1. Transferring Asylum Norms to EU Neighbours: Multi-Scalar Policies and Practices in Ukraine
- Author
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Irina Mützelburg, Triangle : action, discours, pensée politique et économique (TRIANGLE), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-Sciences Po Lyon - Institut d'études politiques de Lyon (IEP Lyon), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Sciences Po (Sciences Po), Centre Marc Bloch (CMB), and Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères (MEAE)-Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung-Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (M.E.N.E.S.R.)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Subjects
[SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology ,International Organisations' Normative power ,Externalisation of the reception of asylum seekers ,Policy transfer ,[SHS.SCIPO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science ,Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) ,Public policy implementation ,Circulation of norms ,Street-level bureaucracy ,Politics & International Relations ,Post-Soviet States ,Transfer of norms ,Asylum Policies ,European Union ,EU neighbourhood ,Ukraine - Abstract
International audience; This book analyses why the Ukrainian state established asylum laws and policies in the thirty years since 1991, even though the number of asylum seekers was very low. International and non-governmental organisations transferred international asylum norms to Ukraine. Various state and non-state actors participated in this process, translating, spreading, and resisting those norms. In many cases, legislative adoption was driven by domestic politicians’ pursuit of recognition by international organisations, such as the European Union and the Council of Europe, and by their desire to meet conditionality requirements. NGOs sought to influence administrative practices, alternating between confrontational and conciliatory, formal and informal approaches, and often relying on personal contacts. Actors used and shifted between scales in order to transfer norms or resist transfer. In the process, they produced, renegotiated, and confirmed those scales. For instance, NGOs resorting to the European Court of Human Rights to prevent refoulement placed the European scale above the national scale. This book offers a new multi-actor and multi-scalar analysis of policy transfer.
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- 2022