Lyubov Zhyznomirska
"The Art of Governing Beyond the EU Borders: Co-operation between the EU and its Neighbors on Managing Migration"
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Abstract
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The enlargement and integration of the European Union (EU) has gradually led to a common migration regime, created through harmonization of immigration and asylum policies within the EU member states. This regime regulates the movement of persons across borders and the entry and stay of non-EU nationals in the common territory. The contention is that this migration regime shapes policy-making not only for the members of the European Union and the accession countries, but also for the states cooperating with the Union. Since the 1990s, the EU member states have been transferring the burden of securing their internal order from unwanted immigrants to neighbouring countries, using policy transfers and foreign relations mechanisms. The research on the EU impact, however, has largely focused on the accession countries of Central and Eastern Europe; non-member and non-accession countries have received comparatively little attention. This project will examine the ways in which the European Union’s evolving immigration and asylum policies and border management practices are affecting states on the Union’s eastern border – specifically, Russia and Ukraine, neither member nor accession states. Drawing on constructivist and discourse analysis research programs, the consequences of the externalization of the EU immigration and asylum policies and border management practices for the sovereignties of these states will be analyzed. I claim that the changing meaning of borders and border relationships – both among EU Member states and between the EU and its neighbours – presents a challenging and rich opportunity for an inquiry into how political power is spatially reorganized with the enlargement process, and what is left of the rhetoric of sovereignty in the current era of interdependence.
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