Linguistic and legal vagueness in EU Directives harmonising protection for refugees’ and displaced persons’ civil and human rights

The communication is a report on a quantitative-qualitative analysis of vagueness in EU Directives harmonising Member States’ efforts to grant refugees and displaced persons’ civil and human rights. The main focus is on linguistic and legal vagueness in the genre of directives as normative texts and on ideological implications underlying the EU’s attitude in granting specific rights to migrants. The study carries out an analysis of ‘vagueness carriers’ (adjectives, definitions and time expressions) used in relations to migrants and migrants’ rights and points to identifying a role for vagueness for and within the harmonisation process of immigration policies