1st Edition
Safe Third Countries Extending the EU Asylum and Immigration Policies to Central and Eastern Europe
By Sandra Lavenex
Copyright 1999
204 Pages
by
Central European University Press
The refugee issue has always been controversial and Lavenex's analyses add fuel to an already heated debate. She analyses the various bi- and multilateral processes by which the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs) are being gradually incorporated into a restrictive refugee regime established among the EU member states, in which the CEECs serve as gate-keepers for refugees and... Read more
Preface, 1 Refugees and International Relations, 2 The Emergence of the EU Refugee Regime, 3 The Extension of the EU refugee Regime, 4 Central and Eastern Europe’s Adaptation to the EU ‘Acquis’, 5 A Clas of Regimes? European versus International Refugee Protection, References, Index
Biography
Sandra Lavenex is at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Florence, Italy. She is the author of two previous titles on refugee issues.
