Overview
- Examines the experience of small states in Europe during the 2015–2016 migration crisis
- Highlights the challenges small states and the European Union faced in addressing the massive irregular flow of migrants and refugees into Europe and the Schengen Area
- Shows that no matter if we view the migration crisis as a crisis for the European Union or Europe as a whole, this was a crisis for small states in Europe
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This edited book examines the experience of small states in Europe during the 2015–2016 migration crisis. The contributions highlight the challenges small states and the European Union faced in addressing the massive irregular flow of migrants and refugees into Europe and the Schengen Area. Small states adopted a number of coping strategies and proved relatively effective in navigating the storm they faced. Externally they pursued strategies of shelter-seeking, hiding, hedging and norm entrepreneurship, while domestically they tended to securitize migration and to pursue scapegoating by blaming the EU and other states for the nature and magnitude of the crisis. During this crisis management, their small administrations proved resilient and flexible in their responses, despite suffering from limited resources and being subject to the shifting preferences of stronger actors. This book shows that independent of whether we view the migration crisis as a crisis for the European Union or Europe as a whole, or how we interpret the intensity and severity of the crisis, this was a crisis for small states in Europe. The crisis disrupted the liberal and institutionalized order upon which small states in the region had increasingly based their policies and influence for more than 60 years.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction and Framework
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Small States and the Current Political Turmoil Related to Immigration
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On the Frontline: The Experiences of the Border States
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Waving Them on? The Experiences of Peripheral States
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Conclusion
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Tómas Joensen is Researcher and Program Manager at the Centre for Small State Studies, Institute of International Affairs, University of Iceland
Ian Taylor is Professor of International Relations and African Political Economy at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Small States and the European Migrant Crisis
Book Subtitle: Politics and Governance
Editors: Tómas Joensen, Ian Taylor
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66203-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66202-8Published: 27 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66205-9Published: 28 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-66203-5Published: 26 April 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 293
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Relations Theory, Globalization, Public Policy