Full Description
The Admission and Integration of Refugees in Europe argues for a more interconnected understanding of laws and policies for the admission and integration of refugees and asylum seekers in the European Union.
Admission and integration normally refer to different phases of the migratory process, but this demonstrates that they are inherently interconnected. Certain legal statuses conferred in admission procedures are directly relevant for the integration prospects of migrants, and the success or failure to integrate has potential repercussions for residence rights, although refugees are in that respect better protected than other immigrants. Legal pluralism further complicates the European context, as admission is often seen as under European Union jurisdiction, and integration as a Member State consideration. However, the book argues that this legal pluralism in fact helps us to better explain how interaction between admission and integration takes place across laws and legal orders. Combining broad conceptual and constitutional analysis with closer readings of specific policies and country-specific case studies, this book demonstrates the potential for specific admission policies to either promote or hinder integration.
This book will be an important contribution to debates on European asylum and refugee law, human rights, and migrant integration policy.
Contents
Introduction: Methodology and conceptual toolbox
1 Connecting admission and integration of refugees in the legal and political frameworks and discourses
Sebastian Meyer, Giacomo Solano and Salvatore Fabio Nicolosi
PART I The link between admission and integration in the European legal and political frame
2 The constitutional dimension of admission and integration in the shared legal order of the European Union
Sebastian Meyer
3 Navigating the right to family reunification for refugees in the EU: Legal challenges and pathways for policy reform
Carmine Conte
4 When admission excludes integration: Temporary protection in European Union law and practice
Salvatore Fabio Nicolosi and Luca Beres
PART II Combining admission and integration at different levels of the EU governance
5 Admission and reception of refugees: A comparison between Spain and Italy
Valentina Faggiani
6 The reception and integration of beneficiaries of international protection in Poland
Anna Doliwa-Klepacka
7 Admission and integration of refugees and asylum seekers to (the labour market in) the Netherlands
Paul Minderhoud
8 The interconnectedness of the mental health and labour market integration of refugees: Local support landscapes for refugee integration in Dutch municipalities
Jose Muller-Dugic, Pascal Beckers, Lilas Fahham and Lennert Werner
9 The engagement of local authorities in refugee sponsorship: Comparing Canada, the United Kingdom, Spain and the Netherlands
Tihomir Sabchev and Sara Miellet
10 "University sponsorship" for refugee admission and integration: The Italian experience
Marco Borraccetti, Daniela Vitiello and Mariateresa Veltri
Conclusive remarks: Conclusions - Admission and integration: Possible ways forward
Maurizio Ambrosini
