A common European asylum system? How variation in Member States’ administrative capacity undermines EU asylum harmonisation
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The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of Migration in Europe. ed. / Agnieszka Weinar; Saskia Bonjour; Lyubov Zhyznomirska. Taylor and Francis Inc., 2018. p. 315-329.
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T1 - A common European asylum system? How variation in Member States’ administrative capacity undermines EU asylum harmonisation
AU - Zaun, Natascha
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2019 selection and editorial matter, Agnieszka Weinar, Saskia Bonjour and Lyubov Zhyznomirska; individual chapters, the contributors.
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - This chapter gives an overview over the research on EU asylum policy harmonisation and explains why attempts to harmonise EU asylum policies to date have had little success in practice. It argues that only a group of Member States, the so-called strong regulators, has been effective in shaping EU asylum policies. These states include countries like Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden and have a long regulatory tradition in asylum policies as well as effectively working administrations that allow them to build credible expertise and strong positions for the negotiations. Weak regulators such as Italy and Greece, on the other hand, do not have any of these resources and hence remain rather passive in the negotiations. They subsequently face high levels of misfit between EU and domestic policies. Given their low administrative capacity, these states are unable to implement EU asylum policies.
AB - This chapter gives an overview over the research on EU asylum policy harmonisation and explains why attempts to harmonise EU asylum policies to date have had little success in practice. It argues that only a group of Member States, the so-called strong regulators, has been effective in shaping EU asylum policies. These states include countries like Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden and have a long regulatory tradition in asylum policies as well as effectively working administrations that allow them to build credible expertise and strong positions for the negotiations. Weak regulators such as Italy and Greece, on the other hand, do not have any of these resources and hence remain rather passive in the negotiations. They subsequently face high levels of misfit between EU and domestic policies. Given their low administrative capacity, these states are unable to implement EU asylum policies.
KW - Politics
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U2 - 10.4324/9781315512853-30
DO - 10.4324/9781315512853-30
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AN - SCOPUS:85139698730
SN - 9781315512853
SP - 315
EP - 329
BT - The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of Migration in Europe
A2 - Weinar, Agnieszka
A2 - Bonjour, Saskia
A2 - Zhyznomirska, Lyubov
PB - Taylor and Francis Inc.
ER -