Labour Immigration Policy in the EU: A Renewed Agenda for Europe 2020

CEPS Policy Brief No. 240

15 Pages Posted: 29 Jun 2017

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Sergio Carrera

Centre for European Policy Studies

Anaïs Faure Atger

Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

Elspeth Guild

Radboud University Nijmegen - Faculty of Law; Kingsley Napley - Department of Immigration; The British Institute of International and Comparative Law; London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)

Date Written: April 28, 2011

Abstract

The EU’s capacity to implement a legitimate and coherent policy on labour immigration that complies with the rights of migrants faces enormous challenges in light of the political priorities set in the EU’s 2020 Strategy and the effects of the recent revolutions and war in North Africa. This Policy Brief examines the incoherencies characterising the current generation of EU labour immigration policies and the challenges of ensuring a global rights-based approach to migration. The analysis carried out in this paper is accompanied by a synthesis of the main policy recommendations discussed at the Workshop on “The Next Phase of EU Labour Immigration Policy: Enhancing Policy Coherence and Advancing a Rights-Based Approach” organised in the context of the Conference “State of the Union: Brussels Think Tank Dialogue 2011” in January 2011.

Keywords: labour, immigration, labour immigration, migrant, migration

Suggested Citation

Carrera, Sergio and Atger, Anaïs Faure and Guild, Elspeth, Labour Immigration Policy in the EU: A Renewed Agenda for Europe 2020 (April 28, 2011). CEPS Policy Brief No. 240, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1898653

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