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Asian Migrants in Europe: the Need for a Global Perspective

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Europe—Asia Relations

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Abstract

Over the past ten years Asian migration to the European Union (EU) has gradually gained in importance as an area of policy making.1 The Amsterdam Treaty (1997, enacted in 1999) and the Tampere Council (1999) are the most important hallmarks of this trend: they reflect the widely felt need among policy makers at the top of the EU, in particular within the European Commission, to liberalize external migration and thus fulfil the EU’s fundamental commitment to the principles of liberal democracy (Angenendt and Hernandez, 2004, p. 3; Batistella, 2002). Nevertheless, progress is slow, and EU policies have retained their defensive character: they serve to control and restrain external migration flows rather than facilitate them (Angenendt and Hernandez, 2004, pp. 6–8; Angenendt and Kruse, 2004, pp. 100–1).

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  1. School of Government, Peking University, China

    Richard Balme (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Lingnan University, Hong Kong

    Brian Bridges (Professor of Politics) (Professor of Politics)

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Douw, L. (2008). Asian Migrants in Europe: the Need for a Global Perspective. In: Balme, R., Bridges, B. (eds) Europe—Asia Relations. Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583467_6

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