CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Kosmina, Katarina |
|---|---|
| Title | Security versus Humanitarianism: Normative Clashes within the Common European Asylum System |
| Summary | The normative landscape of Europe is plagued with dilemmas of how to address the increasing humanitarian concerns, embodied by processes such as the continual influx of asylum seekers, and protect the law and order of the European Union through security measures. The Common European Asylum System was developed to ensure improved and harmonized protection standards for the incoming asylum seekers. Yet, this legislative package has been criticized for its deficiencies, suspect treatment of asylum seekers, and its overall inability to effectively address the rising number of asylum applications in the territory of the European Union. How do these defects emerge within the legislation intended to address humanitarian concerns? Given the extent of perceived security threats and the prevalence of security mechanisms, it has crept into most domestic and international policy schemes. Policy and legislation concerning asylum seekers, as this thesis will demonstrate in the European context, has not been an exception. The hypothesis of this thesis is that security mechanisms and humanitarian advocacy are not compatible processes within asylum legislation, and that this incompatibility manifests itself through normative clashes. Through document analysis comparing the first and second phase CEAS legislation, this thesis uncovers several considerable normative clashes. By focusing on the Eurodac Regulation recast, detailed analysis reveals that security norms are expanding at the cost for humanitarian norms. In addition to outlining the outcomes of these normative clashes, this thesis discusses implications these outcomes have on asylum seekers and humanitarian norm entrepreneurs. |
| Supervisor | Boldizsár Nagy |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/kosmina_katarina.pdf |
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