ABSTRACT
This chapter revolves around three basic questions: who manages immigration and integration of third-country nationals (TCNs) in contemporary Europe, what are the modes of governance behind that management, and a question of a more critical nature, do these modes of governance produce comprehensive, consistent and sufficiently transparent regulation. It is part of a larger research project on the consistencies of European migration law. The chapter focuses on two issues: the right to family reunification for TCNs, and the newly created status of TCNs who are long-term residents. Immigration and integration of TCNs appear to be particularly sensitive areas to regulate, since both issues have a number of core economic, social and cultural consequences which directly affect not only TCNs, but also EU citizens and, more broadly, civil society. This analysis endeavours simply to illustrate some of the effects of these disagreements among EU Member States.
