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Did 2016 Mark a New Start for EU External Migration Policy, or Was It Business as Usual? [1]

IAI Working Papers [2]

Did 2016 Mark a New Start for EU External Migration Policy, or Was It Business as Usual?

[3]
Authors:
Anja Palm [4]
25/11/2016

2016 has been sold as the year of innovative EU external migration policies. Have recent EU decisions and initiatives in this field really represented a change in direction? This paper argues that the EU’s external migration policy has long been based on the principles of externalization of migration control and conditionality in the relationship with third countries. The securitization of the EU’s external borders has long existed along with the lack of adequate legal migration channels. This has come at the cost of the protection of migrants’ and especially refugees’ rights. The EU-Turkey agreement and the New Partnership Framework are examined in order to assess whether they represent a change of this trend or merely its latest manifestation. The paper concludes that, despite some clear steps forward in 2016, there is still much left to do in order to create a real framework of common external migration action which moves away from securitization and externalization towards a protection-sensitive entry system.

iaiwp1633.pdf [3]

Details

  • Details

    Roma, IAI, November 2016, 17 p.
  • In:
    IAI Working Papers [2]
  • Issue

    16|33
  • ISBN/ISSN/DOI:
    978-88-9368-013-4

Table of contents

1. The EU’s external policy on migration: A long history of denying access to protection through externalization and securitization
1.1 No way in: Securitization and the asylum-migration nexus
1.2 The shortcomings of existing legal migration channels
2. 2016: The year of innovative policies or just business as usual?
2.1 The EU-Turkey deal: The first implementation in practice of the externalization approach?
2.2 Is the EU-Turkey deal “exportable”? The New Partnership Framework
2.3 How new is the New Partnership Framework?
Conclusions
References


Source URL:https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/c21/did-2016-mark-new-start-eu-external-migration-policy-or-was-it-business-usual

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[1] https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/c21/did-2016-mark-new-start-eu-external-migration-policy-or-was-it-business-usual [2] https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/lista/all/iai-working-papers [3] https://www.iai.it/sites/default/files/iaiwp1633.pdf [4] https://www.iai.it/en/persone/anja-palm