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Schengen Visa Implementation and Transnational Policymaking

Bordering Europe

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  • © 2019

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Authors:
  1. Federica Infantino

    1. FNRS, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

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  • Focuses on the understudied topic of everyday implementation of EU visa policy, using a comparative perspective
  • Presents comprehensive and original research on the visa policies of France, Belgium and Italy
  • Provides a fascinating cross-section of policy-making at the local, national and supranational levels

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Federica Infantino
    Pages 1-31

  3. Texts and Contexts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
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    2. Schengen Visa Policy-Making: Shifting Competence While Authorizing Discretion

      • Federica Infantino
      Pages 35-65

    3. Morocco: One ‘Third Country’ but Three National Contexts

      • Federica Infantino
      Pages 67-101

    4. The National Sense Making of EU Visa Policy

      • Federica Infantino
      Pages 103-121

  4. Bordering in Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123
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    2. The Politics of Management

      • Federica Infantino
      Pages 125-154

    3. Policy Work in Visa Sections

      • Federica Infantino
      Pages 155-176

    4. The Making of Decisions

      • Federica Infantino
      Pages 177-215

    5. Transnational Policy-Making from Below

      • Federica Infantino
      Pages 217-236

    6. Conclusions

      • Federica Infantino
      Pages 237-245

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 247-267
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About this book

This book examines the timely topic of controlling the borders of the European Schengen Area. It considers the state perspective on border regulation, subjecting day-to-day practices of EU visa policy implementation to close analytical scrutiny. The objects of the analysis are three European Member States—France, Belgium, and Italy—that implement EU visa policy in Morocco, a country whose nationals are considered to be a migratory ‘risk’ for the EU. The book focuses on the implementation of EU visa policy in the consulates of Belgium, France and Italy in Casablanca. The empirical research and the comparative perspective make this book distinct. The book uses a ‘comprehensive implementation approach’ by taking account of the local, national and supranational locations of policy-making. It builds on in-depth pioneering fieldwork and a comparative research design that includes those three locations. The research design has determined the evolving of the puzzle and the realizing of the unanticipated: cross-national differences diminish when policy is put into practice. Extensive research into the visa sections of those EU Member States provides highly original material that sheds light on the obscure black box of EU visa policy implementation, therefore contributing to policy studies, migration studies, and studies on the European Union.

Authors and Affiliations

  • FNRS, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

    Federica Infantino

About the author

Federica Infantino is Research Fellow of the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. She also teaches the course ‘Border and Migration Control’ at the Institute for European Studies, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

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