Collective Assistance or Collective Negligence? The EU-Turkey Statement and the EU's Legacy of Migration Policy Externalization
[Thesis]
Barber, Samuel Scott
Tasar, Eren
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2020
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M.A.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2020
This thesis analyzes the 2016 EU-Turkey Statement and, in particular, the ways in which externalization manifested as a primary means of coping with the Refugee Crisis. It then positions this response in context of the European Union's historical approach toward migration policy beginning with the Barcelona Process in 1995. Specifically, I analyze the 2016 EU-Turkey Statement, the 1995 Barcelona Declaration, the 2005 Turkey National Action Plan for Adoption of the EU Acquis and subsequent 2006 Progress Report, as well as the Law on Foreigners and International Protection and its by-law the Temporary Protection Resolution. It then considers the extent to which the externalization mechanisms found in the 2016 EU-Turkey Statement were either a singular response to a particular crisis, or a long-practiced mechanism in European Union migration governance.