Latin American Reactions to the Adoption of the Returns Directive

The European Union has had a clear-cut competency to deal with immigration since the entry into force of the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1999. Since then, addressing irregular immigration, including the repatriation of irregular residents, has been a central part of the EU’s common immigration policy. Th...

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Main Author Acosta Arcarazo, Diego
Format Paper
LanguageEnglish
Published Belgium CEPS Centre for European Policy Studies 2009
SeriesCEPS Papers in LIBERTY and SECURITY in Europe
Subjects
EU-Accession
EU-DEvelopment
International relations
Migration Studies
trade
EU
Immigration
Adoption of the Returns Directive
Latin America
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Summary:The European Union has had a clear-cut competency to deal with immigration since the entry into force of the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1999. Since then, addressing irregular immigration, including the repatriation of irregular residents, has been a central part of the EU’s common immigration policy. The EU always defended the idea that an effective returns policy was key to ensuring public support for other elements in the policy, such as legal migration and asylum.