Florian Trauner
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1247148 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Florian Trauner |
| PRENOMES | Florian |
| SOBRENOME | Trauner |
| ASSINATURA | TRAUNER F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5044-6818 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 358 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Towards more fairness among states
Solidarity and fairness in allocating refugee protection responsibilities is a central challenge in European asylum governance. The Dublin Regulation, assigning responsibility primarily to first countries of entry, has been criticised for exacerbating unequal burdens to member states. Yet systematic evidence on how Dublin transfers affect the distribution of responsibilities remains scarce. This article analyses Dublin statistics from 2008 to 202…
The European Commission’s response to national emergency regimes within the EU’s asylum policy
National emergency laws restricting the entry of asylum seekers have become increasingly common across the European Union. This article investigates how the European Commission responds to such emergency regimes that derogate from EU asylum and migration law, and which combination of factors explains the variation in its responses. Using a diverse case study design covering Austria, Hungary, and Poland since 2016, the study traces how the Commiss…
The role of EU ‐promoted versus local narratives in migratory decision‐making in the Gambia
The EU tries to dissuade potential migrants from coming to Europe irregularly. However, can EU‐promoted narratives compete with local ones and actually influence migratory decision‐making? This article investigates how local migration narratives of potential migrants interrelate with the narratives put forward in EU‐funded migration information campaigns. Building upon focus groups and interviews conducted in the Gambia, the article demonstrates …
Democracy Matters (To Some Extent)
This article analyses whether the European Union returns more irregular migrants to democratic or autocratic states. It establishes the EU’s return rates with the whole world over a period of twelve years (2008–2019) and connects it to non-EU countries’ democratic credentials. Democracy mattered to some extent in the sense that the EU had generally fewer return orders and higher return rates with democratic states. Yet, a macro perspective indica…
Bureaucratic Migration Politics in West Africa
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…
The impact of the Russian war against Ukraine on the reform of the common European asylum system
History and International Studies 1900-present
It's not about the information, it's about the situation
This article analyses the narratives of young people in the Gambia and of Afghan migrants in Turkey on the themes of migration and Europe as a place of destination. Based on extensive focus group and interview data, we show that these narratives (1) have a high degree of similarities across different contexts and (2) appear incongruent with, and largely unaffected by, the EU's messages of deterrence in information campaigns. We explain this misal…
Migration information campaigns
Information campaigns aim at discouraging potential migrants from leaving their countries irregularly. This article discusses how to analyse the impact of such campaigns by identifying different research lines in the literature. The impact of migration information campaigns may be explored by, firstly, focusing on transnational migratory data and inter‐state relations (the macro‐level); secondly, by investigating their impact on narratives within…
The European and national parliaments in the area of freedom, security and justice
International audience
The Great Covid Paper Wall
In reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Chinese authorities have installed visa restrictions and strict quarantine rules to prevent foreigners from spreading new infections to the country. This has disrupted a trend of increasing European Union (EU)-China travel and socio-economic exchanges. EU citizens living in or travelling to China have had to deal with the consequences of Beijing’s so-called Zero-Covid strategy. In view of quasi-closed bor…
Hungary’s renationalisation strategies
De quelle manière un gouvernement populiste de droite radicale tel que le gouvernement hongrois sous Viktor Orbán peut-il limiter l’influence de l’UE dans le domaine des migrations ? En conceptualisant différentes « stratégies de renationalisation », l’article montre comment le gouvernement hongrois a réussi à renforcer le contrôle national sur les capacités de migration et la prise de décision. En s'opposant au droit de l'UE et en utilisant larg…
Hungary’s renationalisation strategies
From Trevi to Europol
This article assesses Germany's role in the integration of EU police cooperation as a 'core state power' from its beginnings in the 1970s up to today. Relying on a mix of methods including archival research and expert interviews, it demonstrates how Germany has contributed to expanding the scope of EU policing and institutionalising the European Police Office Europol. Between kick-starting initial cooperation and the creation of Europol, German p…
The EU's ‘return rate’ with third countries
The signing of EU readmission agreements is commonly believed to lead to a higher rate of returns of migrants found ineligible to stay in Europe. By analysing the EU’s ‘return rate’ with the whole world over a period of 11 years (2008–18), this article argues that (formal or informal) EU readmission arrangements may have less impact than widely assumed. They often lead only to temporary increases in the return rates of third countries – if at all…
Reforming me softly – how soft law has changed EU return policy since the migration crisis
In the wake of the 2015/2016 migration crisis, EU policy-makers have urged returning more irregular migrants. In order to achieve this, the EU has adopted a series of non-binding documents for European administrations (such as the EU Return Handbook) and agreed on informal return deals with countries of migrants' origin including Afghanistan. This article argues that the EU's shift towards soft law has not altered the EU's return policy in a prof…
Migration, equality and racisms
Migration, equality and racism
This book is the result of the active engagement of many people.First of all, the editors would like to thank all the authors for their enthusiasm and energetic collaboration on this project.From the first collective brainstorming exercise until the very end of the process, their constructive and critical feedback has improved the book and compelled us to constantly reexamine our own ideas.We also thank the VUB's POINcaré think
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…
Asylum policy
How do Member States Return Unwanted Migrants? The Strategic (non‐)use of ‘Europe’ during the Migration Crisis
This article analyzes how Member States have used the opportunities and avoided the constraints of the EU's multilevel governance architecture to return unwanted migrants. Drawing on sociological approaches to the EU and a broad understanding of return policies, we investigate the ways in which the northern Member States, notably Germany and Austria, have increasingly relied upon the EU's operational and financial resources to achieve their goal …
Routledge Handbook of Justice and Home Affairs Research
Asylum policy
What has been the impact of the European Union (EU)’s multifaceted crisis on asylum law and policy development? The article argues that the EU has sought to safeguard the core of its asylum policy by adding new layers of policy instruments in response to both the financial and economic crisis post-2008 and the refugee crisis starting in 2015. These instruments have had the overarching aim of providing EU member states facing high migratory pressu…
The Communitarization of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
This article proposes an explanation as to why institutional change – understood as more competences for the European Union's supranational institutions – has rarely led to policy change in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ). It draws attention to the constraints that newly empowered actors have faced in the wake of introducing the co‐decision procedure. If the key principles of a given AFSJ sub‐policy – its ‘policy core’ – were def…
Policy Change in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Do supranational EU institutions make a difference? EU asylum law before and after ‘communitarization
This article examines whether the empowerment of the European Union's (EU) supranational institutions has had an impact on the development of EU asylum. By systematically investigating EU asylum law before and after 'communitarization', it argues that its 'policy core' has maintained a high degree of continuity. An advocacy coalition under the leadership of the interior ministers managed to co-opt pivotal actors in the newly empowered European Co…
Asylum policy
What has been the impact of the European Union (EU)’s multifaceted crisis on asylum law and policy development? The article argues that the EU has sought to safeguard the core of its asylum policy by adding new layers of policy instruments in response to both the financial and economic crisis post-2008 and the refugee crisis starting in 2015. These instruments have had the overarching aim of providing EU member states facing high migratory pressu…
How do Member States Return Unwanted Migrants? The Strategic (non‐)use of ‘Europe’ during the Migration Crisis
This article analyzes how Member States have used the opportunities and avoided the constraints of the EU's multilevel governance architecture to return unwanted migrants. Drawing on sociological approaches to the EU and a broad understanding of return policies, we investigate the ways in which the northern Member States, notably Germany and Austria, have increasingly relied upon the EU's operational and financial resources to achieve their goal …
Do supranational EU institutions make a difference? EU asylum law before and after ‘communitarization
This article examines whether the empowerment of the European Union's (EU) supranational institutions has had an impact on the development of EU asylum. By systematically investigating EU asylum law before and after 'communitarization', it argues that its 'policy core' has maintained a high degree of continuity. An advocacy coalition under the leadership of the interior ministers managed to co-opt pivotal actors in the newly empowered European Co…
The Communitarization of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
This article proposes an explanation as to why institutional change – understood as more competences for the European Union's supranational institutions – has rarely led to policy change in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ). It draws attention to the constraints that newly empowered actors have faced in the wake of introducing the co‐decision procedure. If the key principles of a given AFSJ sub‐policy – its ‘policy core’ – were def…
From membership conditionality to policy conditionality
In view of the uncertainty about the final outcome of the current enlargement process, how effective is the EU's acquis conditionality in South Eastern Europe? By elaborating on the example of justice and home affairs, the article argues that the EU's external leverage has remained strong, as the EU has developed additional ways to render its conditionality approach credible. Although the hurdles for entering the EU have been raised, Croatia's co…
The EU's ‘return rate’ with third countries
The signing of EU readmission agreements is commonly believed to lead to a higher rate of returns of migrants found ineligible to stay in Europe. By analysing the EU’s ‘return rate’ with the whole world over a period of 11 years (2008–18), this article argues that (formal or informal) EU readmission arrangements may have less impact than widely assumed. They often lead only to temporary increases in the return rates of third countries – if at all…
Reforming me softly – how soft law has changed EU return policy since the migration crisis
In the wake of the 2015/2016 migration crisis, EU policy-makers have urged returning more irregular migrants. In order to achieve this, the EU has adopted a series of non-binding documents for European administrations (such as the EU Return Handbook) and agreed on informal return deals with countries of migrants' origin including Afghanistan. This article argues that the EU's shift towards soft law has not altered the EU's return policy in a prof…
The Impact of EU Migration Policies on African Countries
This article elaborates on the impact of EU migration policies on African countries, taking Mali as a case study. Building upon fieldwork in the country, it argues that enhanced European involvement ( EU and individual member states) has caused Mali to develop a more control‐oriented dimension to its migration policy and to strengthen its links with European development actors and the Malian diaspora. While these reverberations of EU policies can…
It's not about the information, it's about the situation
This article analyses the narratives of young people in the Gambia and of Afghan migrants in Turkey on the themes of migration and Europe as a place of destination. Based on extensive focus group and interview data, we show that these narratives (1) have a high degree of similarities across different contexts and (2) appear incongruent with, and largely unaffected by, the EU's messages of deterrence in information campaigns. We explain this misal…
The European Parliament and Agency Control in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Despite aptly capturing the EU as a multi-principal model, the principal–agent literature has neglected the question of under what conditions a particular institution may become a principal. This article proposes a research framework that defines a principal not only through its involvement in the legal procedure establishing the agent, but also through its impact on the day-to-day work and institutional development of this agent. Using the case …
Bureaucratic Migration Politics in West Africa
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…
Deconstructing the EU’s Routes of Influence in Justice and Home Affairs in the Western Balkans
What routes of influence could the European Union use to bring the Western Balkan states closer to EU standards in Justice and Home Affairs (JHA)? The paper argues that although the mechanisms of Europeanization identified for the Central and Eastern European countries are useful for understanding the EU’s external influence, they are not sufficient for fully deconstructing the avenues of external leverage. The key to understanding the Europeaniz…
Migration information campaigns
Information campaigns aim at discouraging potential migrants from leaving their countries irregularly. This article discusses how to analyse the impact of such campaigns by identifying different research lines in the literature. The impact of migration information campaigns may be explored by, firstly, focusing on transnational migratory data and inter‐state relations (the macro‐level); secondly, by investigating their impact on narratives within…
Creeping EU Membership in South‐east Europe
The countries of the Western Balkans have all been subsumed under a pre‐accession framework that is comparable to previous enlargement rounds, but with two main differences: the EU has thus far refrained from naming a timetable for eventual membership and supports flexible forms of integration in different policy fields. With only a loose prospect of membership, how strong is the EU’s influence in the Western Balkans? With our empirical examples,…
The European and national parliaments in the area of freedom, security and justice
International audience
From Trevi to Europol
This article assesses Germany's role in the integration of EU police cooperation as a 'core state power' from its beginnings in the 1970s up to today. Relying on a mix of methods including archival research and expert interviews, it demonstrates how Germany has contributed to expanding the scope of EU policing and institutionalising the European Police Office Europol. Between kick-starting initial cooperation and the creation of Europol, German p…
The impact of the Russian war against Ukraine on the reform of the common European asylum system
History and International Studies 1900-present
The role of EU ‐promoted versus local narratives in migratory decision‐making in the Gambia
The EU tries to dissuade potential migrants from coming to Europe irregularly. However, can EU‐promoted narratives compete with local ones and actually influence migratory decision‐making? This article investigates how local migration narratives of potential migrants interrelate with the narratives put forward in EU‐funded migration information campaigns. Building upon focus groups and interviews conducted in the Gambia, the article demonstrates …
Democracy Matters (To Some Extent)
This article analyses whether the European Union returns more irregular migrants to democratic or autocratic states. It establishes the EU’s return rates with the whole world over a period of twelve years (2008–2019) and connects it to non-EU countries’ democratic credentials. Democracy mattered to some extent in the sense that the EU had generally fewer return orders and higher return rates with democratic states. Yet, a macro perspective indica…
Deconstructing the EU’s Routes of Influence in Justice and Home Affairs in the Western Balkans
What routes of influence could the European Union use to bring the Western Balkan states closer to EU standards in Justice and Home Affairs (JHA)? The paper argues that although the mechanisms of Europeanization identified for the Central and Eastern European countries are useful for understanding the EU’s external influence, they are not sufficient for fully deconstructing the avenues of external leverage. The key to understanding the Europeaniz…
Creeping EU Membership in South‐east Europe
The countries of the Western Balkans have all been subsumed under a pre‐accession framework that is comparable to previous enlargement rounds, but with two main differences: the EU has thus far refrained from naming a timetable for eventual membership and supports flexible forms of integration in different policy fields. With only a loose prospect of membership, how strong is the EU’s influence in the Western Balkans? With our empirical examples,…
From membership conditionality to policy conditionality
In view of the uncertainty about the final outcome of the current enlargement process, how effective is the EU's acquis conditionality in South Eastern Europe? By elaborating on the example of justice and home affairs, the article argues that the EU's external leverage has remained strong, as the EU has developed additional ways to render its conditionality approach credible. Although the hurdles for entering the EU have been raised, Croatia's co…
The European Parliament and Agency Control in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Despite aptly capturing the EU as a multi-principal model, the principal–agent literature has neglected the question of under what conditions a particular institution may become a principal. This article proposes a research framework that defines a principal not only through its involvement in the legal procedure establishing the agent, but also through its impact on the day-to-day work and institutional development of this agent. Using the case …
The Impact of EU Migration Policies on African Countries
This article elaborates on the impact of EU migration policies on African countries, taking Mali as a case study. Building upon fieldwork in the country, it argues that enhanced European involvement ( EU and individual member states) has caused Mali to develop a more control‐oriented dimension to its migration policy and to strengthen its links with European development actors and the Malian diaspora. While these reverberations of EU policies can…
Policy Change in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Do supranational EU institutions make a difference? EU asylum law before and after ‘communitarization
This article examines whether the empowerment of the European Union's (EU) supranational institutions has had an impact on the development of EU asylum. By systematically investigating EU asylum law before and after 'communitarization', it argues that its 'policy core' has maintained a high degree of continuity. An advocacy coalition under the leadership of the interior ministers managed to co-opt pivotal actors in the newly empowered European Co…
Asylum policy
What has been the impact of the European Union (EU)’s multifaceted crisis on asylum law and policy development? The article argues that the EU has sought to safeguard the core of its asylum policy by adding new layers of policy instruments in response to both the financial and economic crisis post-2008 and the refugee crisis starting in 2015. These instruments have had the overarching aim of providing EU member states facing high migratory pressu…
The Communitarization of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
This article proposes an explanation as to why institutional change – understood as more competences for the European Union's supranational institutions – has rarely led to policy change in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ). It draws attention to the constraints that newly empowered actors have faced in the wake of introducing the co‐decision procedure. If the key principles of a given AFSJ sub‐policy – its ‘policy core’ – were def…
Routledge Handbook of Justice and Home Affairs Research
Asylum policy
How do Member States Return Unwanted Migrants? The Strategic (non‐)use of ‘Europe’ during the Migration Crisis
This article analyzes how Member States have used the opportunities and avoided the constraints of the EU's multilevel governance architecture to return unwanted migrants. Drawing on sociological approaches to the EU and a broad understanding of return policies, we investigate the ways in which the northern Member States, notably Germany and Austria, have increasingly relied upon the EU's operational and financial resources to achieve their goal …
Migration, equality and racisms
Migration, equality and racism
This book is the result of the active engagement of many people.First of all, the editors would like to thank all the authors for their enthusiasm and energetic collaboration on this project.From the first collective brainstorming exercise until the very end of the process, their constructive and critical feedback has improved the book and compelled us to constantly reexamine our own ideas.We also thank the VUB's POINcaré think
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…
Hungary’s renationalisation strategies
De quelle manière un gouvernement populiste de droite radicale tel que le gouvernement hongrois sous Viktor Orbán peut-il limiter l’influence de l’UE dans le domaine des migrations ? En conceptualisant différentes « stratégies de renationalisation », l’article montre comment le gouvernement hongrois a réussi à renforcer le contrôle national sur les capacités de migration et la prise de décision. En s'opposant au droit de l'UE et en utilisant larg…
Hungary’s renationalisation strategies
From Trevi to Europol
This article assesses Germany's role in the integration of EU police cooperation as a 'core state power' from its beginnings in the 1970s up to today. Relying on a mix of methods including archival research and expert interviews, it demonstrates how Germany has contributed to expanding the scope of EU policing and institutionalising the European Police Office Europol. Between kick-starting initial cooperation and the creation of Europol, German p…
The EU's ‘return rate’ with third countries
The signing of EU readmission agreements is commonly believed to lead to a higher rate of returns of migrants found ineligible to stay in Europe. By analysing the EU’s ‘return rate’ with the whole world over a period of 11 years (2008–18), this article argues that (formal or informal) EU readmission arrangements may have less impact than widely assumed. They often lead only to temporary increases in the return rates of third countries – if at all…
Reforming me softly – how soft law has changed EU return policy since the migration crisis
In the wake of the 2015/2016 migration crisis, EU policy-makers have urged returning more irregular migrants. In order to achieve this, the EU has adopted a series of non-binding documents for European administrations (such as the EU Return Handbook) and agreed on informal return deals with countries of migrants' origin including Afghanistan. This article argues that the EU's shift towards soft law has not altered the EU's return policy in a prof…
The Great Covid Paper Wall
In reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Chinese authorities have installed visa restrictions and strict quarantine rules to prevent foreigners from spreading new infections to the country. This has disrupted a trend of increasing European Union (EU)-China travel and socio-economic exchanges. EU citizens living in or travelling to China have had to deal with the consequences of Beijing’s so-called Zero-Covid strategy. In view of quasi-closed bor…
Migration information campaigns
Information campaigns aim at discouraging potential migrants from leaving their countries irregularly. This article discusses how to analyse the impact of such campaigns by identifying different research lines in the literature. The impact of migration information campaigns may be explored by, firstly, focusing on transnational migratory data and inter‐state relations (the macro‐level); secondly, by investigating their impact on narratives within…
The European and national parliaments in the area of freedom, security and justice
International audience
Bureaucratic Migration Politics in West Africa
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…
The impact of the Russian war against Ukraine on the reform of the common European asylum system
History and International Studies 1900-present
Political science (25 obras) · Economics (18 obras) · Law (16 obras) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (16 obras) · European Union Policy and Governance (14 obras) · Sociology (14 obras) · Law (13 obras) · European union (12 obras) · Politics (12 obras) · Political economy (11 obras)