Safe Third Countries

Safe Third Countries

Extending the EU Asylum and Immigration Policies to Central and Eastern Europe

  • Author: Lavenex, Sandra
  • Publisher: Central European University Press
  • ISBN: 9789633864937
  • Place of publication:  Budapest , Hungary
  • Year of digital publication: 1999
  • Month: April
  • Pages: 204
  • DDC: 341.4/842/094
  • Language: English

The refugee issue has always been controversial and Lavenex's analyses add fuel to an already heated debate. She analyses the various bi- and multilateral processes by which the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs) are being gradually incorporated into a restrictive refugee regime established among the EU member states, in which the CEECs serve as "gate-keepers" for refugees and immigrants heading towards Western Europe.

At a time when many transition countries are trying to enter the EU, Lavenex highlights the CEECs consent to adapt to Western European policies aimed at fighting illegal immigration and reducing the numbers of asylum seekers as a political bargaining tool in exchange for future membership in the EU. She also argues that the regime undermines the values of international refugee protection and diffuses states' responsibilities by establishing a system of negative redistribution for the handling of asylum claims.

Safe Third Countries is the first comprehensive study on the extension of the emergent European refugee regime and highlights, in an innovative manner, the complex entanglement of domestic policies, European integration and international relations.

  • cover
  • front matter
  • title page
  • copyright page
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1 Refugees and lnternational Relations
    • THE EMERGENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL REGIME
    • THE EVOLUTION OF REFUGEE PROTECTION: BETWEEN CHANGE AND STAGNATION
  • 2 The Emergence of the EU Refugee Regime
    • CO-OPERATION IN THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE
    • INTERGOVERNMENTAL NEGOTIATIONS IN THE 1980'8
    • FROM MAASTRICHT TO AMSTERDAM
  • 3 The Extension of the EU Refugee Regime
    • THE EXPORT OF ASYLUM AND IMMIGRATION POLICIES: INTERGOVERNMENTAL PROCESSES
    • THE POLITICAL FRAME: ASYLUM, IMMIGRATION AND EU MEMBERSHIP
  • 4 Central and Eastern Europe's Adaptation to the EU 'Acquis'
    • BULGARIA
    • THE CZECH REPUBLIC
    • HUNGARY
    • POLAND
    • ROMANIA
    • SLOVENIA
    • SLOVAKIA
    • TH E BALTI C STATES
  • 5 A Clash of Regimes? European versus lnternational Refugee Protection
    • THE PRINCIPLE OF INTERNAL SECURITY
    • THE NORMS OF REDISTRIBUTION
    • THE RULES OF INTERGOVERNMENTALISM
  • References
  • Index
  • back cover

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