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Towards common EU migration and asylum policies?

• Andrew Geddes, Department of Politics, University
  of Sheffield, UK

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Towards Common EU Migration and Asylum Polices?

• Question What effects do changes in social and
  political relations within and between EU states
  and their neighbours have on understandings of
  and responses to international migration in its
  various forms?
• Focus on the external dimension and the
  development of new forms of European
  international migration relations

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Challenges?

• Flows
• Geo-political widening
• Conceptual widening
• Policies
• Spatial reconstruction
• Temporal reconstruction

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Borders

• Territorial
• Organisational central importance of labour
  market and welfare state borders
• Conceptual who belongs?
• Projection of Europes migration priorities onto
  surrounding states and regions to maintain the
  territorial, organisational and conceptual
  borders of European states

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EU Response

• Landmarks Amsterdam (1997), Tampere (1999) and a
  series of subsequent measures
• The links between the fight against illegal
  immigration and asylum (High Level Workiing
  Group on Migration and Asylum, search for
  durable solutions to asylum
• The end of asylum as now understood?

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Conclusions

• Projection of priorities in order to maintain
  territorial, organisational and conceptual
  borders
• Where is the challenge?
• The ways in which changed relations within and
  between European states and their neighbours
  shape understandings of and responses to
  international migration in its various forms