Power and Counter Power in Europe. The Transnational Structuring of Social Spaces and Social Fields

Pernicka, Susanne; Lahusen, Christian

doi:10.1007/s11614-018-0295-9

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“…To grasp the strategies of relevant actors involved in the directive's implementation, this article builds on the recent move in scholarly debates to apply Bourdieu's () concept of social fields at a transnational level (Go and Krause, ). The field approach enables researchers to study emerging transnational fields, such as the EU's asylum policies, in relation to the changing role of individual and collective actors, including states and their institutions (Stampnitzky, : 173; Pernicka and Lahusen, ; Schneider and Nieswandt, ). This sociological approach raises the question of how an emerging transnational field of asylum policies is characterized not only by legal and institutional frameworks but also by the strategies and interests of the actors involved in its design and implementation.…”

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Implementing and Rethinking the European Union's Asylum Legislation: The Asylum Procedures Directive

Schittenhelm

2018

International Migration

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The Asylum Procedures Directive, which was put in place in the context of the Common European Asylum System, is expected to both harmonise the asylum procedures in the European Union and to safeguard applicants’ rights. This article explores various steps in the implementation of the directive, starting with transnational negotiations which aim to influence domestic asylum policies. Focusing on asylum systems in Germany and Sweden, the article shows that the way decision makers implement the directive is shaped by diverging domestic asylum policies. The risk of failing common standards, however, is not only a matter of implementation, but inherent in the directive's design. Furthermore, harmonisation does not necessarily improve compliance with the principles of international refugee law. Safeguarding protection seekers’ rights requires rethinking both asylum legislation and the role of the actors who intervene in its implementation.

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Implementing and Rethinking the European Union's Asylum Legislation: The Asylum Procedures Directive

Schittenhelm

2018

International Migration

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“…However, Europeanization theory beyond integration requires an approach that a) regards the multifold and partly ambiguous processes below the structural macro-level and b) rejects the dualisms of integration vs. disintegration, adaption vs. peculiarity and the like, while maintaining the idea of a particular institutionalized transnationalism. Concerning the first requirement, a growing body of literature underlines the multifold horizontal processes of Europeanization, which https://doi.org/10.5771/2566-7742-2018-3-56, am 06.12.2021, 06:30:26 Open Access --http://www.nomos-elibrary.de/agb are conceived as the core of sociological approaches to Europeanization (Pernicka & Lahusen, 2018). In particular, the concept of social fields based on Bourdieu's field theory, Weber's value spheres or Fligstein's Strategic Action Fields, moved to the fore of the debate on the societal component of Europeanization (Bernhard & Schmidt-Wellenburg, 2012;Kauppi, 2012;Lahusen & Pernicka, 2016;Mérand, 2012).…”

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The 'making' of Europe in the peripheries: Europeanization through conflicts and ambivalences

Worschech¹

2018

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In the social sciences, the idea of Europeanization as a pathway to an ever closer European Union and deepened integration is not uncontested, though it is still a popular concept. However, a paradigmatic turn towards a conflict-theoretical idea of Europeanization that is capable of taking into account the fuzziness and ambiguity of 'making Europe' is still wanting. In this article, I argue that Europeanization has never been unilinear and teleological but consists of ambivalences, turbulences, crises and simultaneous interlinked and contrary processes on transnational, national and subnational levels. Based on different theoretical strands of thought on social change, in particular Charles Tilly's political process model, I elaborate both this turn and a concept in three theoretical propositions that are based on one another and that constitute a systematically conflict-oriented concept of Europeanization. I illustrate the explanatory and analytical potential of the concept with an example that stands for ambivalent Europeanization processes beyond the EU's heartland: Ukraine. This view from the peripheries makes visible the need to analyze Europeanization as a multifold process involving inherent contradictions.

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Das Feld der Macht als gesellschaftstheoretisches Schlüsselkonzept

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Power and Counter Power in Europe. The Transnational Structuring of Social Spaces and Social Fields

Cited by 4 publications

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Implementing and Rethinking the European Union's Asylum Legislation: The Asylum Procedures Directive

Implementing and Rethinking the European Union's Asylum Legislation: The Asylum Procedures Directive

The 'making' of Europe in the peripheries: Europeanization through conflicts and ambivalences

Das Feld der Macht als gesellschaftstheoretisches Schlüsselkonzept

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