Getting the best of both worlds? Britain, the EU and migration policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3700610 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Geddes (0000-0002-4870-1696, Migration Policy Institute, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 723-740 |
| Publication date | 2005-07-01 |
| 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/j.1468-2346.2005.00481.x |
| OpenAlex | W2080680786 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 4 |
In perhaps unexpected ways Britain has become quite closely linked to key aspects of EU migration and asylum policy. This could be a rather surprising outcome given that the UK is outside Schengen, opted out of the free movement, asylum and migration provisions of the Amsterdam Treaty and remains fixed on the maintenance of border controls at ports of entry to the UK. However, the differential and conditional engagement that has developed with EU migration and asylum policy has been described by Tony Blair as ‘getting the best of both worlds’. What could it mean to get the best of both worlds? Can the ‘two worlds’ of Britain and Europe be so neatly distinguished? To answer these questions the article surveys the extent of British engagement with EU migration and asylum policy and explains when, how and why the UK has opted into key aspects of it, particularly the more coercive components concerned with asylum and border controls
Computer security · Economics · Ethnology · European union · International trade · Irregular migration · Key (lock) · Member states · Political economy · Political science · Refugee · Sociology · Treaty · Treaty of Lisbon · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
An Imperfect Integration
Divergent Traditions, Converging Responses
The re-politicization of the welfare state after the global financial crisis
Immigration policy and market institutions in liberal market economies
Immigration policy under New Labour
Some Useful Sources
British immigration policy, depoliticisation and Brexit
UK’s withdrawal from Justice and Home Affairs
Deciding on EU External Migration Policy
Normative power as hegemony
Migration and Integration in Europe, Southeast Asia, and Australia
Asylum seeker young people
One Europe or several Europes? The cultural logic of narratives of Europe — views from France and Britain
Opting Out of an Ever Closer Union
Politics of Exception and Unease
Behind the scenes of differentiated integration
The Diplomacy of Opting Out
From selective integration into selective implementation
| Citations per year | 0.95 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2022 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |