Safe Third Countries

Extending the EU Asylum and Immigration Policies to Central and Eastern Europe
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-963-9116-44-3
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 339 g

The refugee issue has always been controversial and Lavenex's analyses add fuel to an already heated debate. She analyses the various bi- and multilateral processes by which the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs) are being gradually incorporated into a restrictive refugee regime established among the EU member states, in which the CEECs serve as gate-keepers for refugees and immigrants heading towards Western Europe.

At a time when many transition countries are trying to enter the EU, Lavenex highlights the CEECs consent to adapt to Western European policies aimed at fighting illegal immigration and reducing the numbers of asylum seekers as a political bargaining tool in exchange for future membership in the EU. She also argues that the regime undermines the values of international refugee protection and diffuses states' responsibilities by establishing a system of negative redistribution for the handling of asylum claims.

Safe Third Countries is the first comprehensive study on the extension of the emergent European refugee regime and highlights, in an innovative manner, the complex entanglement of domestic policies, European integration and international relations.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lavenex, Sandra

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface, 1 Refugees and International Relations, 2 The Emergence of the EU Refugee Regime, 3 The Extension of the EU refugee Regime, 4 Central and Eastern Europe’s Adaptation to the EU ‘Acquis’, 5 A Clas of Regimes? European versus International Refugee Protection, References, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sandra Lavenex is at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Florence, Italy. She is the author of two previous titles on refugee issues.