The 'external dimension' of EU immigration and asylum policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3673949 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christina Boswell (Chatham House, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 619-638 |
| Publication date | 2003-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2346.00326 |
| OpenAlex | W1995596568 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 205 |
Since the late 1990s, the EU has sought to develop the so-called ‘external dimension’ of cooperation on immigration and asylum: attempts to manage migration through cooperation with migration sending or transit countries. However, one can discern two rather distinct concepts of the ‘external dimension’. The first involves attempts to externalize traditional tools of domestic or EU migration control; the second to prevent the causes of migration and refugee flows, through development assistance and foreign policy tools. Both are based on different assumptions about how best to influence migration flows, and will have divergent impacts on migration flows, refugee protection and relations with third countries. It therefore makes a big difference which of the two is likely to emerge as the predominant pattern of cooperation in the future. This article looks at the factors influencing the emergence of both concepts, focusing on three central determinants: the potential of such approaches to meet migration policy goals; the institutional context; and domestic political—electoral pressures. It argues that the two last factors have militated in favour of the prevalence of externalization approaches to the detriment of longer-term strategies of migration management, refugee protection and relations with third countries
Context (archaeology) · Development economics · Dimension (graph theory) · Economic geography · Economic system · Economics · Externalization · Geography · Immigration · Immigration policy · Irregular migration · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · European Criminal Justice and Data Protection · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Social Psychology
Crossing and Controlling Borders
Disposing the unwanted
EU “Mobility” Partnerships
The EU-Senegal mobility partnership
Reversed Conditionality in EU External Migration Policy
Liberty versus Security? EU Asylum Policy and the European Commission
Complete Issue
Migration and Development? An Assessment of Recent EU Pollicy Initiatives
Framing Scandinavian Conceptualizations of Irregular Migration
With what implications? An assessment of EU migration governance between Union regulation and national diversity
Desired, yet unwanted
Matryoshka Journeys
The political functions of expert knowledge
Terminology and Concepts of Immigration Policy in Europe and in France
People‐Processing Capacity
El control de la inmigración
Theorizing State Behavior in International Migrations
International Cooperation on Migration Between the EU and Third Countries
Effective Protection or Effective Combat? EU Border Control and North Africa
Migration
Counter-Mapping a Revolutionized Space of Mobility
The Governance of International Migration
Crossing and Controlling Borders
The Comparative Politics of Immigration
West African interests in (EU) migration policy. Balancing domestic priorities with external incentives
Migration, Citizenship, and the European Welfare State
Terrain of Contestation
Departing or Being Deported? Poland’s Approach towards Humanitarian Migrants
We must do it gently.’ The contested implementation of the IOM’s migration management in Morocco
The EU’s normative justifications of refugee resettlement
Overseas immigration liaison officers
Les clôtures de Ceuta et de Melilla
Penal Populations in a World in Motion
El nexo migración-desarrollo en la Agenda 2030 para el desarrollo sostenible
Securitizing migration in times of crisis
Turecki projekt utworzenia strefy bezpieczeństwa w północnej Syrii w kontekście unijno-tureckiej współpracy w zakresie migracji
Unpacking policy effects on the smuggling industry
Dealing with Migration at an Institutional Level
An Ideological Divide? Political Parties’ Discourse in Italy’s Migration Cooperation with Libya and Albania
The evolving nature of labour inspection, enforcement of employment rights and the regulatory reach of the state in Britain
Structural barriers to refugee, asylum seeker and undocumented migrant healthcare access. Perceptions of Doctors of the World caseworkers in the UK
Asylum in the Balkans
Claiming parity between unequal partners
The “Australian model” and its long-term consequences. Reflections on Europe
EU’s migration policies in the eyes of “partner” countries’ civil society actors
Rethinking immigration policy theory beyond ‘Western liberal democracies’
The impact of externalized migration governance on Turkey
Double-layer deterrence
Another nexus? Exploring narratives on the linkage between EU external migration policies and the democratization of the southern Mediterranean neighbourhood
Extraterritoriality of European borders to Turkey
Framing migration in the southern Mediterranean
Unpacking domestic preferences in the policy-‘receiving’ state
The relational dimension of externalizing border control
Crisis-Induced Leadership
Externalization through ‘awareness-raising’
Embracing complexity in ‘Southern’ migration governance
May I Come In? EU Policies to Control Migration
The Great Amplifier? Climate Change, Irregular Migration, and the Missing Links in EU Responses
Strategies to Exclude
Creative engagement with migration in Morocco
Under Construction
Regional Integration Alongside Securitisation? The Statebuilding Ambitions of Ecowas States in Migration Cooperation
Human security and the international refugee crisis
Europe’s refugee and migrant crisis
L’expertise comme récompense symbolique
Le retrait de l'Europe et la montée en puissance de la Chine en Afrique
Les effets de l'européanisation des politiques d'immigration et d'asile
Non‐governmental/civil society organisations and the European Union‐externalisation of migration management in Tunisia and Egypt
Unity Amid Barbed Wire
Women’s Right to Asylum
Bringing externalization home
Implementing EU external migration policy
Externalization of migration governance, Turkey’s migration regime, and the protection of the European Union’s external borders
External differentiated integration between the European Union and Turkey
Women Seeking Asylum
Protecting Europe and Protecting Migrants? Strategies for Managing Unauthorised Migration from Africa
Rejoinder to Grant Jordan
Chronicle of a Crisis Foretold
The EU in motion through emotions
The external dimension of Italian migration policy in the wider Mediterranean
The EU New Pact on Migration and Asylum
State Strikes Back
Policing the internal Schengen borders – managing the double bind between free movement and migration control
Postcolonial challenges to migration control
Dreaming biometrics in Niger
Back to the poorhouse? Social protection and social control of unauthorised immigrants in the shadow of the welfare state
The Conflicting Aims of the European Neighborhood Policy and its Secondary Effects
The Multilayered Migration Regime in Turkey
Frontex
Tri des migrants, racisme et solidarités aux frontières européennes
Migration Policies and Threat-based Extraversion. Analysing the Impact of European Externalisation Policies on African Polities
El-Qadim Nora, Le gouvernement asymétrique des migrations. Maroc/Union européenne
Sorted Migrants, Racism and Solidarity on the European Border
Europeanization through the Grapevine
Inside Out
The Migration–Development Nexus in EU External Relations
The External Dimension of Justice and Home Affairs
Remote Management of the European Neighbourhood Policy
Externalized Migration Governance and the Limits of Sovereignty
Migration and Citizenship
| Unique citing works | 205 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 9,32 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2026 (23) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 187 |