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The European Union's Externalisation Policy in the Field of Migration and Asylum: Turkey as a Case Study

N. Ela Gökalp Aras | Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII)

This report is part of the RESPOND Project’s Work Package 6 (WP6), titled ‘Conflicting Europeanisation’, which focuses on the internal and external dynamics of the European Union’s (EU) migration and asylum policy. In this framework, WP6 examines how the recent migration crisis has affected the future of European integration. It analyses the main parameters of divergence in migration governance and explores how these could impinge on the future course that EU integration takes…

Europeanisation ConflictRESPOND Horizon2020March 8, 2021Italy, University of Florence, Sant’Anna School of Advanced StudiesComment

Conflicting Conceptualisations of Europeanisation: ITALY Country Report

Andrea Terlizzi | Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies - Claudia Marchese | University of Florence

This report examines the emergence and evolution of conflicting elite discourses over Europeanisation in the context of increasing external migration in Italy. It investigates how major political actors have framed Europeanisation and constructed political claims to justify and legitimise policy decisions. Moreover, it assesses how these claims have circulated in the mass media.

Europeanisation ConflictRESPOND Horizon2020December 2, 2020Italy, University of Florence, Sant’Anna School of Advanced StudiesComment

Conflicting Conceptualisations of Europeanisation: SWEDEN Country Report

Karin Borevi | Uppsala University - Vasileios Petrogiannis | Södertörn University

This report explores how recent processes of immigration have changed discourses about Europe and migration in Swedish political speeches and newspaper editorials 2011-2018. In the period up to September 2015, political speeches and editorials reflected a dominant humanitarian discourse and Sweden was expected to strive for a better and more…

Europeanisation ConflictRESPOND Horizon2020November 25, 2020Sweden, Uppsala University, Sodertorn UniversityComment

Conflicting Conceptualisations of Europeanisation: HUNGARY Country Report

Umut Korkut | Glasgow Caledonian University

This report reviews the unfolding of the future of Europe and external migration related narratives in Hungary, and the liberal/conservative dilemmas that Hungarian politicians proposed since 2015. Its particular scope is the Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s speeches and how they were quoted by or referred to in the Hungarian media. The abrupt increase in the number of irregular migrant arrivals to Hungary prepared the conditions for Orbán to project the course that he foresaw for the conservative transformation for Hungary to transform Europe.

Europeanisation ConflictRESPOND Horizon2020November 6, 2020Hungary, Glasgow Caledonian UniversityComment

Conflicting Conceptualisations of Europeanisation: GREECE Country Report

Evangelia Papatzani, Nadina Leivaditi, Aggelos Ilias, Electra Petracou | University of the Aegean

This report is part of the sixth work package of RESPOND (“Multilevel governance of mass migration in Europe and beyond”) and focuses on the question of Europeanisation. The main goal of this report is to examine how conflicting elite discourses of Europeanisation have emerged in the context of increasing migration in the period 2011-2019 in Greece.

Europeanisation ConflictRESPOND Horizon2020November 4, 2020Greece, University of the AegeanComment

Conflicting Conceptualisations of Europeanisation: POLAND Country Report

Justyna Szalanska | University of Warsaw

This report aims to present the results of research on migration discourse and its effect on Europeanisation in Poland. The main objective of the research was to examine how political elite discourse on increasing external migration to the EU is framed in media and deliberated among stakeholders with regard to the course of Europeanisation. The research was based on a three-step analytical process: analysis of political speeches, analysis of the media, and analysis of stakeholder’s opinions.

Europeanisation ConflictRESPOND Horizon2020October 30, 2020Poland, University of WarsawComment

Conflicting Conceptualisations of Europeanisation: AUSTRIA Country Report

Ivan Josipovic, Ursula Reeger | Austrian Academy of Sciences (OEAW)

This working paper provides preliminary insights into public debates over Europeanisation and migration in Austria between 2011 and 2019. Based on a qualitative political claims analysis of 15 political speeches, 21 newspaper articles and nine stakeholder interviews, it provides an overview on how various actors problematized the EU, its Member States, and their policymaking and political targets in the realm of migration and asylum. Early research results show a widely shared discontent over the EU’s asylum system.

Europeanisation ConflictRESPOND Horizon2020October 26, 2020Austria, Institute for Urban and Regional Research Austrian Academy of SciencesComment

Conflicting Conceptualisations of Europeanisation: GERMANY Country Report

Alexander K. Nagel | Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

This report explores how recent processes of immigration have changed discourses about “Europe” in Germany. It aims at a) capturing conflicting Europeanisation in the German context and to aid theory-construction by adding to a comparative picture, b) developing a perspective on the role of media in domestic audience-making in this context and c) understanding how the above impacts on different professional audiences, including the stakeholders assembled within the RESPOND project.

Europeanisation ConflictRESPOND Horizon2020October 23, 2020Göttingen University, GermanyComment

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