Tampere And Legal Migration Channels: The Case Of Italy
Tampere And Legal Migration Channels: The Case Of Italy

Author(s): Sebastian Carlotti
Subject(s): Migration Studies, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Legal Migration Channels; Italy;
Summary/Abstract: The creation of new legal migration channels has been a core pillar of the EU since the Tampere Council in 1999. The framework behind this approach aimed to implement the concept of circular migration and to establish an increasingly flexible European labour market. Since then, the EU encountered a strong opposition of its Member States who refused to cede their sovereignty on migration policy, and, eventually, decided to further restrict legal opportunities for immigration. Twenty years after Tampere, this paper examines the case of Italy’s securitised migration as it serves as a useful paradigm of EU migration policies since then.

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