 Schengen Borders In Practice: Facts About Finland (And Russia)Anna Dekalchuk ()
HSE Working papers from National Research University Higher School of Economics Abstract: This article attempts to solve the empirical puzzle posed by the way the Finnish diplomatic missions issue Schengen visas to the Russians. Building on the theory of the Self and the Other, a theoretical expectation about the uniformity of the Schengen visa regime is brought forward and further checked against the legal reality of the European Union common visa policy and the Finnish-Russian visa issuance arrangements. The case study of the experience that the Finns have with the Russians coming to their territory and history of the Finnish-Russian relations is carried out to dismantle the panoply of motives and meanings laying behind a particular visa regime and to show how the interplay of various political, economic and social factors works to produce peculiar policy outcomes. The main findings prove that despite both theoretical expectations and legal rules governing the Schengen borders and visas, in practice different member states apply the ‘common’ regime differently depending on both economic rationale and historical memories. Keywords: Borders; visa policy; Schengen; Finnish-Russian relations; EU-Russian relations; Self and Other. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in WP BRP Series: International Relations / IR, September 2014, pages 1-23 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hig:wpaper:05/ir/2014 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in HSE Working papers from National Research University Higher School of Economics |
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