Transferring asylum norms to EU neighbours : multi-scalar policies and practices in Ukraine
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Transferring asylum norms to EU neighbours : multi-scalar policies and practices in Ukraine
(European Union in international affairs / series editors, Sebastian Oberthür ... [et al.])
Palgrave Macmillan, c2022
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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.
Table of Contents
Part I. The Formal Adoption of Asylum Norms in Ukraine: A Process Under the Influence of International Actors
Chapter 1. An Unfavourable Domestic Context for the Development of Asylum Policies
Chapter 2. From Shallow to Deep Legislative Adoption of International Norms: Political Interests and the Strength of the Norms
Chapter 3. From Shallow to Deep Adoption of International Norms: International Organisations' Normative Power
Part II. Modalities and Volatility of the Transformations of State Practises: Norm Entrepreneurs' Adaptive Strategies
Chapter 4. Policy Implementation between Top-Down Obstacles, Street-Level Bureaucrats' Heterogeneous Responses and Use of Formal Norms
Chapter 5. Unstable Norm Transfer from Externally Created NGO-Norm Entrepreneurs to State Officials through Direct Interactions
Chapter 6. Norm Promoters' Adaptive Strategies: Resorting to Hierarchies and State 'Passeurs' to Overcome Resistance
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