“Harmonization of Migration Policies in the European Union: A State-Centric of Institutionalist Explanation?”

Lu, Chien-Yi. (1999) “Harmonization of Migration Policies in the European Union: A State-Centric of Institutionalist Explanation?”. In: UNSPECIFIED, Pittsburgh, PA. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

In an attempt to uncover answers, this paper traces the various initiatives for collective migration policy-making in the history of European integration and explores the rationale for these initiatives, the evolution of cooperation outside the EC institutions, and the relations between the Community and intergovernmental processes up until the Amsterdam Treaty. I argue that the reason border control, migration, and asylum policies have increasingly become in the common interests for Member States is to be found in functional spillover effects, elite advocacy and support of technocrats.

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