Problems chasing missing solutions
The politics of placing emigration on the EU agenda
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6289734 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cecilia Bruzelius (0000-0002-7574-0447, University of Copenhagen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 296-321 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of European Public Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-1763 • E-ISSN: 1466-4429 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13501763.2023.2292715 |
| OpenAlex | W4389784714 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 48 |
Despite emigrations’ adverse impacts on several EU Member States, especially in Central Eastern Europe, topics like brain drain and depopulation have received relatively little attention at EU level compared to concerns associated with free movement and immigration. This article offers an answer to why this is so. Drawing on agenda-setting theory, it argues that the institutional framework of the EU both inhibits and disincentivises attempts to turn emigration into an EU level topic. Seen through the lens of the EU policy, regulating emigration becomes a matter of cohesion policy, which makes it both difficult and unattractive to lobby. To assess the argument empirically, the article draws on elite interviews with national and EU policymakers and document analysis from 2010 to 2023. The analysis reveals a structural bias of the EU and offers an example of how pertinent political issues fail to become EU topics
Argument (complex analysis · Cohesion (chemistry · Development economics · Economics · Elite · Emigration · Immigration · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Power
The Political Economy of Monetary Solidarity
Talking to People III
Solidarity in the European Union
Agendas, alternatives, and public policies
Capitalist Diversity on Europe's Periphery
Emigration from the perspective of Polish health professionals – insights from a qualitative study
Coping with Emigration in Baltic and East European Countries
South-North Migration of EU Citizens in Times of Crisis
Fertility potential and child benefits questioned
Recent case before the Court of Justice of the European Union
European Integration, Capitalist Diversity and Crises Trajectories on Europe’s Eastern Periphery
The Political Economy of Policy Vacuums
Framing brain drain
The conditionality of EU freedom of movement
Migration and Socio-economic Transition
From consensus to domination
The political vision of Europe during the ‘refugee crisis’
Introduction
The asymmetry of European integration, or why the EU cannot be a 'social market economy
Loved and feared
Crashing and creeping
Agenda-setting in the European Union
Agenda-setting strategies in EU policy processes
Compensating for the effects of emigration. Eastern Europe and policy response to EU freedom of movement
Institutional contexts of political conflicts around free movement in the European Union
The European Union's authoritarian equilibrium
The Politics of Emigration in Europe
Free Movement and Welfare in the European Union
EU Actors under pressure
Politicization in the EU
Taking emigration seriously
Embeddedness and Regional Integration
Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms
Non-for-Profits and EU Citizens' Cross-Border Social Rights in Different Welfare States
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |