The Europeanisation of Refugee Policies: Between Human Rights and Internal Security

by Sandra Lavenex

"From the beginnings of intergovernmental co-operation in the 1980s to the Amsterdam Treaty and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, the developing EU refugee policies have oscillated between the conflicting policy frames of internal security on the one hand and human rights on the other. Taking a multilevel perspective on the process of Europeanisation, this work highlights the entanglement between domestic asylum reforms in Germany and France and European co-operation and investigates the scope for a common refugee policy in the EU." This analysis of the Europeanisation of asylum policies is essential reading for scholars of European integration, asylum and refugee policy, and all those interested in the prospect of political unification in Europe.

235 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2001