Skip to main content
Log in

the 2015 refugee crisis was not a turning point: explaining policy inertia in EU border control

  • Debate
  • Published:
European Political Science Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Anderson, M. (2002) ‘Trust and Police Cooperation’, in M. Anderson and J. Apap (eds) Police and Justice Cooperation and the New European Borders, The Hague: Kluwer Law International, pp. 35–46.

    Google Scholar 

  • Baumgartner, F. and Jones, B. (1993) Agendas and Instability in American Politics, Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • EC (2016) ‘EU operations in the Mediterranean Sea’, European Commission Factsheet. October. https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/sites/homeaffairs/files/what-we-do/policies/securing-eu-borders/fact- sheets/docs/20161006/eu_operations_in_the_mediterranean_sea_en.pdf, accessed 15 February 2017.

  • Geiger, M. and Pecoud, A. (2015) International Organisations and the Politics of Migration, London, Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • GISTI (2016) Accord UE-Turquie, la grande imposture. Rapport de mission dans les hotspots grecs de Chios et Lesbos, July, Paris: GISTI.

  • Guiraudon, V. (2000) ‘European integration and migration policy: Vertical policy-making as venue shopping’, Journal of Common Market Studies 38(2): 249–69.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • den Heijer, M. and Spijkerboer, T. (2016) ‘Is the EU-Turkey refugee and migration deal a treaty?’ EU Law Analysis blog. URL (accessed 18 April 2017): http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.jp/2016/04/is-eu-turkey-refugee-and-migration-deal.html.

  • IOM (2016) Fatal Journeys. Volume 2. Identification and Tracing of Dead and Missing Migrants, Geneva: International Organization for Migration.

  • Last, T., Mirto, G., Ulusoy, O., Urquijo, I., Harte, J., Bami, N., Pérez, M.P., Delgado, F.M., Tapella, F.A., Michalaki, A., Michalitsi, E., Latsoudi, E., Tselepi, N., Chatziprokopiou, M. and Spijkerboer, T. (2016) ‘Deaths at the borders database: evidence of deceased migrants’ bodies found along the southern external borders of the European Union’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 43(5): 693–712.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lavenex, Sandra (2015) ‘Justice and Home Affairs: Institutional Change and Policy Continuity’in H. Wallace, M. Pollack and A. Young (eds) Policy-Making in the European Union, seventh edition, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 367–387.

  • Peers, S. (2016) ‘The final EU/Turkey refugee deal: a legal assessment’, EU Law Analysis blog. URL (accessed 18 April 2017): http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.jp/2016/03/the-final-euturkey-refugee-deal-legal.html.

  • Rodier, C. (2012) Xénophobie business. A quoi servent les contrôles migratoires? Paris, La Découverte.

  • Weiner, M. (1995) The Global Migration Crisis. Challenge to States and to Human Rights, New York: Harper Collins.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Virginie Guiraudon.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Guiraudon, V. the 2015 refugee crisis was not a turning point: explaining policy inertia in EU border control. Eur Polit Sci 17, 151–160 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-017-0123-x

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-017-0123-x

Keywords

Navigation