perspectives to European integration at a critical juncture of the EU's history. After presenting the sequence of events and assessing the EU's crisis response, the introduction will summarize our main findings and present avenues for further research.

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“…However, neither judicialisation nor cooperation has resolved the central conflicts in the asylum administrative field. Restrictive border controls impede access to asylum procedures and national asylum systems still differ substantially in their standards, caseloads and outcomes (ECRE 2015;Parusel 2015;Toshkov and de Haan 2013;Trauner 2016). At the same time, the CEAS itself is far from coherent and is still "halfway between a bric-a-brac and a true system" (Chetail 2016, p. 586).…”

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EASO—Support Office or Asylum Authority? Boundary Disputes in the European Field of Asylum Administration

Schneider

Nieswandt

2018

Österreich Z Soziol

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With the establishment of the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) in 2010, a new collective actor entered the European asylum policy arena. Although the agency commands limited financial and personnel resources, and has no formal powers to directly interfere in the decision-making practices of asylum authorities across Europe, its mandate and reach of influence are a subject of recurrent dispute. We consider the struggles surrounding the EASO's role and position as manifestations of enduring conflicts of recognition, valuation and distribution in a Europeanised asylum administrative field. By analysing civil servants' position-takings vis-à-vis the EASO, we demonstrate that officials from a variety of member states are united by a shared belief in disinterested, apolitical bureaucratic rules of procedure, based on a notion of 'expertise' that transcends national boundaries and supersedes national concerns. At the same time, the discursive boundary work invested by the interviewees draws on spatial, temporal and procedural categories of differentiation, highlighting complex processes of ongoing relational positionings and practices of distinction. The corresponding hierarchies and inequalities are further indications of a transnational administrative field with its own principles of valuation.The interviews on which this article is based were conducted in the context of the research project 'The European Field of Asylum Administrations: transnational practices between cooperation and conflict' (University of Siegen) and funded by the German Research Foundation in the framework of the research unit 'Horizontal Europeanization' (FOR1539). The authors would like to thank Marius Wacker for his contribution to the collection of data and analysis, without which this article would not have come into being. We also thank Christian Lahusen and Karin Schittenhelm and the two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions on earlier versions of this article.S. Schneider ( ) · C. Nieswandt ( ) Philosophische Fakultät,

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Asylum policy: the EU’s ‘crises’ and the looming policy regime failure

Cited by 216 publications

References 28 publications

The global economic crisis as a critical juncture? The crisis’s impact on migration movements and policies in Europe and the U.S.

The global economic crisis as a critical juncture? The crisis’s impact on migration movements and policies in Europe and the U.S.

EU Refugee Policies and Politics in Times of Crisis: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

EASO—Support Office or Asylum Authority? Boundary Disputes in the European Field of Asylum Administration

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