External Migration Governance of the European Union
Abstract
The paper studies the dynamics of EU external migration governance in the EU external migration policy. The external migration policy of the EU is characterized by the implementation of the conceptual framework of the Global Approach to Migration, which is based on the integration of migration issues in the EU external relations and on strengthening cooperation with partner countries. The aim of the study is to empirically describe the form of EU external migration governance on the four platforms of cooperation: the European Neighbourhood Policy, the Eastern Partnership, the Euro-African dialogue on migration and development and the Prague Process. The paper concludes that despite the fact that the latest developments are moving toward a preference for fighting against illegal migration in the neighborhood of the EU, there is a dynamic development in more remote regional platforms of cooperation, which represents a balanced horizontal partnership guided by principles of the Global Approach to Migration.
Keywords
European Union, external migration policy, Global Approach to Migration, third countries, Eastern Partnership, European Neighbourhood Policy
Author Biography
Jaroslava Gahurová
Born in 1982, she completed a bachelor's degree in political science and European studies at the Faculty of Arts at Palacký University in Olomouc. She earned her master's degree at the Faculty of Social Studies at the University of Helsinki. She recently completed a doctoral program in political science at the Institute of Political Science at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University, where she lectures on the Nations and Migration course. Since 2007, she has been working at the Department of Asylum and Migration Policy of the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic, focusing on the external dimension of EU migration policy.