This book analyses how international and non-governmental organisations have transferred international asylum norms to Ukraine despite the country's low number of asylum seekers over the last 30 years. Various actors, local and international, state and non-state, participate in multi-scalar transfer, which involves translating, spreading, and sometimes resisting the norms. Analysing the support of and subtle forms of resistance to the legislative adoption of international norms in Ukraine's Parliament, this research shows that adoption is shaped largely by domestic politicians' pursuit of recognition and conditionality of international organisations such as the European Union and the Council of Europe. Non-state actors seek to influence administrative practices by adapting to resistance and structural obstacles, using top-down and horizontal confrontational and conciliatory, formal and informal approaches, often relying on personal contacts. While norm promoters try to formalise changes, the effects of the transfer attempts on state practices remain heterogeneous and unstable across actors, space, and time.

Irina Mützelburg is Researcher at the Centre for East European and International Studies in Berlin, Germany. Her research interests include NGO-donor relations, administrative practices, and migration and education policies in Ukraine. She has taught, among others, at the Humboldt University, Germany, the European University Viadrina, Germany, and Sciences Po, France.

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Irina Mützelburg is Researcher at the Centre for East European and International Studies in Berlin, Germany. Her research interests include NGO-donor relations, administrative practices, and migration and education policies in Ukraine. She has taught, among others, at the Humboldt University, Germany, the European University Viadrina, Germany, and Sciences Po, France.

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Part I. The Formal Adoption of Asylum Norms in Ukraine: A Process Under the Influence of International Actors Chapter 1. An Unfavourable Domestic Context for the Development of Asylum Policies Chapter 2. From Shallow to Deep Legislative Adoption of International Norms: Political Interests and the Strength of the Norms Chapter 3. From Shallow to Deep Adoption of International Norms: International Organisations' Normative Power Part II. Modalities and Volatility of the Transformations of State Practises: Norm Entrepreneurs' Adaptive Strategies Chapter 4. Policy Implementation between Top-Down Obstacles, Street-Level Bureaucrats' Heterogeneous Responses and Use of Formal Norms Chapter 5. Unstable Norm Transfer from Externally Created NGO-Norm Entrepreneurs to State Officials through Direct Interactions Chapter 6. Norm Promoters' Adaptive Strategies: Resorting to Hierarchies and State 'Passeurs' to Overcome Resistance