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Costello, Cathryn --- "Administrative Governance and the Europeanisation of Asylum and Immigration Policy" [2006] ELECD 280; in Hofmann, C.H. Herwig; Türk, H. Alexander (eds), "EU Administrative Governance" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006)

Book Title: EU Administrative Governance

Editor(s): Hofmann, C.H. Herwig; Türk, H. Alexander

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781845422851

Section: Chapter 9

Section Title: Administrative Governance and the Europeanisation of Asylum and Immigration Policy

Author(s): Costello, Cathryn

Number of pages: 54

Extract:

9. Administrative governance and the
Europeanisation of asylum and
immigration policy
Cathryn Costello

INTRODUCTION

This chapter examines administrative governance in asylum and immigration
policy. Since the entry into force of the Treaty of Amsterdam, the area has
been characterised by frenetic EC legislative activity. The resultant legislative
measures are examined here, as well as the particular administrative
structures they create. The chapter also considers the broader issue of
Europeanisation of asylum and immigration policy.
Europeanisation may be understood as `a process of change in national
institutional and policy practices that can be attributed to European
integration.'1 It is a two-way process. `European integration shapes domestic
policies, politics and polities, but Member States also "project themselves"
by seeking to shape the trajectory of European integration.'2 There are
many forms of Europeanisation. For example, there may be a common
policy set at the European level, with which Member States must comply.
In contrast, in other fields, the EU operates by way of negative integration,
requiring mutual recognition of different national rules and systems, rather
than establishing comprehensive common policies. To this classic typology
of positive and negative integration must be added a third aspect of
Europeanisation, whereby the European level provides a frame of reference,
in the form of common assumptions, principles and practices, which allow
Member States' practices to converge, whilst retaining the appearance of
domestic autonomy and indeed accountability.3
Asylum and immigration policy are characterised by a complex mixture
of all three aspects of Europeanisation. This ...