European migration regimes: Emerging, enlarging and deteriorating

As European states increasingly turn toward multilateral cooperation in asylum policy and border control, a regime governing migration to the European Union is emerging. Central and East European states are also preparing to join this emerging EU migration regime by incorporating the Justice and Home Affairs acquis communautaire into their laws, and strengthening their administrative systems to implement new migration laws. At the same time that member states attempt to control the inflow of more migrants through multinational cooperation some member states are trying to increase the naturalisation of those already resident by permitting dual nationality. The new Council of Europe Convention on Nationality marks a shift away from longstanding international norms against dual nationality. The simultaneous emergence of an international regime governing migration to the EU, the influence of this regime on migration policy making in Eastern and Central Europe and the decline of the regime which helps European states delineate their boundaries demographically vividly demonstrates a transformation of sovereignty in the emerging European polity.