Original scientific paper
Postnational or National Europe? European Asylum Policies and Immigration Controls
Vedrana Baričević
; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The paper deals with the theories of the transformation of the modern functions of the nation state and the immigrant membership associated with the (legally defined) status of community members exemplified by asylum policies. In the process, two fundamental approaches to the issue are distinguished: the first one emphasizing changes in the institution of the traditional national citizenship and competences of the nation state, while stressing a predominantly national character of the institution of citizenship, and the second one, which emphasizes the transformation of traditional citizenships, stressing the weakening of the role of the nation state. Therefore, in the latter case, there is increasingly more talk about postnationalism, which is a term denoting the transformation of the substantive aspects of citizenship in the EU countries. The mentioned theoretical approaches are applied to three groups of issues. First, the impact of the EU on the processes of the globalisation of the rights of asylum migrants are examined. Second, the paper works out the details of the way of formulating the policy of asylum membership in the EU member states. Third, the question of whether universal postnational inclusion of asylum migrants is at work in the EU member states, or whether the status of this group of immigrants should be found within the limits of the traditional theory of state membership and national sovereignty is addressed
Keywords
EU asylum policies; national citizenship; rights of asylum migrants; postnational inclusion of asylum migrants; immigration policy
Hrčak ID:
77763
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Publication date:
31.1.2012.
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