ABSTRACT
This chapter uses the example of the adjustment of Serbian migration policy to the EU directives to explain how EU enlargement externalised border control and formed migration movement in South-eastern Europe. I show that integration with the EU shaped not only migration through this region but also emigration from these states. I explain that the promise of the EU enlargement for post-Yugoslav states works as an inducement for the post-Yugoslav countries to subjugate their migration laws to the EU requirements that, on one had made the Balkan states halt unwanted migrants on their territories, and simultaneously facilitate emigration to the EU of educated young citizens from there states. Thus, EU polities create racist and exploitative regulations, dividing people into “undeserving irregular migrants” and “mobile professional workers”. I also show how, in trying to stop irregular migration the EU trades shortcomings in the rule of law and free speech in post-Yugoslav region for alleged political stability in the region which in fact is only illusionary.
