The Impact of the Migration Crisis on the Process of Shaping Goals and Instruments of the EU Immigration Policy.
The Impact of the Migration Crisis on the Process of Shaping Goals and Instruments of the EU Immigration Policy.

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is the reconstruction of the nature of the EU immigration policy that emerges from the EU’s activities in the migration crisis, undertaken from 2015 till 2017. The analysis is focused on the legislative and political measures adopted by the EU according to the European Agenda on Migration, which was presented in May 2015. The implementation of this political agenda was de facto the EU’s response to the unprecedented inflow of asylum seekers and economic migrants to Europe. The article underlines that security is a factor which fundamentally determines the EU’s immigration policy from its very beginning, but after 2015 the security-oriented aspects of the EU’s immigration policy was furthered strengthened. The EU’s intervention in the migration crisis, giving priority to security-driven concern, was focused on meeting a ‘secure borders’ demand, understood as increasing the level of their closing (as opposed to opening) and impenetrability. As a result, the EU’s response to the migration crisis has been very narrow, fragmented and insufficient in the short-term, as well as in the long-term activities.

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