Borders and the EU legitimacy problem: the 2015–16 European Refugee Crisis.

TY - JOUR

T1 - Borders and the EU legitimacy problem

T2 - the 2015–16 European Refugee Crisis.

AU - Nedergaard, Peter

PY - 2019/1/2

Y1 - 2019/1/2

N2 - The porous external border around the Schengen member states of the European Union (EU) became a colossal political problem in 2015 and 2016 as the migrant and Refugee Crisis unfolded. In Beetham’s seminal terminology, there was a crisis between the EU’s power and legitimacy on all three dimensions hereof: The Dublin regime was not followed, there was a gap between the beliefs of the governing and the subordinate peoples, and there were increasingly critical views among citizens and politicians alike (even from mainstream parties) against the inflow of refugees and migrants outside of the normal asylum system. The behaviour of the EU actors since then can be interpreted as an attempt at containing this crisis as regards Beetham’s legitimacy dimensions.

AB - The porous external border around the Schengen member states of the European Union (EU) became a colossal political problem in 2015 and 2016 as the migrant and Refugee Crisis unfolded. In Beetham’s seminal terminology, there was a crisis between the EU’s power and legitimacy on all three dimensions hereof: The Dublin regime was not followed, there was a gap between the beliefs of the governing and the subordinate peoples, and there were increasingly critical views among citizens and politicians alike (even from mainstream parties) against the inflow of refugees and migrants outside of the normal asylum system. The behaviour of the EU actors since then can be interpreted as an attempt at containing this crisis as regards Beetham’s legitimacy dimensions.

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - EU

KW - Refugee Crisis

KW - borders

KW - Frontex

KW - Schengen

KW - normative Europe

U2 - 10.1080/01442872.2018.1533112

DO - 10.1080/01442872.2018.1533112

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0144-2872

VL - 40

SP - 80

EP - 91

JO - Policy Studies

JF - Policy Studies

IS - 1

ER -