New asylum countries? : migration control and refugee protection in an enlarged European Union / edited by Rosemary Byrne, Gregor Noll, Jens Vedsted-Hansen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Byrne, Rosemary.

Noll, Gregor

Vedsted-Hansen, Jens

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Immigration and asylum law and policy in Europe ; v. 4.

Immigration and asylum law and policy in Europe ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asylum, Right of--European Union countries.

Asylum, Right of.

Political refugees--Legal status, laws, etc.

European Union countries.

Political refugees--Legal status, laws, etc--European Union countries.

Political refugees.

Asylum, Right of--Europe, Eastern.

Political refugees--Legal status, laws, etc--Europe, Eastern.

Eastern Europe.

Physical Description:

xx, 463 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Migration control and refugee protection in an enlarged European Union

Place of Publication:

The Hague ; Boston : Kluwer Law International, [2002]

Contents:

1 Western European Asylum Policies for Export: the Transfer of Protection and Deflection Formulas to Central Europe and the Baltics 5

1.I The EU Accession Process 5

1.II Non-Admission and Non-Arrival Policies 10

1.III Safe Third Country Practices 17

1.IV Reshuffling Protection Burdens 28

2 The Central Link: Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic 29

2.I Germany 29

2.II Poland 48

2.III The Czech Republic 78

2.IV Conclusions on the Central Link 94

3 The Southern Link: Austria and Hungary 100

3.I Austria 100

3.II Hungary 138

3.III Concluding Observations on the Southern Link 200

4 The Northern Link 203

4.I Nordic Policy Responses to the Baltic Asylum Challenge 203

4.II Lithuania 226

4.III Latvia 267

4.IV Estonia 281

4.V Concluding Observations on the Northern Link 301

5 Protection in a Spirit of Solidarity? 305

5.I The Role of Burden-Sharing in the Enlargement Context 305

5.II A Synopsis of Burden-Sharing in the EU Context 313

5.III Burden-Concentration in Europe 319

6 Title IV TEC and the Schengen Integration Protocol with Special Regard to Implications on Accession Candidates 325

6.II A New Areas of Jurisdiction in Title IV of the TEC; the Third Pillar Acquis in the Fields of Asylum and Refugee Law to be Implemented in the First Pillar 328

6.III Resume 350

7 Recent Developments in Central Europe and the Baltic States in the Asylum Field: a View from Unhcr and the Strategies of the High Commissioner for Enhancing the Asylum Systems of the Region 351

7.II Recent Developments in the Central European and Baltic States 352

7.III UNHCR's Objectives and Strategies in Central Europe and the Baltic States 356

7.IV EU Involvement in Institution and Capacity Building in the Central European and Baltic States 359

7.V EU Harmonization and the EU Acquis on Asylum: UNHCR's Perspective on the Implications for the Central European and Baltic States 360

7.VI Assessing the Results of UNHCR's Strategy 366

7.VII An Attempt to Predict the Future 368

8 Future Perspectives: Accession and Asylum in an Expanded European Union 373

8.II Migration and Asylum Policy in the West in the 1990s 378

8.III Factoring the Influences on Asylum Policy: the Accession Process in Context 381

8.IV The Process of Accession 396

8.V The Tampere Summit and the Future of the Asylum Acquis 399

8.VI Transposing the Acquis 402

8.VII Lessons Learned 421

9 Transformation of Asylum in Europe 423

9.I A Comparative Assessment of Migration Control and Refugee Protection in the Three Sub-regions 424

9.II The Phases of the Transformation of Asylum 426

9.III Asylum and Enlargement 429.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-437) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9041117539

OCLC:

49493040