Visa Requirements, Carrier Sanctions, 'Safe Third Countries' and 'Readmission

The Development of an Asylum 'Buffer Zone' in Europe

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8962830
AutoresSarah Collinson (0000-0002-2947-300X, autor correspondente)
Ano1996
Volume21
Fascículo1
Páginas76-76
Data de publicação1996-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2307/622926
PMID12157817
OpenAlexW2071920223
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas34

This paper explores the development of a so-called asylum 'buffer zone' around the eastern frontiers of the west European region as a result of the Schengen, EU and EFTA member states' introduction of more restrictive asylum policies during the first half of the 1990s. Restrictive policies in western Europe are forcing central and east European states into a 'buffer role', obliging them to absorb asylum-seekers who fail to gain entry into western Europe and/or restrict asylum-seekers' access to the borders of potential 'receiving' states. In addition to examining the mechanisms by which this 'buffer zone' is developing and questioning what it might mean for future asylum trends and policies in Europe, the paper considers the wider questions raised by this development in relation to the changing geopolitical landscape of Europe, particularly in relation to the changing political and security relations between western, central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union

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