Borderline Practices – Irregular Migration and EU External Relations

Author(s): Lisa Watanabe
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Series Editor(s): Andreas Wenger
Book Title: Strategic Trends 2016: Key Developments in Global Affairs
Series: Strategic Trends
Pages: 29-45
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Place: Zurich

Irregular migration to Europe from the Middle East, Africa, South Asia and beyond will have ramifications for the European Union that go beyond the immediate challenges posed to border control-free travel and asylum procedures in the EU. The EU’s migration agenda is increasingly being taken up within the foreign policy realm as the need to focus on the external dimension of migration takes on greater urgency. However, ‘externalizing’ migration management practices through coopting neighboring states is likely to come at a normative price, given that a migration control oriented agenda that primarily serves EU interests is being outsourced.

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