The EU, migration and contestation: the UN Global Compact for Migration, from consensus to dissensus

The 2015 migration crisis has shaken the EU system to the point that no agreement on the matter was possible. In this line, it was decided to bring to the international level the need to agree on a migration norm: the UN Global Compact for Migration. This article analyses the EU and Member States dy...

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Autor: Badell Sánchez, Diego
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/46570
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Palabra clave:Contestation
Migration
Multilateralism
EU foreign policy
Internal dynamics
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spelling The EU, migration and contestation: the UN Global Compact for Migration, from consensus to dissensusBadell Sánchez, DiegoContestationMigrationMultilateralismEU foreign policyInternal dynamicsThe 2015 migration crisis has shaken the EU system to the point that no agreement on the matter was possible. In this line, it was decided to bring to the international level the need to agree on a migration norm: the UN Global Compact for Migration. This article analyses the EU and Member States dynamics of dissent vis-à-vis substantive and procedural norms. It shows the existence of four structural factors within EU foreign policy that enhances consensus. That is the existence of a common position on the matter, the expert culture constraining the behaviour of parties, the EU community of practices and the role of the chair. The presence of these factors explain why the EU contained Hungary’s objections to the Compact, but its absence also explains the domino effect triggered by the Austrian withdrawal. At the end, EU norms such as effective multilateralism and sincere cooperation were contested.This work was supported by the EU-NormCon research project (Normative contestation in Europe: Implications for the EU in a hanging global order) funded by the National R + D Plan of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (grant number CSO2016-79205-P), by the COST Action ENTER (EU Foreign Policy Facing New Realities, grant number CA17119), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), and by the FPI Scholarship (grant number BES-2017-079692) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Competitiveness.Taylor & Francis202120212021info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/46570http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23340460.2020.1871301reponame:Repositorio Digital de la UPFinstname:Universitat Pompeu FabraInglésGlobal Affairs. 2021 Jan 17;6(4-5):347-62info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/CSO2016-79205-P© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/465702026-06-12T07:21:37Z
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title The EU, migration and contestation: the UN Global Compact for Migration, from consensus to dissensus
spellingShingle The EU, migration and contestation: the UN Global Compact for Migration, from consensus to dissensus
Badell Sánchez, Diego
Contestation
Migration
Multilateralism
EU foreign policy
Internal dynamics
title_short The EU, migration and contestation: the UN Global Compact for Migration, from consensus to dissensus
title_full The EU, migration and contestation: the UN Global Compact for Migration, from consensus to dissensus
title_fullStr The EU, migration and contestation: the UN Global Compact for Migration, from consensus to dissensus
title_full_unstemmed The EU, migration and contestation: the UN Global Compact for Migration, from consensus to dissensus
title_sort The EU, migration and contestation: the UN Global Compact for Migration, from consensus to dissensus
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Badell Sánchez, Diego
author Badell Sánchez, Diego
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Contestation
Migration
Multilateralism
EU foreign policy
Internal dynamics
topic Contestation
Migration
Multilateralism
EU foreign policy
Internal dynamics
description The 2015 migration crisis has shaken the EU system to the point that no agreement on the matter was possible. In this line, it was decided to bring to the international level the need to agree on a migration norm: the UN Global Compact for Migration. This article analyses the EU and Member States dynamics of dissent vis-à-vis substantive and procedural norms. It shows the existence of four structural factors within EU foreign policy that enhances consensus. That is the existence of a common position on the matter, the expert culture constraining the behaviour of parties, the EU community of practices and the role of the chair. The presence of these factors explain why the EU contained Hungary’s objections to the Compact, but its absence also explains the domino effect triggered by the Austrian withdrawal. At the end, EU norms such as effective multilateralism and sincere cooperation were contested.
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