Governing Mobility Beyond the State [electronic resource] : Centre, Periphery and the EU's External Borders /
Müller, A.author.
This book explores the structural tensions and conflicts that arise with the abolition of border controls between the EU's member states and how this conflict ridden relationship affects and is affected by the institutional shape of the EU's external borders.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; 1 Introduction; 2 Post-national Borders as Functions or Institutions: A Theoretical Framework; Introduction; Borders and state formation; Functional concepts of the border; Globalization, risk society, and the devolution of borders; Borders and the provision of selective controls; Disaggregating the institution and its function; Borders as reciprocal restriction of influence; National borders; Conclusion; 3 The European Union and the Transformation of Borders; Introduction
The EU's external borders: fixed borders or moving border zones?Heterogeneity and the question of external borders; The EU's institutional framework for policies on external borders; Conclusion; 4 Methods and Research Design; Case study design and case selection; Applied methods; 5 Maintaining Internal Freedom of Movement: The European Commission's Perspective on the External EU-Borders; Supranationalization and the abolition of border controls; Endogenous threats to the abolition of internal border controls; The requirements for lifting internal controls
Strengthening controls, increasing permeability: the Commission's ambivalent strategyTightening border controls I: Integrated Border Management; Tightening border controls II: strengthening codification; Tightening border controls III: the operational dimension; Burden sharing between promoting mobility and financial redistribution; Delegating exclusion: the EU's neighbours in the control of external borders; The external dimension of migration control; Developing leverage: enlargement and the ENP; Conclusion; 6 Enforcing Selective Migration Policies: Germany and the External EU-Borders
Public rejection and economic need: structural pressure on German migration policySkill shortage, demographic change and the welfare state; The need for an efficient migration control system; Germany in the policy on the EU's external borders; Asylum; Schengen visa; Circular labour migration; Border controls; Conclusion; 7 Promoting Open Borders: Poland and the Visa Obligation; Introduction; The political relevance of migration control; The technical and social costs of Schengen; Schengen and Poland's foreign policy; Promoting visa-free travel: Poland in the JHA Council; Conclusion
8 The Institutionalization of the EU's Border Regime between Poland and UkraineIntroduction; Transforming national into supranational borders; The Schengen acquis and the target of transformation; The process of transformation; The development of border controls at the EU level; The supranationalization of the Schengen regime; Europeanization of border controls; Visa requirements and the exterritorialization of controls; Ukrainian interest in cooperation on migration; Establishing buffer areas for migration; Conclusion; 9 Conclusion: Synthesis and Outlook; Annexes; Annexe I: Abbreviations
Annexe II: List of expert interviews
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book explores the structural tensions and conflicts that arise with the abolition of border controls between the EU's member states and how this conflict ridden relationship affects and is affected by the institutional shape of the EU's external borders.
Ethnology-Europe.
Europe-Politics and government.
European Union.
Emigration and immigration.
Political sociology.
Political science.
European Culture.
European Politics.
European Union Politics.
Migration.
Political Sociology.
Political Science.