A presentation by Dr. Sergio Carrera (CEPS), Dr. Raluca Radescu (CEPS) and Dr. Natasja Reslow (Maastricht University) at a EURA-NET project meeting in Budapest 17 October 2015.

1. 3.1: A Preliminary Mapping of Actors,
Priorities and Instruments in EU-Asia
Relations
Sergio Carrera, CEPS
Raluca Radescu, CEPS
Natasja Reslow, Maastricht University

2. Outline
1. Task 3.1: Mapping Actors and Instruments in
External Dimensions of EU Migration Policies
2. Research Design & Policy Background
3. Legal and Policy Instruments shaping the EU’s
external dimension
4. A preliminary mapping of the supranational Actors
involved in delivering EU’s migration policies

3. TASK 3.1: RESEARCH DESIGN
When home
affairs part of
international
relations
External
governance and
Venue Shopping
Contested and
Limited EU Legal
Competence
Conditionality &
Differentiation:
Readmission and
Borders
No Legal channels
and Labour
Immigration
CHANGE? What is
the current state
of affairs?
Lisbon
Treaty &
NEW
Commission
/ EEAS

4. TASK 3.1: RESEARCH DESIGN: HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE
EXTERNAL DIMENSIONS?
EU
ACTORS
Setting
of
Priorities
Legal
Acts
Approaches
Policy
Tools

5. TASK 3.1: RESEARCH DESIGN: HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE
EXTERNAL DIMENSIONS?
QUESTION1
Who are the
actors?
What are the
instruments
and tools?
QUESTION2
What are the
outputs and
approaches to
mobility?
What gaps and
deficits in
policies
(Accountability
and Rights)?
QUESTION3
Which kind of
‘temporary
migration’
opportunities?
‘Securitized’ or
‘Desecuritized’
temporariness?

6. ‘ASYLUM CRISIS’: EU RESPONSES
EXTERNAL
MIGRATION POLICY
OUTPUT & APPROACH
Cooperation with
Neighbouring and
Third Countries
• Return and Readmission Agreements
• Prevent asylum seekers from entering
• Joint Border Control (e.g. Frontex)
• Conditionality: migration control in
exchange of funding (‘more for more’)
• Development cooperation in exchange of
EU migration control policy abroad
• High Level Dialogues and Conferences
• Legal immigration?

7. Report Task 3.1 - Overview
SECTION DESCRIPTION
1. Introduction Origins and Rationales:
• Schengen: Insecurity and Venue Shopping
• Integrating Migration Policies in EU External
Relations: Temporary Migration as Incentive for
Readmission? ‘securitized temporariness’
2. GAMM and
European Agenda on
Migration
• GAMM Explained: Scope, Geographical
Priorities and Tools
• European Migration Agenda: ‘Whose’
Agenda?
3. When ‘EU Migration
Policy’ goes abroad:
On Policy and Legal
Instruments
• Legal instruments
• Policy tools
• Political Dialogues and Instruments
• Policy Processes
• Accompanying Policy Tools
• Projects and Programmes

8. Report Task 3.1 - Overview
SECTION DESCRIPTION
4. EU External
Migration Policies:
Institutions and
Actors
• Who are the main institutions and actors
shaping and driving the externalisation of EU
migration policies?
• The kind of approaches prioritized and
outputs delivered
5. Conclusions • Implications of the EU external migration
policy as it stands: what does this mapping
provide and what is the way forward in WP3?

9. Map of the EU external migration policy around the world

10. Map of the EU external migration policy in Asia
Budapest Process
Afghanistan
Prague
Process
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Uzbekistan
Azerbaijan
MP
Jordan
Pakistan
Readmission
Hong Kong
Macao
Sri Lanka
Visa facilitation,
migration mission,
Frontex Working
Arrangement, and
Eastern Partnership
Migration
profile
Palestinian Territories
Syria
Dialogue on Migration, Mobility and Security
Lebanon
Israel Association
Agreement
ENP
Turkmenistan
Iraq
Philippines
PCA
EU-China
JMDI
Sri Lanka
Indonesia
Mongolia
Singapore
Thailand
Vietnam

11. 4. A preliminary mapping of the European Commission and EEAS actors
involved in delivering EU’s migration policies

12. European Commission and EEAS actors involved in delivering EU’s migration
policies and the roles and instruments made available