Keeping up with Schengen: Migration and Policy in the European Union

There is an inescapable relationship between the existence of migration movements and the resulting policies which are adopted by the authorities of the area concerned towards encouraging these movements, or more commonly towards attempting to control or to reduce them. This in turn means that the m...

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Published in:The International migration review 1995-12, Vol.29 (4), p.939-963
Main Authors: Convey, Andrew, Kupiszewski, Marek
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Citizenship
Community Relations
CONTEMPORARY EUROPE
Countries
Demography
Emigration and Immigration
Employment
European Union
Evaluation Studies as Topic
Freedom of movement
Geographers
Human migration
IMMIGRANTS
Immigration
Immigration policy
International agreements
International migration
Methodological problems
Migration
MIGRATION, IMMIGRATION AND EMIGRATION
Narcotics
Organizations
Police
Policies
Policy
Policy analysis
Policy making
Political aspects
Political factors
POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY
POLITICAL INTEGRATION OF DIFFERENT AREAS
POLITICAL POLICY
Population
Population Dynamics
Public Policy
Relationship
Terrorism
Treaties
Union Members
Work permits
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Summary:There is an inescapable relationship between the existence of migration movements and the resulting policies which are adopted by the authorities of the area concerned towards encouraging these movements, or more commonly towards attempting to control or to reduce them. This in turn means that the migration researcher must not only look at the effects of policy and changes in policy, important though this is, but must also attempt to understand the changing political factors which fuel the formation of policy. This paper aims to bring together some of the wide variety of policy issues and responses which may be observed in Europe at the present time and in the recent past, and in particular to make an assessment of the approaches being taken by the European Union member states as a whole, and also by the so-called Schengen group of member states. This article also attempts to look at the perceptions of these policies and their effects from the point of view of both the "western" and the "eastern" European countries, as migration policy issues are rarely one-sided. In conclusion, it considers some of the research issues and problems which are raised by geographers and others working in this area, difficulties which might be implied by our possibly flippant title, "Keeping Up with Schengen."
ISSN:0197-9183
1747-7379
DOI:10.1177/019791839502900405