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• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• List of Acronyms
• 1: Studying Migration and Mobility in the European Union
• Migration and EU population
• Key questions
• The EU’s role
• Multilevel politics
• The paradox of Europe’s borders
• The politicisation of migration
• The complexities of European migration politics and policy
• Organisation of the book
• 2: Migration and Migration Policy in Europe
• Migration and refugee flows in Europe since World War II
• Making sense of migration
• Labour migration
• The core dilemma
• Family migration
• The core dilemma
• Irregular migration
• The core dilemma
• Asylum and refugee flows
• The core dilemma
• Intra-EU mobility
• The core dilemma
• Integration
• The core dilemma
• Understanding the policy process: policy failure or securitisation?
• Policy failure
• Securitisation
• Understanding migration policymaking
• A framework for analysis of European migration politics
• ‘Talk’, ‘decision’ and ‘action’
• Deliberate malintegration
• The policy stream
• Summary
• 3: The EU Dimension of Migration and Asylum Policy
• Stability and change
• The multilevel setting of EU policy
• EU institutions
• Schengen
• The Commission’s role
• The JHA Council
• The European Council
• The European Parliament
• Relocation, relocation, relocation
• Spatial relocations of competence and capacity to act
• Temporal shifts in the making and operation of European migration policy
• A social relocation and its effects on migration and mobility in the EU
• Europeanisation
• Analysing the effects of EU migration and asylum policy
• Narratives and ideas
• Politics and political mobilisation
• Public administration
• Implementation
• Summary
• 4: Labour Migration
• Explaining labour migration policy
• Narratives
• Economic arguments
• Political debate
• Germany and the UK: making the case for labour migration?
• Spain and Italy: new immigration countries with fluctuating approaches
• The EU’s limited role in labour migration policy
• Commission forays
• New EU thinking on migration and mobility?
• Administrative practice and implementation
• Bureaucracies and labour migration
• Conclusion
• 5: Family Migration
• The centrality of family migration
• The right to family migration?
• Narratives
• What is the family?
• The demand for family migration
• Political debate
• The EU’s role
• The EU’s Family Reunion Directive
• Administrative practice and implementation
• Conclusion
• 6: Irregular Immigration
• The dark side of admissions policies
• Narratives
• The contest to define the issues
• Terms and their shortcomings
• The ‘migration industry’
• The fight against irregular immigration
• Political debate
• The EU and the issue of return
• Administrative practice and implementation
• Non-deportability
• Conclusion
• 7: Asylum
• EU cooperation on asylum: key themes
• Policy aims and evolution
• Narratives
• Political debate
• Competing visions
• Attitudes to asylum
• Preventing arrivals
• Administrative practice and implementation
• Misfit between regulations and administrative capabilities
• The limits of restrictive approaches
• Conclusion
• 8: Mobility and Citizenship
• The EU framework
• Narratives
• Mobility, the free movement of workers and migration
• EU citizenship
• The Erasmus programme, mobility and European identity
• Political debate
• Administrative practice and implementation
• Conclusion
• 9: Immigrant Integration
• Narratives
• Levels and dimensions
• Political debate
• The EU dimension
• Soft governance
• Externalisation of immigrant integration
• Administrative practice and implementation
• Conclusion
• 10: Conclusion
• Politics and politicisation
• Multilevel politics
• Thinking about the future
• References
• Index