Migration and Refugee Policies in Germany : New European Limits of Control? / Andreas Ette

International migration is one of the most controversial political topics today which demands innovative approaches of global and regional governance. The book provides a fresh theoretical framework to understand European responses to the international migration of people and explains the dynamics o...

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Year of Publication:2017
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Beiträge zur Bevölkerungswissenschaft ; Volume 51.
Physical Description:1 online resource (316 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • List of illustrations
  • List of abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • From 'fortress Europe' to new 'limits of control'? the increasing diversity of refugee and migration policies in Europe
  • Research questions : multiple mechanisms of europeanisation
  • Constructing a systematic empirical research strategy : comparative case studies in a crucial member state
  • Chapter outline
  • Stocktaking the europeanisation of refugee and migration policies
  • Institutional and substantive developments in Europe's refugee and migration policies
  • Pre-Amsterdam institutional configurations and its policy outcomes
  • Post-Amsterdam institutional developments
  • Post-Amsterdam substantive policy developments
  • Theoretical frameworks approaching the europeanisation of refugee and migration policies
  • Neo-functionalism : the weakness of supranational organisations
  • Intergovernmentalism : executive preferences at the centre
  • Constructivism : the power of policy ideas
  • Europeanisation : the legacy of historical institutionalism
  • Approaching the increasing diversity of Europe's refugee and migration policies
  • Political sociology of European refugee and migration policies
  • Outcomes of europeanisation : approaching the 'dependent variable problem'
  • Outcome and output indicators
  • Quantitative and qualitative indicators
  • Direction of europeanisation
  • Extent of europeanisation
  • Mechanisms of europeanisation : theoretical links between Europe and its member states
  • Separating two dimensions of europeanisation
  • Typology of mechanisms of europeanisation
  • Analysing europeanisation : process tracing in comparative case studies
  • Turn the tables : analysing europeanisation from the bottom-up
  • Process tracing : constructing causal inferences
  • Disaggregation : comparative case studies in a crucial member state
  • Conclusion
  • Opposing Europe through the backdoor? refugees between national control imperatives and the supranationalisation of rights
  • Introduction
  • Regaining control : three rounds of asylum conflict in national contexts
  • First round : attempting to restrict, streamline and deter
  • Second round : dismantling the constitutional asylum right
  • Third round : policy continuity after the asylum compromise
  • Power of supranationalisation : constitutionalising refugee rights in Europe
  • Ambitious policy proposals by the European commission
  • Negotiating refugee rights within the council
  • Opposition and learning : the fourth round in Germany's asylum conflict in european contexts
  • Opposing Europe : the dominance of the administration
  • Learning from Europe : legislative negotiations, court rooms and in the streets
  • Conclusion
  • Circumventing national enforcement constraints? shopping for effective return policies in European venues
  • Introduction
  • Gaps between aims and outcomes : establishing a national deportation policy
  • Transforming deportation into an instrument of migration control
  • National enforcement constraints
  • Executive cooperation in Europe : shopping for multilateral solutions
  • International cooperation : weaving the readmission net closer
  • Operational cooperation : assisting each other with deportations
  • Legal harmonisation : codifying coercive state capacities
  • Unbearable lightness of complying : the administrative implementation of new European structures
  • Cosmetic changes to the legal framework
  • Dualist systems of readmission
  • Centralised European structures of operational cooperation
  • Conclusion
  • Policy learning in Europe? new ideas governing highly skilled labour migration
  • Introduction
  • Developing policy ideas and templates : towards a common European highly skilled labour migration policy
  • Security considerations trump economic interests
  • New policy idea on highly skilled labour migration
  • New policy templates on highly skilled labour migration
  • Learning from policy ideas and templates : Germany's transformation from 'no immigration' to the 'welcome culture'
  • Muddling through : labour migration policy until the 1990s
  • Putative surprises : the advent of new norm entrepreneurs
  • Incremental transformation : national policy developments in a European context
  • Conclusion
  • Playing a wrong plot? rhetoric compliance with Europe's migration and development agenda
  • Introduction
  • Balancing acts between insurmountable interests : developing a comprehensive approach on migration in Europe
  • Mutually exclusive disinterest between migration and development actors
  • Making migration work for development : the birth of a new policy idea
  • Developing a common agenda : concrete policy templates addressing the migration-development nexus
  • Progressive ideas on infertile ground : missing resonance and norm entrepreneurs in Germany
  • Migration-development nexus on the ground : a trimmed agenda
  • Inconsistent discourses : missing resonance of the new policy idea
  • Ministerial turf wars : the absence of national norm entrepreneurs
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • Patterns of europeanisation : moderate but diverse impacts on Germany's refugee and migration policies
  • Mechanisms of europeanisation : from an external venue for national executives to normalised multi-level policy-making processes
  • Europe at the crossroads : mechanisms of europeanisation and the recent migration crises
  • Bibliography
  • Primary sources
  • Secondary sources
  • Index.