Towards a Common European Space for Asylum

E. V. Petracou, G. N. Domazakis, G. I. Papayiannis and A. N. Yannacopoulos
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E. V. Petracou: Department of Geography, University of Aegean, 81100 Mytilene, Greece
G. N. Domazakis: Department of Statistics and Stochastic Modeling and Applications Laboratory, Athens University of Economics & Business, 10434 Athens, Greece
G. I. Papayiannis: Department of Statistics and Stochastic Modeling and Applications Laboratory, Athens University of Economics & Business, 10434 Athens, Greece
A. N. Yannacopoulos: Department of Statistics and Stochastic Modeling and Applications Laboratory, Athens University of Economics & Business, 10434 Athens, Greece

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 9, 1-17

Abstract: In this paper, we provide a critical overview of the current migration policies of the EU as framed by the recent amendments of the EU migration policies since 2015. We highlight that the construction of the migration policy is a constitutive element of the spatial process of reorganization of territorial policies through the combination and diffusion of state, regional and global. We show that the perception of permanent and static migration pressure, and countries’ specialization in migration are the basis for diffusion of asylum and migration policies to a number of different countries imposing similar migration systems and establishing a global governance of migration regime. The paper highlights a geographic and political change in migration and border management, through the patterns of EU Member States cooperation, and in particular their reluctance to establish a common asylum system based on solidarity and the focus on substituting the lack of a common asylum system by bilateral externalization agreements the main objective of which is the management of migration and border control rather than guaranteeing asylum and refugee policies.

Keywords: EU; migration; asylum; partnerships; relocation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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