This book explores how and why the EU and its member states define immigration policies. A comparison of EU negotiations on five EU immigration directives reveals interests of actors in EU integration and whether common policies aim at a restriction or expansion of immigration to the EU.

It is concerned with the major challenges that globalization, broadly defined, poses for traditional state governance and policy making. the book offers both a comprehensive overview of EU immigration policies and policy making and a richness of empirical detail that hitherto have been lacking. In so doing it provides an illuminating starting point for all those encountering the subject for the first time. (Anthony M. Messina, The European Legacy, Vol. 20 (2), December, 2015)

Autorentext

Christof Roos is Research Associate at the Collaborative Research Centre on 'Transformations of the State' at University of Bremen, Germany. He is co-author of Liberal States and the Freedom of Movement: Selective Borders, Unequal Mobility (with Steffen Mau, Heike Brabandt, and Lena Laube).

Inhalt

1. The Regulation of Immigration by the European Union: An Empirical Puzzle 2. Actor Preferences in EU Immigration Policies 3. Actor Interactions in EU Immigration Politics 4. Shifting Immigration Policies to the EU Level: Timing and Framing Policies 5. The Family Reunification Directive 6. The Long-Term Residents Directive 7. EU Directives for Students and Researchers from Third Countries 8. The Labour Migration Directive 9. Accounts, Prospects, and International Migration Governance