Borderline Practices – Irregular Migration and EU External Relations

Autor(en): Lisa Watanabe
Herausgeber: Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Reihenherausgeber: Andreas Wenger
Buchtitel: Strategic Trends 2016: Key Developments in Global Affairs
Serie: Strategic Trends
Seiten: 29-45
Verlag(e): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publikationsjahr: 2016
Publikationsort: Zürich

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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