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EU Migration Management and the Social Purpose of European Integration

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This chapter explains the agenda of this book and highlights why migration is a arguably a critical case study for understanding the social purpose of European integration. It addresses the following reasons for this being the case: (1) irregular migration challenges the viability of the Schengen system; (2) the EU’s social purpose may be revealed by exploring how the EU governance apparatus treats the weakest members of its society; (3) the failure to integration irregular migrants represents the EU’s failure as a civilising project. Furthermore, the chapter outlines the contents of this book and provides a brief summary of each chapter.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The term irregular migrants is used throughout this book to refer to asylum seekers, undocumented migrants and refugees. Asylum seekers are people who have submitted an asylum application. Undocumented migrants are people who reside in the EU illegally without a valid residency permit. Refugees have successfully applied for asylum.

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    The idea of ‘normative power Europe’ was presented by Ian Manners in 2002. He argued that rather than as a military power, we should think of the EU as a ‘normative power’, which aims to reproduce its own ethical principles across the globe.

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    Within this context, positivism refers to an understanding of social science as being in essence no different from natural science.

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Köpping Athanasopoulos, H. (2020). Introduction. In: EU Migration Management and the Social Purpose of European Integration. IMISCOE Research Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42040-6_1

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