The EU’s Policy on the Integration of Migrants

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem

   Pages 1-29

3. Setting the Scene: History of a Competence and Analytical Framework

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   Pages 31-57

4. Explaining the Genesis of a Policy

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   Pages 59-99

5. The European Integration Fund: Principles, Decision-Making and Output

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   Pages 101-131

6. Why Implement Without a Tangible Threat? the Effect of a Soft Instrument on National Migrant Integration Policies

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   Pages 133-161

7. Capacity or Preferences? Explaining the Implementation of the European Integration Fund

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8. Conclusion: EU Integration Policy or EU Policy on Integration?

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   Pages 187-197

9. Back Matter

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This book addresses a timely, yet largely overlooked, issue in political science: the integration of migrants in a multilevel polity. In a context characterised by the increasing salience of migration-related questions, and despite the gradual construction of a European Union immigration policy over the past two decades, no competence was ever created on integration matters. The emergence of a consistent ensemble of soft instruments in this policy realm in the 2000s unveiled an original pattern of EU policy formation. Can there be Europeanization without an EU competence? That is the question this original piece of research tackles. It shows how the way in which the policy emerged at EU level affected policy outputs adopted thereafter throughout the policy cycle. Mixing qualitative and quantitative methods, it explains the development of the EU integration policy and examines its main policy device, the European Integration Fund, from negotiation to implementation.

• europeanization
• soft law
• multilevel governance
• third country nationals
• political community
• integration policy
• actor-centred institutionalism
• actor-constellations
• composite actor
• aggregate actor
• immigration policy
• security paradigm
• unanimity
• social inclusion paradigm
• bargaining
• European Integration Fund
• Implementation
• public opinion
• civil society organisations
• Asylum
• european union politics

• Fondazione ISMU and University of Milan, Milan, Italy

  Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem

Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem is Honorary Fellow at the Centre for European Governance, University of Exeter, UK. He currently works as a researcher for Fondazione ISMU and collaborates with various universities. Dr. Van Wolleghem’s research focuses on Europeanization and migration policies.

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