The Europeanisation of Refugee Policies: Between Human Rights and Internal Security

From the beginnings of intergovernmental cooperation in the 1980s to the Amsterdam Treaty and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, the developing EU refugee policies have oscillated between the conflicting policy frames of internal security on the one hand and human rights on the other. Taking a multilevel perspective on the process of Europeanization, this work highlights the entanglement between domestic asylum reforms in Germany and France and European cooperation and investigates the scope for a common refugee policy in the EU.Enlightening and innovative, this much-needed analysis of the Europeanization of asylum policies is essential reading for scholars of European integration, asylum and refugee policy and all those interested in the prospect of political unification in Europe.Sandra Lavenex is the author of 'The Europeanisation of Refugee Policies: Between Human Rights and Internal Security' with ISBN 9780754618034 and ISBN 075461803X.