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Open Arms Behind Barred Doors

Fear, Hypocrisy and Policy Schizophrenia in the European Migration Crisis

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ID23315320
AuthorsKelly M Greenhill (0000-0001-6395-1696, Tufts University, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume22
Issue3
Pages317-332
Publication date2016-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Law Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1351-5993 • E-ISSN: 1468-0386
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/eulj.12179
OpenAlexW2464511117
LanguageEN
Citations received65

In 2015, over one million refugees and migrants arrived in Europe, laying bare the limitations of the EU's common border control and burden‐sharing systems. This article examines consequences of the EU's disjoint, schizophrenic and, at times, hypocritical responses to what has become known as the European migration crisis. It explains how unilateral, national‐level responses have made the EU as a whole particularly susceptible to a unique brand of coercive bargaining that relies on the threat (or actual generation) of mass population movements as a non‐military instrument of state‐level coercion. After outlining who employs this kind of foreign policy tool, to what ends, and under what circumstances, the article offers an illustration of this kind of coercion in action, by analyzing the March 2016 deal between the EU and Turkey. The article concludes with a discussion of broader consequences of the deal and implications both for the displaced and for the EU going forward.

Business · Coercion (linguistics) · Copycat · Development economics · Doors · Economics · European union · Hypocrisy · International trade · Member state · Member states · Political economy · Political science · Population · Refugee · Sociology · State (computer science) · Engineering · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Psychology

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Citations per year7,22
Citation span2017 - 2026 (10)
Citation velocitycurrent
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