European and National Migration Policy in the Shadow of Populism through the Lens of Administrative Measures: Germany and Italy Compared between 2015-2019

Friedery, Réka and Crescenzi, Andrea (2023) European and National Migration Policy in the Shadow of Populism through the Lens of Administrative Measures: Germany and Italy Compared between 2015-2019. JOURNAL OF IDENTITY AND MIGRATION STUDIES, 17 (2). pp. 2-16. ISSN 1843-5610

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Abstract

The paper explores a major conflict area, namely, national and the EU’s immigration policy and investigates how the influx of migrants (mostly from the Middle East and North Africa - MENA region) into the EU has been used as a policy conflict ground. The article assesses the policy responses to (im)migration in Germany and Italy between 2015- 2019 as the changes made redirected the policy for future migration crisis. The aim of the article is to underline that the migration crisis of the EU spiraled into Members States’ migration and populism crisis and into the challenges of the implementation of common EU migration policies and national policies. This is achieved by the analyses of administrative measures adopted in the most argued areas like asylum procedure, return policy and integration The paper argues that these crisis management measures were mostly restrictive, and not only aimed to handle the crisis but exposed a phenomenon: they not only intended to thwart the continuous growth of migration and populism but were in parts even favored by populists in the sense that they had the intention to curb immigration, too.

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