Titlebook: Europe‘s Migrant Policies; Illusions of Integra Suzanne Mulcahy Book 2011 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 20

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Book 2011What determines Europe‘s migrant policies and where does the EU fit into this picture? This book is a comparative analysis of the impact of the EU, if any, on the policies and politics of immigrant integration in its member states. It investigates whether the EU can be a force for good in this policy area.

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230353305Comparative analysis; desegregation; Europe; European Union (EU); Germany; Integration; Policy; politics; eu

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Introduction,s issue on the top of media, public and political agendas in Europe. Bans on the construction of minarets in Switzerland, prohibition of the wearing of face-covering veils in Belgium and crackdowns on Roma migrants in France and Italy are clear signs of the growing preoccupation with the issue. Thes

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Theorising Policy Convergence in Europe,al framework for making sense of how and why policy convergence happens in the EU is required. To start, we briefly outline the shortcomings of the most prominent theoretical approach, namely top-down Europeanisation, for explaining convergence in policy areas in which the EU has no legal competence

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The Emergence of a Common EU Policy on Migrant Integration,ocal points of this emerging EU policy of immigrant integration? In the opening section, we consider the scope of EU policies on immigrant integration, distinguishing between hard and soft law in the area. The EU institutions have issued a number of important and binding directives which have indire

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Civic Integration Policies in Europe,mpulsion, or whether it is underlying domestic factors that remain determinant. All member states, as we know, have signed up to the Common Basic Principles of Integration which state that ‘member states should develop national integration programmes, which emphasise civic integration and transmit “

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Explaining Outliers: A Closer Look at Civic Integration in Germany and Italy, presence of a far-right party on the political landscape. However, while the causal story of the turn towards civic integration as a ‘restrictive compromise’ adopted by mainstream elites reacting to the rise of far-right parties is plausible in most member states (Austria, Belgium, France, Denmark,

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Migrant Enfranchisement Policies in Europe,ertain member states as a political and ideological compromise in a climate of domestic politicisation of immigrant integration. In light of these findings, holding up the clustered convergence around civic integration as a ‘pertinent example of softlaw Europeanisation’ (Joppke 2007c:247) seems some