CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Maib, Evelyn Deborah |
|---|---|
| Title | European Asylum Policy and NGOs: Advocacy Strategies and Factors of Influence |
| Summary | The European Union is developing a European asylum system with common standards for the protection of refugees in Europe. However, refugee-supporting NGOs criticize restrictive European asylum policies that are being adopted into EU law. Several NGOs on the European level therefore try to advocate for more liberal asylum policies. The European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE), a European network of refugee-assisting NGOs, is one of these NGOs lobbying the European institutions. This paper aims at analysing the different advocacy strategies that ECRE and other NGOs employ and the factors that influence the success of their strategies in order to gain a more differentiated understanding of the workings of NGOs on the European level and the determinants of their influence. As a case of advocacy failure, the detention provisions of the 2008 Returns Directive will be scrutinized. In contrast, as an example of success, the advocacy for more European engagement in resettlement will be examined. This paper argues that particularly issues with a high degree of conflict between different stakeholders are predisposed to be less amenable to NGO influence, as a high degree of conflict leads to conflicting positions of the different stakeholders from the very beginning. |
| Supervisor | Nagy, Boldizsar |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/maib_evelyn.pdf |
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