Governing Mobility Beyond the State - Centre, Periphery and the Eu''s External Borders

"How does the European Union maintain a multi-territorial area of free mobility, despite the fact that only its constituting units possess the necessary means to control mobility? This book explores the structural tensions and conflicts that arise with the abolition of border controls between the EU's member states and examines how these tensions affect and are affected by the institutional shape of the EU's external borders. Andreas Mèuller explores how the political interests in the institutional shapeof the EU's external borders differ between centre and periphery, and how these differences affect both external borders and the structure and stability of the Schengen area as a whole. Mèuller demonstrates the tensions underlying this multinational areaof mobility, and sheds light on the changing nature of the European nation state. "--

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Post-national Borders as Functions or Institutions: A Theoretical Framework 3. The EU and the Transformations of Borders 4. Methods and Research Design 5. Maintaining Internal Freedom of Movement: The European Commission's Perspective on the external EU- Borders 6. Enforcing Selective Migration Policies: Germany and the External EU-Borders 7. Promoting Open Borders: Poland and the Visa Obligation 8. The institutionalization of the EU's border Regime between Poland and Ukraine 9. Conclusion

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"This book is a timely contribution to the discussion about the institutionalization of the EU's external borders and the preferences and views of three sets of actors - the European Commission, the Member States and non-EU countries - on this border. ... This book makes for interesting reading for all those studying the politics of the EU's external borders." (Natasja Reslow, Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 54 (2), 2016)

Product details

• Authors: A. M¿ller, A. Muller, Andreas Muller, A Müller, A. Müller
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.07.2014
• EAN: 9781137389411
• ISBN: 978-1-137-38941-1
• No. of pages: 241
• Series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology; Palgrave Studies in European P; Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology; Palgrave Studies in European P
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Migration, B, Sociology, Europe, European Politics, Political Science, Political Sociology, biotechnology, European Union, Politics & government, Political science & theory, Migration, immigration & emigration, EU (European Union), Emigration and immigration, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, European Union Politics, Europe—Politics and government, Ethnology—Europe, European Culture