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Framing an EU level regularization mechanism: mission impossible?

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posted on 2017-02-02, 14:37 authored by Ali BilgicAli Bilgic
European Union Member States have so far tackled the problem of irregular migration in Europe by adopting common policies which aim to prevent irregular arrivals on the EU borders. In their EU-level policies, they have neglected regularization as an alternative EU-level policy addressing irregular migration. This represents a contrast to regularizations which are performed by many EU Member States. However, the EU Commission has gradually adopted a more positive stance about regularization. This article will discuss the principles of an EU-level regularization scheme through the analysis of the Commission's ideas on the issue. It will be argued that, rather than adopting a common policy, the flexible set of measures, which guide Member States in formulating regularization mechanism for protection/humanitarian reasons, can be formulated at the EU level.

History

School

  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Politics and International Studies

Published in

International Migration

Volume

51

Issue

5

Pages

21 - 33

Citation

BILGIC, A., 2013. Framing an EU level regularization mechanism: mission impossible? International Migration, 51 (5), pp. 21-33.

Publisher

© The Author and International Organization for Migration (IOM). Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2013

Notes

This paper is closed access.

ISSN

0020-7985

eISSN

1468-2435

Language

  • en