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With the flow of refugees showing no sign of abating, European states - and civil society - continue to look to the EU for a comprehensive asylum policy. Here is a thoroughly researched book that not only investigates the existing institutional patterns that might successfully engender such a policy, but also focuses on the sensitive element of the refugee plight as an essential component of the protection of human rights within the Western democratic model. Beginning with a survey of the international foundations of refugee protection (such as the 1951 Geneva Convention and the UNHCR) and the way they have evolved over the last four decades, the author analyses the initial attempts of EC countries to co-ordinate their asylum measures through the European Political Co-operation and the later Schengen arrangements. Proceeding with an assessment of the operating structures set up for asylum co-ordination under the Maastricht Treaty and the EU initiatives that were undertaken within the Third Pillar framework - and the particular problems that they presented - she continues by analysing in detail the new complex asylum framework that emerged in 1997 with the Amsterdam Treaty. The role

Author

Ingrid Boccardi

Publisher

The Hague ; New York: Kluwer Law International

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9789041176066

Subjects

Law