Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The refugee ‘problem’
- PART I The refugee: a conceptual analysis
- PART II The refugee: an historical analysis
- PART III The refugee: a contemporary analysis
- 7 The external dimension of EU refugee policy
- 8 The way ahead
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
7 - The external dimension of EU refugee policy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The refugee ‘problem’
- PART I The refugee: a conceptual analysis
- PART II The refugee: an historical analysis
- PART III The refugee: a contemporary analysis
- 7 The external dimension of EU refugee policy
- 8 The way ahead
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Summary
Providing security and long-term solutions for such refugees is a humanitarian imperative. And to the extent that it can contribute to this objective, then the notion of ‘protection in regions of origin’ must be welcomed. At the same time, we should not expect this approach to provide any easy answers to the asylum and migration dilemmas of the world's more prosperous states.
Jeff CrispThis book has thus far set out a normative rethinking of the refugee concept from an international society perspective and considered how this created a statist understanding of the modern refugee as she evolved over the inter-war and Cold War periods. This chapter now turns to the contemporary period to ask how the statist construction of the refugee affects the way in which the international community formulates contemporary refugee policy. By using the English School to view the EU as a particular example of a regional international society, it highlights how EU refugee policy has become more protection oriented, which can be explained by the diffusion of norms and socialisation of states to move to a more comprehensive agenda.
It first looks at the context in which refugee policy is now made, in particular the increasing difficulty of distinguishing refugees from other migrants. It then analyses the recent phenomenon to externalise EU refugee policy and looks at the specific example of proposals for Regional Protection Programmes as one form of this externalisation.
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- The Refugee in International SocietyBetween Sovereigns, pp. 165 - 191Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008