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Policy Entrepreneurs of European Disintegration? The Case of Austrian Asylum Governance After 2015
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Abstract The re-establishment of border controls in the Schengen Area since 2015 and repeated contestation of the Common European Asylum System have made the policy sector of migration and asylum a topic of growing importance for European (dis)integration research. This article investigates differentiated di... view more
The re-establishment of border controls in the Schengen Area since 2015 and repeated contestation of the Common European Asylum System have made the policy sector of migration and asylum a topic of growing importance for European (dis)integration research. This article investigates differentiated disintegration and the factors that facilitate member states' counter-projects to core-EU integration trajectories. Drawing on the concept of policy entrepreneurship and based on an analysis of policy documents, we use the case of Austria to examine how the government coalition, the Austrian People’s Party, and their chairman, Sebastian Kurz, have shaped European governance of asylum and borders in the aftermath of the 2015–2016 crisis. We first show how the Austrian government performed a shift towards bilateralism and multilateralism outside the EU framework by using transnational party alliances. Second, we outline a policy discourse that justified Schengen-internal bordering based on asylum politics, which eventually served to delegitimize Schengen’s enlargement in 2022. The article contributes conceptually to understanding differentiated disintegration in the sector of migration and asylum, and points to potential drivers of this development.... view less
Keywords
Austria; European integration; asylum procedure; border protection; migration policy; political development; asylum policy
Classification
Special areas of Departmental Policy
International Relations, International Politics, Foreign Affairs, Development Policy
Free Keywords
Common European Asylum System; European disintegration; border control; policy entrepreneurship
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
Page/Pages
p. 79-90
Journal
Politics and Governance, 11 (2023) 3
Issue topic
The Causes and Modes of European Disintegration
ISSN
2183-2463
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed