Christof Roos
Biographic Data
| ID | 3797273 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christof Roos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christof |
| FAMILY NAME | Roos |
| SIGNATURE | ROOS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Europa-Universität Flensburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0628-4270 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The European Commission and the migration-development nexus: Accessing Resources and Increasing the Mandate
The migration-development nexus (MDN) denotes interdependencies between international migration and development. The article identifies six different causal relations between migration and development in the scientific literature and applies them to understand EU policy on the nexus. At EU level, the nexus often serves the central policy objective of limiting irregular migration to Europe, the so-called root causes approach. Yet, contrary to prio…
The Emigration Conundrum: EU Countries of Origin of Migrants Between Integration and Demarcation
Based on an analysis of parliamentary debates and party manifestos from 2000 to 2022 in three EU countries of emigration, this article responds to the following question: How emigration is discussed in the political discourse, by whom and why? The research on Poland, Portugal and Romania reveals that parties of the left and right address the societal impacts of emigration whilst simultaneously acknowledging the appreciation of citizens of EU free…
A European labour market and nationally bounded welfare states. EU emigration and challenges to social citizenship
Access to the EU's labour market and the principle of freedom of movement for persons (FMP) produced a mismatch for some countries of origin of migrants: Emigration of scale decreased the resource base for the welfare state nationally while not sharing responsibility for social citizenship with the EU level.The countries of Lithuania and Romania are insightful for studying the political consequences of this mismatch.Surprisingly, collective actor…
Bureaucratic Migration Politics in West Africa: Opportunities and Dependencies Created by EU Funding
This article delves into the role of bureaucrats and administrations in the development of national migration policies in West Africa. Based upon 87 interviews conducted in Accra, Dakar, and Brussels, it argues that the process of developing migration policies in Ghana and Senegal exhibits features of “bureaucratic politics.” West African bureaucracies have gained more national policy-making agency, due to the opportunities created by external fu…
Theorising the effects of EU emigration for origin countries: Win-Win, Dependency or Agency
Compensating for the effects of emigration. Eastern Europe and policy response to EU freedom of movement
Freedom of Movement (FoM) has paradoxical implications for Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries: it facilitates brain drain and general population loss but also enjoys continuously high appreciation from Eastern Europeans. Against this background, the article addresses the question: how do FoM-driven expectation gaps— gaps between FoM policy design and outcomes – trigger policy responses? Borrowing from institutional change theories the a…
West African interests in (EU) migration policy. Balancing domestic priorities with external incentives
Studies on EU–Africa migration cooperation often focus on the interests of the EU and its member states. But what do African states themselves seek to achieve with respect to migration policy? This article presents an in-depth look at Ghana and Senegal, two stable West African democracies, and assesses which types of migration policies they support, and why. We suggest that a distinction ought to be made between West African policymakers’ more do…
The conditionality of EU freedom of movement: Normative change in the discourse of EU institutions
Freedom of movement (FOM) in the European Union (EU) has become a highly salient issue in political and public debates. Most of the literature on FOM is heavily focused on the judiciary interpretation of this EU right, or on conflicting attitudes towards FOM within the national arena. However, the EU and its institutions as political actors that define and shape the content and meaning of FOM are largely absent from this literature. If mentioned,…
EU Freedoms at a Critical Juncture? The Positions of Member State Governments on EU Person and Services Mobility
Brexit has questioned the paradigm of ever expanding EU freedoms for persons and workers in the EU. Communitarian claims in favour of national sovereignty and social protectionism succeeded in mobilizing voters in the UK for leaving the EU. The study examines how liberal values underpinning the freedom of movement and freedom of services were contested by the governments of France, Germany, and the UK in the early 2010s. The findings of the compa…
The (de-) politicization of EU freedom of movement: Political parties, opportunities, and policy framing in Germany and the UK
Opposition or consensus in the Justice and Home Affairs Council? The how and why of increasing member state contestation over EU policy
The article fills a research gap on voting behaviour in the Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Council by presenting an analysis of 12 years of voting records (2004 to 2016). Consensus, said to be the default option for EU decision-making, was also dominant in the JHA field. However, the research observes a tremendous increase in ‘no’ votes and abstentions during the post-Lisbon period. In explaining contestation, a qualitative analysis of interview …
The global economic crisis as a critical juncture? The crisis’s impact on migration movements and policies in Europe and the U.S
The current global economic crisis has resulted in the strongest recession in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries since the Great Depression in the early 1930s and the 1970s oil shocks. This special issue sets out to explore how the most recent economic crisis impacted immigration and immigration-related policy in the United States of America and in European countries that are part of the OECD. The crisis of…
Circumventing deadlock through venue-shopping: Why there is more than just talk in US immigration politics in times of economic crisis
This article addresses the question of how the financial and economic crisis that hit the USA in the late 2000s impacted immigration policies. We find that the crisis has not significantly changed dynamics. Instead, it has highlighted and aggravated persisting trends. Drawing on Kingdon’s multiple streams model and combining it with the notion of two-level games, we find that while the policy stream and the problem stream would call for both rest…
EU politics on labour migration: Inclusion versus admission
Two European Union (EU) directives on labour migration were adopted in 2009 and 2011. The EU scheme to attract highly qualified migrants, the so-called ‘Blue Card’ directive of 2009, allows member states broad flexibility in implementation. In contrast, the directive on a single permit for migrant workers and their rights of 2011 is far less flexible. It does significantly reduce the scope for derogations at a national level to a minimum. How can…
Liberal cosmopolitan norms and the border: Local actors’ critique of the governance of global processes
Liberal cosmopolitanism provides a set of norms that calls for the openness of borders. Freedom of movement, equality in opportunity and hospitality define a liberal framework for a state’s ruling over the access of foreigners to the territory. However, in states’ execution of border and immigration control these normative ideals seem not to apply. Accounts of border and immigration policy and discourse document a bias towards exclusion, restrict…
How to Overcome Deadlock in EU Immigration Politics
Immigration policy is a very unlikely case for EU integration. EU policy‐making is constrained by member states' sovereignty claims and interest heterogeneity. Still, tentative integration towards EU conditions of entry and residence for some immigrant categories can be observed. By using the example of the skilled labour migration directive, the article explains how deadlock in policy‐making was overcome. It explores the factors that led to agre…
Liberal States and the Freedom of Movement: Selective Borders, Unequal Mobility
State borders regulate cross-border mobility and determine peoples' chances to travel, work, and study across the globe. This book looks at how global mobility is defined by borders in 2011 in compari
"A “border for the people"? Narratives on changing eastern borders in Finland and Austria
The fall of the Iron Curtain and the border regime of the European Union have changed perceptions of borders. This study compares border narratives on two Eastern borders in Austria and Finland in order to find out how such narratives picture the changing functions of the borders. The qualitative data gathered from interviews with border policy actors in both countries reveals that the shared narrative of the Iron Curtain is in the process of bei…
The global economic crisis as a critical juncture? The crisis’s impact on migration movements and policies in Europe and the U.S
The current global economic crisis has resulted in the strongest recession in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries since the Great Depression in the early 1930s and the 1970s oil shocks. This special issue sets out to explore how the most recent economic crisis impacted immigration and immigration-related policy in the United States of America and in European countries that are part of the OECD. The crisis of…
Compensating for the effects of emigration. Eastern Europe and policy response to EU freedom of movement
Freedom of Movement (FoM) has paradoxical implications for Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries: it facilitates brain drain and general population loss but also enjoys continuously high appreciation from Eastern Europeans. Against this background, the article addresses the question: how do FoM-driven expectation gaps— gaps between FoM policy design and outcomes – trigger policy responses? Borrowing from institutional change theories the a…
The (de-) politicization of EU freedom of movement: Political parties, opportunities, and policy framing in Germany and the UK
The conditionality of EU freedom of movement: Normative change in the discourse of EU institutions
Freedom of movement (FOM) in the European Union (EU) has become a highly salient issue in political and public debates. Most of the literature on FOM is heavily focused on the judiciary interpretation of this EU right, or on conflicting attitudes towards FOM within the national arena. However, the EU and its institutions as political actors that define and shape the content and meaning of FOM are largely absent from this literature. If mentioned,…
Opposition or consensus in the Justice and Home Affairs Council? The how and why of increasing member state contestation over EU policy
The article fills a research gap on voting behaviour in the Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Council by presenting an analysis of 12 years of voting records (2004 to 2016). Consensus, said to be the default option for EU decision-making, was also dominant in the JHA field. However, the research observes a tremendous increase in ‘no’ votes and abstentions during the post-Lisbon period. In explaining contestation, a qualitative analysis of interview …
Bureaucratic Migration Politics in West Africa: Opportunities and Dependencies Created by EU Funding
This article delves into the role of bureaucrats and administrations in the development of national migration policies in West Africa. Based upon 87 interviews conducted in Accra, Dakar, and Brussels, it argues that the process of developing migration policies in Ghana and Senegal exhibits features of “bureaucratic politics.” West African bureaucracies have gained more national policy-making agency, due to the opportunities created by external fu…
Circumventing deadlock through venue-shopping: Why there is more than just talk in US immigration politics in times of economic crisis
This article addresses the question of how the financial and economic crisis that hit the USA in the late 2000s impacted immigration policies. We find that the crisis has not significantly changed dynamics. Instead, it has highlighted and aggravated persisting trends. Drawing on Kingdon’s multiple streams model and combining it with the notion of two-level games, we find that while the policy stream and the problem stream would call for both rest…
The Emigration Conundrum: EU Countries of Origin of Migrants Between Integration and Demarcation
Based on an analysis of parliamentary debates and party manifestos from 2000 to 2022 in three EU countries of emigration, this article responds to the following question: How emigration is discussed in the political discourse, by whom and why? The research on Poland, Portugal and Romania reveals that parties of the left and right address the societal impacts of emigration whilst simultaneously acknowledging the appreciation of citizens of EU free…
A European labour market and nationally bounded welfare states. EU emigration and challenges to social citizenship
Access to the EU's labour market and the principle of freedom of movement for persons (FMP) produced a mismatch for some countries of origin of migrants: Emigration of scale decreased the resource base for the welfare state nationally while not sharing responsibility for social citizenship with the EU level.The countries of Lithuania and Romania are insightful for studying the political consequences of this mismatch.Surprisingly, collective actor…
Liberal cosmopolitan norms and the border: Local actors’ critique of the governance of global processes
Liberal cosmopolitanism provides a set of norms that calls for the openness of borders. Freedom of movement, equality in opportunity and hospitality define a liberal framework for a state’s ruling over the access of foreigners to the territory. However, in states’ execution of border and immigration control these normative ideals seem not to apply. Accounts of border and immigration policy and discourse document a bias towards exclusion, restrict…
How to Overcome Deadlock in EU Immigration Politics
Immigration policy is a very unlikely case for EU integration. EU policy‐making is constrained by member states' sovereignty claims and interest heterogeneity. Still, tentative integration towards EU conditions of entry and residence for some immigrant categories can be observed. By using the example of the skilled labour migration directive, the article explains how deadlock in policy‐making was overcome. It explores the factors that led to agre…
Theorising the effects of EU emigration for origin countries: Win-Win, Dependency or Agency
EU Freedoms at a Critical Juncture? The Positions of Member State Governments on EU Person and Services Mobility
Brexit has questioned the paradigm of ever expanding EU freedoms for persons and workers in the EU. Communitarian claims in favour of national sovereignty and social protectionism succeeded in mobilizing voters in the UK for leaving the EU. The study examines how liberal values underpinning the freedom of movement and freedom of services were contested by the governments of France, Germany, and the UK in the early 2010s. The findings of the compa…
EU politics on labour migration: Inclusion versus admission
Two European Union (EU) directives on labour migration were adopted in 2009 and 2011. The EU scheme to attract highly qualified migrants, the so-called ‘Blue Card’ directive of 2009, allows member states broad flexibility in implementation. In contrast, the directive on a single permit for migrant workers and their rights of 2011 is far less flexible. It does significantly reduce the scope for derogations at a national level to a minimum. How can…
"A “border for the people"? Narratives on changing eastern borders in Finland and Austria
The fall of the Iron Curtain and the border regime of the European Union have changed perceptions of borders. This study compares border narratives on two Eastern borders in Austria and Finland in order to find out how such narratives picture the changing functions of the borders. The qualitative data gathered from interviews with border policy actors in both countries reveals that the shared narrative of the Iron Curtain is in the process of bei…
Liberal States and the Freedom of Movement: Selective Borders, Unequal Mobility
State borders regulate cross-border mobility and determine peoples' chances to travel, work, and study across the globe. This book looks at how global mobility is defined by borders in 2011 in compari
How to Overcome Deadlock in EU Immigration Politics
Immigration policy is a very unlikely case for EU integration. EU policy‐making is constrained by member states' sovereignty claims and interest heterogeneity. Still, tentative integration towards EU conditions of entry and residence for some immigrant categories can be observed. By using the example of the skilled labour migration directive, the article explains how deadlock in policy‐making was overcome. It explores the factors that led to agre…
EU politics on labour migration: Inclusion versus admission
Two European Union (EU) directives on labour migration were adopted in 2009 and 2011. The EU scheme to attract highly qualified migrants, the so-called ‘Blue Card’ directive of 2009, allows member states broad flexibility in implementation. In contrast, the directive on a single permit for migrant workers and their rights of 2011 is far less flexible. It does significantly reduce the scope for derogations at a national level to a minimum. How can…
Liberal cosmopolitan norms and the border: Local actors’ critique of the governance of global processes
Liberal cosmopolitanism provides a set of norms that calls for the openness of borders. Freedom of movement, equality in opportunity and hospitality define a liberal framework for a state’s ruling over the access of foreigners to the territory. However, in states’ execution of border and immigration control these normative ideals seem not to apply. Accounts of border and immigration policy and discourse document a bias towards exclusion, restrict…
The global economic crisis as a critical juncture? The crisis’s impact on migration movements and policies in Europe and the U.S
The current global economic crisis has resulted in the strongest recession in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries since the Great Depression in the early 1930s and the 1970s oil shocks. This special issue sets out to explore how the most recent economic crisis impacted immigration and immigration-related policy in the United States of America and in European countries that are part of the OECD. The crisis of…
Circumventing deadlock through venue-shopping: Why there is more than just talk in US immigration politics in times of economic crisis
This article addresses the question of how the financial and economic crisis that hit the USA in the late 2000s impacted immigration policies. We find that the crisis has not significantly changed dynamics. Instead, it has highlighted and aggravated persisting trends. Drawing on Kingdon’s multiple streams model and combining it with the notion of two-level games, we find that while the policy stream and the problem stream would call for both rest…
EU Freedoms at a Critical Juncture? The Positions of Member State Governments on EU Person and Services Mobility
Brexit has questioned the paradigm of ever expanding EU freedoms for persons and workers in the EU. Communitarian claims in favour of national sovereignty and social protectionism succeeded in mobilizing voters in the UK for leaving the EU. The study examines how liberal values underpinning the freedom of movement and freedom of services were contested by the governments of France, Germany, and the UK in the early 2010s. The findings of the compa…
The (de-) politicization of EU freedom of movement: Political parties, opportunities, and policy framing in Germany and the UK
Opposition or consensus in the Justice and Home Affairs Council? The how and why of increasing member state contestation over EU policy
The article fills a research gap on voting behaviour in the Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Council by presenting an analysis of 12 years of voting records (2004 to 2016). Consensus, said to be the default option for EU decision-making, was also dominant in the JHA field. However, the research observes a tremendous increase in ‘no’ votes and abstentions during the post-Lisbon period. In explaining contestation, a qualitative analysis of interview …
The conditionality of EU freedom of movement: Normative change in the discourse of EU institutions
Freedom of movement (FOM) in the European Union (EU) has become a highly salient issue in political and public debates. Most of the literature on FOM is heavily focused on the judiciary interpretation of this EU right, or on conflicting attitudes towards FOM within the national arena. However, the EU and its institutions as political actors that define and shape the content and meaning of FOM are largely absent from this literature. If mentioned,…
West African interests in (EU) migration policy. Balancing domestic priorities with external incentives
Studies on EU–Africa migration cooperation often focus on the interests of the EU and its member states. But what do African states themselves seek to achieve with respect to migration policy? This article presents an in-depth look at Ghana and Senegal, two stable West African democracies, and assesses which types of migration policies they support, and why. We suggest that a distinction ought to be made between West African policymakers’ more do…
Compensating for the effects of emigration. Eastern Europe and policy response to EU freedom of movement
Freedom of Movement (FoM) has paradoxical implications for Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries: it facilitates brain drain and general population loss but also enjoys continuously high appreciation from Eastern Europeans. Against this background, the article addresses the question: how do FoM-driven expectation gaps— gaps between FoM policy design and outcomes – trigger policy responses? Borrowing from institutional change theories the a…
A European labour market and nationally bounded welfare states. EU emigration and challenges to social citizenship
Access to the EU's labour market and the principle of freedom of movement for persons (FMP) produced a mismatch for some countries of origin of migrants: Emigration of scale decreased the resource base for the welfare state nationally while not sharing responsibility for social citizenship with the EU level.The countries of Lithuania and Romania are insightful for studying the political consequences of this mismatch.Surprisingly, collective actor…
Bureaucratic Migration Politics in West Africa: Opportunities and Dependencies Created by EU Funding
This article delves into the role of bureaucrats and administrations in the development of national migration policies in West Africa. Based upon 87 interviews conducted in Accra, Dakar, and Brussels, it argues that the process of developing migration policies in Ghana and Senegal exhibits features of “bureaucratic politics.” West African bureaucracies have gained more national policy-making agency, due to the opportunities created by external fu…
Theorising the effects of EU emigration for origin countries: Win-Win, Dependency or Agency
The European Commission and the migration-development nexus: Accessing Resources and Increasing the Mandate
The migration-development nexus (MDN) denotes interdependencies between international migration and development. The article identifies six different causal relations between migration and development in the scientific literature and applies them to understand EU policy on the nexus. At EU level, the nexus often serves the central policy objective of limiting irregular migration to Europe, the so-called root causes approach. Yet, contrary to prio…
The Emigration Conundrum: EU Countries of Origin of Migrants Between Integration and Demarcation
Based on an analysis of parliamentary debates and party manifestos from 2000 to 2022 in three EU countries of emigration, this article responds to the following question: How emigration is discussed in the political discourse, by whom and why? The research on Poland, Portugal and Romania reveals that parties of the left and right address the societal impacts of emigration whilst simultaneously acknowledging the appreciation of citizens of EU free…
Political science (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Economics (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (11 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (11 works) · Political economy (11 works) · European union (9 works) · Politics (9 works)