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Family related migration has been the dominant legal mode of entry in Europe for the past decades. Traditionally, granting migrants the right to family union has been considered as promoting their integration into receiving societies.
Objectives
• To analyse family migration policies in 9 European countries (Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain and the UK) from two perspectives:
• “top-down” approach – analyses legislation, public debates and expert interviews in the context of policies and policy-making of family related migration.
• “bottom-up” approach – investigates the impact of conditionalities and restrictions on migrants and their families and the responses and strategies migrants adopt to cope with these and to organise their family lives.
Outcomes
The project provides evidences that:
• Family related modes of entry have been increasingly subject to restrictions, while existing conditionalities have been tightened up.
• In current debates about ethnic closure of migrant communities and the alleged “failure” of integration, the “migrant family” is increasingly seen as an obstacle to integration, as a site characterised by patriarchal relationships and illiberal practices and traditions such as arranged and forced marriages.
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