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The External Dimension of EU Refugee Policy: A New Approach to Asylum?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Emma Haddad
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Abstract

This article first looks at developments in the external dimension of EU migration and refugee policy, as highlighted by a succession of Commission Communications and Council or European Council conclusions that have emphasized the need to integrate migration and asylum more firmly into the Union's external policies. It then looks at one particular recent experiment with externalizing refugee policy, namely the invention of ‘Regional Protection Programmes’. Finally it asks what this concept of regional protection has meant in normative terms, before suggesting ways in which the space afforded protection has been altered.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 43 , Issue 2 , 2008 , pp. 190 - 205
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2008.

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