ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to analyse the evolution of the institutional context in which the European Union (EU) policies on asylum, migration and border controls have been developed. It examines how the institutional arrangements governing the EU’s asylum, migration and border control policies have evolved under the Treaty of Maastricht, the Treaty of Amsterdam and the Treaty of Lisbon respectively. The chapter shows that there has evidently been a steady growth of ‘communitarisation’. The Treaty of Amsterdam, which entered into force in 1999, introduced several important changes that significantly contributed to the communitarisation of the asylum, migration and external borders policy venues. Beside the ‘communitarisation’ of the EU asylum policy venue, as well as that of the EU borders and migration policy venues, one can identify another trend in the gradual development of the EU asylum policy venue since the entry into force of the Treaty of Maastricht, which can be labelled ‘judicialisation’
