REGINE. Regularisations in Europe

A large majority of EU member states currently use, or have used some sort of regularisation measure in the recent past. At the same time, regularisation is also a highly contested policy tool, raising a range of issues regarding the effectiveness of regularisation measures; the economic, fiscal and social impact of regularisation measures, the extent to which regularisations exert a pull effect on irregular migration and the relationship of regularisation with other policies on irregular migration, notably prevention and return. The present book responds to these debates surrounding regularisation. Apart from comprehensively documenting and analysing patterns of regularisation in the EU-27, it investigates possible rationales of regularisation, the impact of regularisation and the relationship of regularisation to the wider policy framework on migration and asylum.The research for this book was funded by the European Commission under Tender JLS/B4/2007/05