The Securitisation of European Migration Policies: Perceptions of Threat and Management of Risk

Karamanidou, Lena

doi:10.1057/9781137480583_3

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“…In violating human rights, any state undermines its own legitimacy and loses the respect of the international community. Yet the EU has been criticized for bolstering exclusionary and securitized migration policies, for jumping onto the 'bandwagon' of Hungarian crisis management instead of effectively challenging it (Bilgic and Pace, 2017;Karamanidou, 2015;Peers, 2016). EU law does not criminalize irregular entry per se.…”

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Controlling irregular migration: International human rights standards and the Hungarian legal framework

Gyollai

Amatrudo

2018

European Journal of Criminology

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In the summer of 2015 Hungary constructed a 175 km long barbed-wire fence at its southern border with Serbia. New criminal offences and asylum procedures were introduced that limited access to refugee status determination and ignored agreed EU asylum policy, deterring and de facto preventing asylum seekers from entering Hungarian territory. This paper provides an analysis of these new measures, which criminalized asylum seekers, and the subsequent Hungarian policy in relation to the case law of the European Court of Human Rights – arguing that the Hungarian authorities excessively abused their discretion in implementing these new policies of immigration and border control.

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Controlling irregular migration: International human rights standards and the Hungarian legal framework

Gyollai

Amatrudo

2018

European Journal of Criminology

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“…This new research line calls for new analytical perspectives to account for the major institutional changes, particularly the enhanced powers of the EU supranational institutions, their role and capacity to impact the decision and policy-making in the asylum policy (e.g. Kaunert & Léonard 2012;Maurer & Parkes 2007;Ripoll Servent & Trauner 2014, 2015.…”

Section: Venue-shopping and The Role Of The Eu Institutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Even if cooperation in asylum policy may have raised the legal standards in a number of member states, different ´securitisation' dimensions have been observed in the decision-making process of this policy area (Huysmans 2000;Lavenex 2001c;Boswell 2003;Guild 2006;Chou 2009;Karamanidou 2015;Trauner 2016). For example, one academic noted that there was a notable concern during the Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) accession negotiations to safeguard the security of the rest of the Union (Lavenex 2001a).…”

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“…The securitisation of the EU asylum policy has been also endorsed by linking migration and asylum with issues such as economic and financial crisis (Trauner 2016), criminal activity and terrorism (Karamanidou 2015). The financial burden of increasing the rights of asylum seekers during the economic crisis has become a relevant discursive argument in the EU (Trauner 2016).…”

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Understanding the European Integration in the Asylum Policy: State-of-the-Art and Avenues for Future Research

Silvestre¹

2019

JCER

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This commentary reviews the literature on European integration in the asylum policy area and offers a roadmap for future research. Whereas early studies explain integration through a state-centred approach, recent studies rely on the theory of institutionalism to address the circular causality in the European process. The Council has so far been at the heart of decision-making in this policy area. However, there are still important dimensions of the Council´s dynamics unexplored in the literature. Therefore, this commentary proposes a research agenda to better understand not only the member states' negotiation behaviour, policy preferences and positions in the Council but also the interplay between the EU institutions and its impact on the European integration.

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“…Geneva Convention on the Status of Refugees; over the past three decades, the EU has developed a system designed to ensure the protection of those who arrive in Europe as refugees and qualify for receiving asylum (Cherubini 2015). Initially, this system was one of intergovernmental cooperation, but later on, EU institutions were given more responsibility in the field of asylum policy (Karamanidou 2015). This system was tested to the limit during the 2015-2016 refugee crisis and it has revealed a number of significant flaws.…”

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Towards a Common European Union Immigration Policy: Navigating a Difficult Obstacle Course

Moldovan¹,

Europene²

2018

OJMNE

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Preliminary considerationsEurope has had a long history of being the final destination that millions of people throughout time have tried to reach in search of a better, more secure, more fulfilling life. As such, migration has been an integral part of the continent's history and, for better or worse, has shaped and transformed it in many different ways. It is clear that migration still shapes and transforms the contemporary European Unionbut these days, more often than not, the omnipresent discussions and fears triggered by a "migration crisis" appear to transform it into a rather hostile environment designed to make life difficult for newcomers and to deter others from following suit. The term Abstract: The following article focuses on the various attempts that have been carried out to reform the migration and asylum legislation of the European Union. It examines the current perceptions about migration following the 2015-2016 migration and refugee crisis, and then briefly traces the historical evolution of the current legal framework on migration and asylum.My aim is to show how this evolution has reached the point where any attempts to reform the system are primarily driven by security, rather than humanitarian considerations, which makes consensus on any contentious issue very difficult to achieve, a fact highlighted in the third section of the present contribution. The conclusions discuss the limited scope of the latest attempt to overhaul the existing immigration framework, arguing that EU member states are still reluctant to transfer decision-making responsibilities to the supranational level regarding what they consider a matter crucial to their national sovereignty.

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The Securitisation of European Migration Policies: Perceptions of Threat and Management of Risk

Cited by 27 publications

References 25 publications

Controlling irregular migration: International human rights standards and the Hungarian legal framework

Controlling irregular migration: International human rights standards and the Hungarian legal framework

Understanding the European Integration in the Asylum Policy: State-of-the-Art and Avenues for Future Research

Towards a Common European Union Immigration Policy: Navigating a Difficult Obstacle Course

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