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Immigration Policy in the European Union: Still bringing up the walls for fortress Europe?
Immigration Policy in the European Union: Still bringing up the walls for fortress Europe?

Author(s): Petra Bendel
Subject(s): Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: immigration; asylum; European Union;

Summary/Abstract: Immigration and asylum policies in the European Union have entered into a new period. The author sums up the most important achievements and failures of the EU's efforts to create a common European asylum and immigration system, and she evaluates the new Hague Programme of the European Council (November 2004) in the light of the hitherto existing policies. She concludes that the European Council's new programme lags behind the more promising guidelines of its predecessor of Tampere.

  • Issue Year: 2/2005
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 21-32
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English