ABSTRACT

This book examines migration as a key element of the European Union's (EU’s) foreign policy and thus a critical domain for understanding and evaluating EU external action.

It documents, explains, and assesses the implementation of EU migration policies, especially after the crisis of 2015, providing a much-needed overall evaluation and comparison in different geographic contexts. Applying a composite approach to global political justice, it affords a normative assessment of EU’s action and shows the tensions between the justice claims of the many actors involved in the EU migration system of governance.

This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and policymakers in European Union external/foreign policy, migration and refugee studies, global justice, ethics and more broadly to European studies/politics, and international relations.

chapter 3|19 pages

Building a common understanding on the management of migration

The mobility partnership between the EU and the Republic of Moldova

chapter 4|18 pages

Closing the door to migrants and refugees

Assessing justice in the EU-Turkey statement

chapter 5|18 pages

The EU's response to forced migration from Afghanistan

A joint way forward for returns?

chapter 7|17 pages

Not its own man

The EU, West African migration and the justice question

chapter 9|16 pages

External ambition, internal tensions

The EU's justice contribution to the Global Compact for Migration

chapter 10|23 pages

EU foreign policy and migration

A political and normative assessment