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The Emerging European Immigration Regime: Some Reflections on Implications for Southern Europe
Author(s) -
BaldwinEdwards Martin
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
jcms: journal of common market studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.54
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1468-5965
pISSN - 0021-9886
DOI - 10.1111/1468-5965.00086
Subject(s) - european union , immigration , contradiction , political science , european integration , construct (python library) , eu countries , international trade , development economics , economy , geography , economics , law , philosophy , epistemology , computer science , programming language
Immigration is one of the more controversial areas in the history of European integration. Whilst northern European countries have been constructing elaborate compromises in the European Trade (EU) Treaties and in the Schengen group, southern European countries have been trying to construct their own immigration policies. Little attention has been paid in the literature to the relationship between these two phenomena: it is suggested here that southern countries have found it expedient to fit in with EU and Schengen arrangements, even though these appear impossible to implement. This contradiction is seen as intrinsic to the overall relations of Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece to the EU.