CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Bagameri, Daniel |
|---|---|
| Title | Changing Integration Policy towards Third-Country Nationals in the European Union: Integration Conditions |
| Summary | The thesis has investigated the conditions that have recently been put in practice by the Member States of the European Union (EU) in the name of integration. For third-country nationals (TCNs), the acquisition of certain legal statuses has been made conditional upon the fulfilment of various language and/or knowledge of the society tests. The new European trend clearly demonstrates the transformation of the integration concept into a restrictive, unilateral understanding that seems to prevail among the Member States. It has been argued that in contemporary Europe, integration functions as a tool for practising an immigration policy aimed at limiting the legal channels of international human mobility and the inclusion and security of TCNs inside the EU. The restrictive categories are not the characteristics of the nation states only as the EU level has also started abandoning its original approach of equal rights and non-discrimination. The thesis has presented several points of criticism directed at the integration tests. The major concerns revolve around the issue that immigrants have to internalise the host society’s values and ways of life and to develop a disposition, containing emotional, rational, and behavioural elements. It has been concluded by this analysis that EU Member States seem to be trapped in the paradox of liberalism by embracing illiberal policies that violate the same values they seek to protect. |
| Supervisor | Nagy, Boldizsar |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/bagameri_daniel.pdf |
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