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Study On EU Immigration Politics

Posted on:2008-06-11Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z Q ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:1116360212990593Subject:Scientific Socialism and International Communist Movement
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This paper is aimed at exploring the theories and practices of the development of the immigration politics in the EU. Migration has been an ancient phenomenon in the world, but never has it been a global problem as it has been now, as the large scale of migrants' transfer is characteristic of transnational and beyond the border of the countries. And its influence has surpass the limits of the nation, turning into a premier problem connected with economy, politics, culture and security.The paper's innovation lies in the aspects as follows:Firstly, the cognition of the nature of immigration issue. The EU immigrants problem occurs under the background of globalization, as a result of necessary "reassignment between labor and power". Labor's reassignment embodies the counter move of the human resources resulted from the grads distribution of global industries(EU's outward expansion ,while the labor's inward flow ),the emergence of immigrants is just the carrier of the labor's reassignment. The immigration issue is in nature a political one, which is extending from the domestic political field to the international political and geopolitical field. The core of the immigration issue is immigration policy.The reassignment of the power results in the competition for sovereignty in immigration governance. There appears the tendency of "Europeanization" of the structure of immigration governance. Through "the game of power" with national countries, EU will dominate and play a multilateral institutional role in the end. Although the supranational institution promotes the height of immigration issue continuously leading to "the upgrade" uprightly, as well as the horizontal "pull" from the sovereignty nation, the member states remain the "real power" in the immigration issue temporarily. The EU's inner governance and diplomacy surrounding the reassignment of labor and power presents "the regional inner globalization" to realize the prosperity and unity ,as well as "the outward globalization" to resume the role of the European Centralism by emphasizing its global responsibility. The EU's authority is not strong now, but the tendency towards the Europeanization of immigration governance is inevitable.Immigrants' political rights presents substantial rights centering the labor rights such as the employment ,welfare and residence as well as the reassignment rights centering the citizenship such as the identity, integration and the chance of participation in politics.Secondly, from the perspective of analysis , this paper is based on the globalization, absorbing the immigration issue from the sociology into political field to study, while combining the different knowledge such as domestic politics, international politics ,globalization governance and identity politics , and make some efforts to realize some changes of paradigm. This paper is based on the geopolitical "game" on immigration issues among the EU member states, the EU and non-EU regions , bringing the immigrants' original countries ,transit countries and host countries into the scope of the study on the EU immigration governance, with the field of vision being widening ,and the depth of study being deepening.Thirdly, EU immigration issue has risen from "Third Pillar" to "First Pillar" from the tendency. And if it cannot be solved satisfactorily, the issue may result in the following consequences: (1)immigration crisis which can result in social crisis and political crisis as well as the crisis within a country which can result in region crisis. (2) tensions of bi-lateral and multi-lateral relations among national countries as well as the gap between national countries and EU mechanism. (3) quarrels between new members and old members of EU about responsibility share and immigrants settlement issue (for instance, new members of EU are poor and many citizen of these countries poured into west Europe after the boundary opening, which delayed the speed of EU economic development and integration quality.) (4) if the cultural background, race and education level, economic incomes of immigrants contrast sharply with migrate countries, immigration fusion and recognition can cause race discrimination, national conflicts, social crime, even terror and disaster.(5) change of geopolitics pattern. Immigrants flow and EU enlargement destroy EU powers' relations and the original configuration of transatlantic relations, even worse, the interference of non-EU powers which may affect the unity of EU and decision potency of integration. In the future, such new political ecology will emerge, that is, immigration social group will weaken national race, core culture will be formed by fusion from multi-culture, world mechanism will replace country governance. The new way of EU is from contradictory multi-recognition to multi-dimensional integration, the premise of which is the transition of governance ideas and patterns of EU and its member countries. Fourthly, the solution of immigration issue needs establishing long-term mechanism, implementing mutual immigration policies within EU trans-national mechanism. The host governments need implement immigration policy reforms, regulate immigration flow order, strengthen boundary governance, meanwhile, formulate immigration policies according to the same immigration criteria that should be obeyed by all member countries, cooperate with each other to attack immigration smuggling, oppose racial ,formulate immigrate acceptance system, provide financial support.Besides, it is necessary to change from the traditional and negative immigrant management ways to positive ones, apply the functions of super-national mechanism, non-governmental organizations, civil society, promote boundary opening, safeguard immigrants' lawful rights, strengthen orderly management; the host countries should coordinate and discuss with original countries and relay countries to decrease immigration tendency from poor countries by foreign aids.Lastly, it is necessary to change from negative immigration fusion to positive one, support minority tribal groups in respect to economy, welfare, employment and give them equal treatment politically, promote language culture education career, solve ethnic contradictions.Migration is the cause of the globalization as well as migration is the result of it. As the fast development of the globalization, the world is greeting a migration age. Migration issue is a political one in nature, and is extending form internal field to international and geographical political field. The core of the immigration politics is immigration policy. This paper is under the background of globalization, making "reassignment of the labor and power" as the main clue to start the study. Reassignment of the labor embodies the flux of the counter direction of the personnel resources because of the uneven distribution of global industries (the EU enlarges outside and labor flow inside),while the immigrants are just the carriers of the reassignment. The issue indicates market and liberalism cannot rescue the EU. From this aspect, we can further to analyze the political rights of immigrants.This paper has been divided into six chapters , adds up to eight parts including introduction and conclusion. In the introduction, mainly states the subject's research background, definition of the related terms and approaches of the research.In Chapter One, the evolution immigrants history and its feature has been introduced, as well as immigrants' role in the EU development. Chapter Two is about the necessity of the common immigration policy as well as the process and framework of its content under the supranational framework.Chapter Three concerns the geopolitical diplomacy on immigration issue: harmonious diplomacy, relations between the EU and immigrants-providing countries and the international relations among the member states in the EU as well as the EU-US relations.Chapter Four focuses on the operation mechanism of the immigration politics, the key points are factors behind the pendulum of the party politics and the game process between the EU and nation countries.In Chapter Five, under the background of Europeanization, we analyzes the status of the political participation of the EU, national countries, immigrants and non-governmental actors and civil society as well as their roles.In Chapter six, we make Germany as a case to analyzes immigration , the history and situation as well as the general immigration policy set by national governments under the background of common immigration policy.Finally, the conclusion part tells that the nature of the EU immigration issue and the other problems faced by the EU is identity. In order to achieve the high homogeneity as well as multiculturalism, the essential problem is how to constitute the identity between the EU citizen and foreign immigrants, the EU mass and the government, EU mass and the EU as well as the member states and EU. As long as all of the whole problems have been solved, the EU can achieve the high multi-homogeneity in politics, and make the immigrants and EU citizens share the justice, freedom and security.To sum up, EU immigration issue has its own characteristics. Polarized world is the main reason for the immigration pressure of EU and its member countries, which can only be solved by global governance. EU now is experiencing from conflict, war, frail status among national countries to the significant period of cooperation and unity. With the depth of integration process, the immigration issue will project, from national contradiction to region contradiction, from economic conflict and social disorder to political disorder and security threats, which will change political map of EU in one aspect and bring about "non-traditional security" in the other one.
Keywords/Search Tags:EU, Immigration Politics, Identity
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