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As EU policy makers concerned with managing immigration are aware of,
coercive measures against migrants can lead to the spiraling of illegal activity
and violence. The policy dilemma, then, that brings together domestic and
international factors appears as easy to conceptualize as it is difficult to
resolve: “the principal policy challenge is how to reduce the temptation and the
public pressure to ‘securitize’ immigration control while at the same time to
effectively manage migrant flows and unlock the social and economic potential
of migration.” 35
A Case Study: the EU
In his book on EU Foreign and Interior Policies, international relations
expert Stephan Stetter was concerned with the question whether “the EU
‘allocates’ values which construct an inside and an outside.” 36 He studied the
roles of three institutions—the European Commission, the EU Council
Secretariat, and the European Parliament—in formulating both outside
policies—towards the Middle East—and inside policies—on third country
nationals in the EU. He concluded that there was a common pattern of
evolution signaling that at the EU level international and domestic decision
making patterns cross-fertilized.
Stetter discovered that initially the European Commission’s policy
preferences on the Middle East were politically ambitious. But they were reined
in by political realities and in time replaced with a more technical, managerial
approach. The Commission concluded that its economic involvement in the
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