EU Migration Law: The Opportunities and Challenges Ahead

Tine Munk, Dora Kostakopoulou, Diego Acosta Arcarazo, Cian Murphy (Editor)

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Abstract

The purpose of this chapter is to shed light onto the institutional openings that have appeared in post-Lisbon Europe and the new policy directions that are emerging. These move away from the logic of preventing, restricting and reducing extra-EU migration thereby opening the way for a different frame of labour migration which seeks to maximise migrants’ contributions to economies and societies and to manage complex processes of change. Although it is difficult to predict what the future might hold, it is nevertheless the case that the Stockholm Programme and the strengthening of fundamental rights in the EU point towards the possibility of a labour migration policy that replaces national executives’ monologues with conversations among multiple participants. The proposal, as yet unfulfilled to adopt an EU Immigration Code could signal the creation of an EU labour migration policy in ways that require refinement of our ethics and political morality while questioning vested interests and established ideology.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEU Security and Justice Law
Subtitle of host publicationAfter Lisbon and Stockholm
Place of PublicationOxford. United Kingdom
PublisherHart Publishing
Pages129-145
Number of pages16
Volume42
Edition1
ISBN (Print)978-1-84946-422-2
Publication statusPublished - Feb 2014

Publication series

NameModern Studies in European Law
PublisherHart Publishing Ltd
Volume42

Keywords

  • European Union, immigration code, third country nationals, the single permit directive, the seasonal workers directive, the intra-corporate transferees directive

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