Ingi Iusmen
Biographic Data
| ID | 327801 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ingi Iusmen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ingi |
| FAMILY NAME | Iusmen |
| SIGNATURE | IUSMEN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6658-0667 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Politicising safety and racialised and gendered criminalisation: Political agenda-setting and the case of Albanian asylum-seekers in the UK
How the UK government has politicised asylum by categorising Albanian asylum-seekers as ‘criminals’ and Albania as a ‘safe’ country to advance an immigration deterrence agenda remains unresearched. We use agenda-setting and policy framing analytical insights to explain how and why UK government’s successful agenda-setting was underpinned by the racialised and gendered criminalisation of Albanian males and the politicisation of the safety conditio…
The 'Unknown Unknowns: Brexit, the Euss and the challenges of governing complexity
Brexit’s project of ‘re-bordering’ Britain impacted residency rights for EU nationals in the UK. Rather than focusing on how EU nationals experience the consequences of Brexit in the UK, this paper focuses on how the key policy instrument, the EUSS (EU Settlement Scheme) described as a complex system, ‘complexifies’ EU nationals’ regularisation of their residency status in the UK. Using qualitative interviews with frontline workers involved in th…
Discretion-as-Politics in Immigration Processes: The Case of Unaccompanied Migrant Children in the US
Trump administration’s anti-immigration measures affected dramatically the lives of unaccompanied migrant children (unaccompanied minors-UAMs) at the Southern border. This article investigates how and the extent to which the ‘discretionary power’ of immigration officials served the political objective of obstructing UAMs’ prospects of immigration relief. By drawing on qualitative empirical data, this article finds that border officials and the At…
What Does it Mean to Adopt a Trauma-Informed Approach to Research: Reflections on a Participatory Project With Young People Seeking Asylum in the UK
Trauma-informed (T-I) approaches to working with vulnerable people have gained popularity in practice but are rarely used in academic research and little is known about the challenges of conducting a T-I approach to participatory research. This paper reflects on our experiences of a participatory peer research project involving unaccompanied young people seeking asylum (16-25 years) during the Covid-19 pandemic. Whilst the project adhered to a ro…
EU nationals' vulnerability in the context of Brexit: The case of Polish nationals
Since the late 1990s, populist discourse based on anti-immigration sentiments has been on the rise in Britain. This phenomenon reached a peak during the EU Referendum (ER) campaign and shortly thereafter. The ER has been linked to the upsurge in racially and religiously aggravated offences recorded post-July 2016. Polish nationals, who constitute the largest group of EU nationals in the UK, were targeted by many of these incidents. It could there…
Whose Children? Protecting Unaccompanied Migrant Children in Europe: A Case of Diffused Responsibility
This paper examines the reasons behind the failure of EU and national policy interventions to protect unaccompanied migrant children’s (unaccompanied minors – uam s) rights during the refugee crisis in Europe. By drawing on policy documents and empirical data, it is argued that the deficient protection of uam s’ child rights was essentially a failure of responsibility allocation in line with the “bystander effect” analytical explanation. While th…
Non multa, sed multum’: EU Roma policy and the challenges of Roma inclusion
The Roma face widespread discrimination and marginalisation in the EU. To address these, the Commission adopted an EU Roma policy—‘EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies’ (2011)—which is implemented with the support of EU legal, financial and soft law instruments. This paper investigates the effectiveness and implications of EU Roma policy in addressing the social exclusion and discrimination faced by the Roma by assessing the poli…
A Means to an End or an End in Itself? EU Roma Policy, Human Rights and the Economic Investment Myth
The Roma face a dire socio‐economic situation and structural discrimination across Europe. To address the challenges experienced by this community, the EU adopted a specific EU Roma policy – the ‘EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies’ (2011) – which, together with EU funds, supports Member States with integration of the Roma at the national level. This article argues that the economic framing of the EU Roma policy is underpinned b…
Social Policy in the European Union
The dilemmas of pursuing ‘throughput legitimacy’ through participatory mechanisms
Under pressure to open up the 'black box' of governance, technocratic bodies are increasingly seeking to include civil society participation in the policy process. We draw on empirical cases from the European Commission and NHS England to assess the extent to which the participatory mechanisms pursued by these institutions have been successful in eliciting 'throughput legitimacy'. We show that though these mechanisms have taken very different for…
Children's Rights, Eastern Enlargement and the EU Human Rights Regime
Children’s rights, Eastern enlargement and the EU human rights regime
This text critically examines how and why Eastern enlargement has impacted on EU human rights policy. By drawing on the EU's intervention in human rights provision in Romania before 2007, it is demonstrated that the feedback effects of this intervention have led to the emergence of an EU child rights policy.
EU Leverage and Democratic Backsliding in Central and Eastern E urope: The Case of R omania
This article examines the effectiveness of E uropean U nion post‐accession leverage to contain democratic backsliding in the M ember S tates by employing as a case study the EU 's intervention concerning the impeachment of the R omanian P resident B ăsescu in J uly 2012. It is argued that a set of domestic factors, such as political miscalculations, tensions within the ruling coalition and opportunistic actions, facilitated the success of EU mate…
When Good Intentions Go Astray: Policy Framing Processes and the Europeanization of Children's Rights
Research Highlights and Abstract Empirical evidence of how Commission policy framing processes shape the Europeanization of Member States Analytical and empirical evidence of how and why Commission services develop and promote divergent policy frames in relation to children's rights Challenges faced by the EU's promotion of policy measures that have a cross-sectoral dimension Analytical and empirical evidence of how Commission services conceive t…
The EU and International Adoption from Romania
The European Union (EU) has applied an anti-inter-country adoption (ICA) policy in Romania as part of EU accession conditionality, while after 2007 the EU promoted a pro-ICA approach. Romania had to overhaul its child protection system and ban ICA before it could become an EU member, while its current legislation maintains the ban on ICA. However, since 2007 the EU has been demanding that Romanian authorities resume ICA from Romania. This article…
The European Commission as guardian angel: The Challenges of Agenda-Setting for Children's Rights
In 2006 the European Commission, under the leadership of Directorate General (DG) Justice, adopted a policy of promoting children's rights, a project that inevitably relied on the support of children's rights organizations. This article examines why the relationship between the Commission and the children's rights networks shifted from consensus to disenssus and how this has impacted on the children's rights agenda. We argue that the relationship…
Civil Society Participation and EU Children's Rights Policy
Since 2006, the European Commission has embraced the promotion of children's rights inside and outside the Union by including civil society organizations in the European Union's (EU) policy processes. This article critically examines the impact of the participation of child rights’ organizations on the policy processes regarding the EU child rights agenda. It is argued that a ‘bifurcated’ pattern of civil society engagement has emerged in relatio…
Policy entrepreneurship and Eastern enlargement: The case of EU children's rights policy
EU Leverage and Democratic Backsliding in Central and Eastern E urope: The Case of R omania
This article examines the effectiveness of E uropean U nion post‐accession leverage to contain democratic backsliding in the M ember S tates by employing as a case study the EU 's intervention concerning the impeachment of the R omanian P resident B ăsescu in J uly 2012. It is argued that a set of domestic factors, such as political miscalculations, tensions within the ruling coalition and opportunistic actions, facilitated the success of EU mate…
The dilemmas of pursuing ‘throughput legitimacy’ through participatory mechanisms
Under pressure to open up the 'black box' of governance, technocratic bodies are increasingly seeking to include civil society participation in the policy process. We draw on empirical cases from the European Commission and NHS England to assess the extent to which the participatory mechanisms pursued by these institutions have been successful in eliciting 'throughput legitimacy'. We show that though these mechanisms have taken very different for…
Policy entrepreneurship and Eastern enlargement: The case of EU children's rights policy
The European Commission as guardian angel: The Challenges of Agenda-Setting for Children's Rights
In 2006 the European Commission, under the leadership of Directorate General (DG) Justice, adopted a policy of promoting children's rights, a project that inevitably relied on the support of children's rights organizations. This article examines why the relationship between the Commission and the children's rights networks shifted from consensus to disenssus and how this has impacted on the children's rights agenda. We argue that the relationship…
EU nationals' vulnerability in the context of Brexit: The case of Polish nationals
Since the late 1990s, populist discourse based on anti-immigration sentiments has been on the rise in Britain. This phenomenon reached a peak during the EU Referendum (ER) campaign and shortly thereafter. The ER has been linked to the upsurge in racially and religiously aggravated offences recorded post-July 2016. Polish nationals, who constitute the largest group of EU nationals in the UK, were targeted by many of these incidents. It could there…
What Does it Mean to Adopt a Trauma-Informed Approach to Research: Reflections on a Participatory Project With Young People Seeking Asylum in the UK
Trauma-informed (T-I) approaches to working with vulnerable people have gained popularity in practice but are rarely used in academic research and little is known about the challenges of conducting a T-I approach to participatory research. This paper reflects on our experiences of a participatory peer research project involving unaccompanied young people seeking asylum (16-25 years) during the Covid-19 pandemic. Whilst the project adhered to a ro…
Non multa, sed multum’: EU Roma policy and the challenges of Roma inclusion
The Roma face widespread discrimination and marginalisation in the EU. To address these, the Commission adopted an EU Roma policy—‘EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies’ (2011)—which is implemented with the support of EU legal, financial and soft law instruments. This paper investigates the effectiveness and implications of EU Roma policy in addressing the social exclusion and discrimination faced by the Roma by assessing the poli…
The EU and International Adoption from Romania
The European Union (EU) has applied an anti-inter-country adoption (ICA) policy in Romania as part of EU accession conditionality, while after 2007 the EU promoted a pro-ICA approach. Romania had to overhaul its child protection system and ban ICA before it could become an EU member, while its current legislation maintains the ban on ICA. However, since 2007 the EU has been demanding that Romanian authorities resume ICA from Romania. This article…
Whose Children? Protecting Unaccompanied Migrant Children in Europe: A Case of Diffused Responsibility
This paper examines the reasons behind the failure of EU and national policy interventions to protect unaccompanied migrant children’s (unaccompanied minors – uam s) rights during the refugee crisis in Europe. By drawing on policy documents and empirical data, it is argued that the deficient protection of uam s’ child rights was essentially a failure of responsibility allocation in line with the “bystander effect” analytical explanation. While th…
Civil Society Participation and EU Children's Rights Policy
Since 2006, the European Commission has embraced the promotion of children's rights inside and outside the Union by including civil society organizations in the European Union's (EU) policy processes. This article critically examines the impact of the participation of child rights’ organizations on the policy processes regarding the EU child rights agenda. It is argued that a ‘bifurcated’ pattern of civil society engagement has emerged in relatio…
Politicising safety and racialised and gendered criminalisation: Political agenda-setting and the case of Albanian asylum-seekers in the UK
How the UK government has politicised asylum by categorising Albanian asylum-seekers as ‘criminals’ and Albania as a ‘safe’ country to advance an immigration deterrence agenda remains unresearched. We use agenda-setting and policy framing analytical insights to explain how and why UK government’s successful agenda-setting was underpinned by the racialised and gendered criminalisation of Albanian males and the politicisation of the safety conditio…
Discretion-as-Politics in Immigration Processes: The Case of Unaccompanied Migrant Children in the US
Trump administration’s anti-immigration measures affected dramatically the lives of unaccompanied migrant children (unaccompanied minors-UAMs) at the Southern border. This article investigates how and the extent to which the ‘discretionary power’ of immigration officials served the political objective of obstructing UAMs’ prospects of immigration relief. By drawing on qualitative empirical data, this article finds that border officials and the At…
A Means to an End or an End in Itself? EU Roma Policy, Human Rights and the Economic Investment Myth
The Roma face a dire socio‐economic situation and structural discrimination across Europe. To address the challenges experienced by this community, the EU adopted a specific EU Roma policy – the ‘EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies’ (2011) – which, together with EU funds, supports Member States with integration of the Roma at the national level. This article argues that the economic framing of the EU Roma policy is underpinned b…
When Good Intentions Go Astray: Policy Framing Processes and the Europeanization of Children's Rights
Research Highlights and Abstract Empirical evidence of how Commission policy framing processes shape the Europeanization of Member States Analytical and empirical evidence of how and why Commission services develop and promote divergent policy frames in relation to children's rights Challenges faced by the EU's promotion of policy measures that have a cross-sectoral dimension Analytical and empirical evidence of how Commission services conceive t…
Civil Society Participation and EU Children's Rights Policy
Since 2006, the European Commission has embraced the promotion of children's rights inside and outside the Union by including civil society organizations in the European Union's (EU) policy processes. This article critically examines the impact of the participation of child rights’ organizations on the policy processes regarding the EU child rights agenda. It is argued that a ‘bifurcated’ pattern of civil society engagement has emerged in relatio…
Policy entrepreneurship and Eastern enlargement: The case of EU children's rights policy
When Good Intentions Go Astray: Policy Framing Processes and the Europeanization of Children's Rights
Research Highlights and Abstract Empirical evidence of how Commission policy framing processes shape the Europeanization of Member States Analytical and empirical evidence of how and why Commission services develop and promote divergent policy frames in relation to children's rights Challenges faced by the EU's promotion of policy measures that have a cross-sectoral dimension Analytical and empirical evidence of how Commission services conceive t…
The EU and International Adoption from Romania
The European Union (EU) has applied an anti-inter-country adoption (ICA) policy in Romania as part of EU accession conditionality, while after 2007 the EU promoted a pro-ICA approach. Romania had to overhaul its child protection system and ban ICA before it could become an EU member, while its current legislation maintains the ban on ICA. However, since 2007 the EU has been demanding that Romanian authorities resume ICA from Romania. This article…
The European Commission as guardian angel: The Challenges of Agenda-Setting for Children's Rights
In 2006 the European Commission, under the leadership of Directorate General (DG) Justice, adopted a policy of promoting children's rights, a project that inevitably relied on the support of children's rights organizations. This article examines why the relationship between the Commission and the children's rights networks shifted from consensus to disenssus and how this has impacted on the children's rights agenda. We argue that the relationship…
Children’s rights, Eastern enlargement and the EU human rights regime
This text critically examines how and why Eastern enlargement has impacted on EU human rights policy. By drawing on the EU's intervention in human rights provision in Romania before 2007, it is demonstrated that the feedback effects of this intervention have led to the emergence of an EU child rights policy.
EU Leverage and Democratic Backsliding in Central and Eastern E urope: The Case of R omania
This article examines the effectiveness of E uropean U nion post‐accession leverage to contain democratic backsliding in the M ember S tates by employing as a case study the EU 's intervention concerning the impeachment of the R omanian P resident B ăsescu in J uly 2012. It is argued that a set of domestic factors, such as political miscalculations, tensions within the ruling coalition and opportunistic actions, facilitated the success of EU mate…
Children's Rights, Eastern Enlargement and the EU Human Rights Regime
Social Policy in the European Union
The dilemmas of pursuing ‘throughput legitimacy’ through participatory mechanisms
Under pressure to open up the 'black box' of governance, technocratic bodies are increasingly seeking to include civil society participation in the policy process. We draw on empirical cases from the European Commission and NHS England to assess the extent to which the participatory mechanisms pursued by these institutions have been successful in eliciting 'throughput legitimacy'. We show that though these mechanisms have taken very different for…
Non multa, sed multum’: EU Roma policy and the challenges of Roma inclusion
The Roma face widespread discrimination and marginalisation in the EU. To address these, the Commission adopted an EU Roma policy—‘EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies’ (2011)—which is implemented with the support of EU legal, financial and soft law instruments. This paper investigates the effectiveness and implications of EU Roma policy in addressing the social exclusion and discrimination faced by the Roma by assessing the poli…
A Means to an End or an End in Itself? EU Roma Policy, Human Rights and the Economic Investment Myth
The Roma face a dire socio‐economic situation and structural discrimination across Europe. To address the challenges experienced by this community, the EU adopted a specific EU Roma policy – the ‘EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies’ (2011) – which, together with EU funds, supports Member States with integration of the Roma at the national level. This article argues that the economic framing of the EU Roma policy is underpinned b…
Whose Children? Protecting Unaccompanied Migrant Children in Europe: A Case of Diffused Responsibility
This paper examines the reasons behind the failure of EU and national policy interventions to protect unaccompanied migrant children’s (unaccompanied minors – uam s) rights during the refugee crisis in Europe. By drawing on policy documents and empirical data, it is argued that the deficient protection of uam s’ child rights was essentially a failure of responsibility allocation in line with the “bystander effect” analytical explanation. While th…
EU nationals' vulnerability in the context of Brexit: The case of Polish nationals
Since the late 1990s, populist discourse based on anti-immigration sentiments has been on the rise in Britain. This phenomenon reached a peak during the EU Referendum (ER) campaign and shortly thereafter. The ER has been linked to the upsurge in racially and religiously aggravated offences recorded post-July 2016. Polish nationals, who constitute the largest group of EU nationals in the UK, were targeted by many of these incidents. It could there…
Discretion-as-Politics in Immigration Processes: The Case of Unaccompanied Migrant Children in the US
Trump administration’s anti-immigration measures affected dramatically the lives of unaccompanied migrant children (unaccompanied minors-UAMs) at the Southern border. This article investigates how and the extent to which the ‘discretionary power’ of immigration officials served the political objective of obstructing UAMs’ prospects of immigration relief. By drawing on qualitative empirical data, this article finds that border officials and the At…
What Does it Mean to Adopt a Trauma-Informed Approach to Research: Reflections on a Participatory Project With Young People Seeking Asylum in the UK
Trauma-informed (T-I) approaches to working with vulnerable people have gained popularity in practice but are rarely used in academic research and little is known about the challenges of conducting a T-I approach to participatory research. This paper reflects on our experiences of a participatory peer research project involving unaccompanied young people seeking asylum (16-25 years) during the Covid-19 pandemic. Whilst the project adhered to a ro…
The 'Unknown Unknowns: Brexit, the Euss and the challenges of governing complexity
Brexit’s project of ‘re-bordering’ Britain impacted residency rights for EU nationals in the UK. Rather than focusing on how EU nationals experience the consequences of Brexit in the UK, this paper focuses on how the key policy instrument, the EUSS (EU Settlement Scheme) described as a complex system, ‘complexifies’ EU nationals’ regularisation of their residency status in the UK. Using qualitative interviews with frontline workers involved in th…
Politicising safety and racialised and gendered criminalisation: Political agenda-setting and the case of Albanian asylum-seekers in the UK
How the UK government has politicised asylum by categorising Albanian asylum-seekers as ‘criminals’ and Albania as a ‘safe’ country to advance an immigration deterrence agenda remains unresearched. We use agenda-setting and policy framing analytical insights to explain how and why UK government’s successful agenda-setting was underpinned by the racialised and gendered criminalisation of Albanian males and the politicisation of the safety conditio…
Political science (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Law (12 works) · European union (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · International trade (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · European and International Law Studies (6 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (6 works)