Bahadir, a: Development Of The Eu Asylum Policy

Although refugee protection constitutes an important component of human right committments of states, it has often been subordinated to the migration and security concerns of states. In the face of huge migratory pressures at their doors, wealthy western states each day are devising new mecanisms and legislations to strenghten the barriers against migrants. However this exclusionary attitude also kept against asylum seekers, which is against both the spirit of world refugee protection system and the loud human right committments of these states. The EU has been a crucial platform for institutionalization of this externalizing tendency against refugees with serious implications for the general perception and future of refugee protection regime. This study, therefore examines the scope and impact of the access prevention tendencies in the development of EU asylum policy until 2004. In this respect, the study extensively deals with the pre-entry and the post-entry access prevention measures which act to serve to preventing the access of refugees to the EU territories. The analysis should be useful for refugees rights related human rights institutions and researchers.