Overview
- Combines micro-, meso- and macro perspectives on international transfer of norms and policies
- Develops a new framework on multi-scalar transfer processes
- Contributes to the scarce research on everyday work practices of post-communist administration
Part of the book series: The European Union in International Affairs (EUIA)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Legislative Adoption of Asylum Norms in Ukraine: A Process Driven by International Actors
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Transforming State Practices: Norm Promoters’ Multi-Scalar Adaptation to Obstacles
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Back Matter
Keywords
- European Union Politics
- Circulation of norms
- Externalisation of the reception of asylum seekers
- Non-governmental organisations (NGOs)
- Asylum Policies
- International Organizations' Normative power
- Transfer/circulation of norms and policies
- Implementation of public policies
- Street-level bureaucracy
- Post-Soviet space
- Ukraine
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Irina Mützelburg is a researcher at the Centre for East European and International Studies in Berlin, Germany. Her research interests include NGO-donor relations, administrative practices, and migration and education policies. She has taught at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the European University Viadrina, Germany, and Sciences Po Lyon, France.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transferring Asylum Norms to EU Neighbours
Book Subtitle: Multi-Scalar Policies and Practices in Ukraine
Authors: Irina Mützelburg
Series Title: The European Union in International Affairs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04528-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04527-1Published: 09 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04530-1Published: 10 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-04528-8Published: 08 November 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-5911
Series E-ISSN: 2662-592X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 249
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Politics, International Organization, Public Policy