Regulating asylum: the refugee crisis and the search for common standards

Thesis

 The 2015 refugee crisis in Europe represented a major test for the Common European Asylum System (CEAS), a hybrid system combining hard and soft law methods to facilitate cooperation among EU member states. Based on in-depth, empirical scrutiny, this research asks: what does the response to the 2015 refugee crisis indicate about the potential for such hybrid structures to facilitate interstate cooperation in 'hard cases', such as refugee protection? The CEAS had been in place for ... Expand abstract

Authors: Moore, A

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-y0q6d2gdd
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: asylum; collective action; new governance; refugees; crisis
• Subjects: Refugees; International cooperation