Activism, NGOs and the State: Multilevel Responses to Immigration Politics in Europe - Softcover

Schynder, Melissa

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ISBN 10: 1783484209 ISBN 13: 9781783484201

Verlag: Rli, 2015

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Examines how cross-national differences in policies affecting migrants and refugees impact forms of cooperation among Ngos as they establish transnational social movement networks.

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Melissa Schnyder is professor of global security and international relations at American Public University.

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Activism, NGOs, and the State

Multilevel Responses to Immigration Politics in Europe

By Melissa Schnyder

Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd.

Copyright © 2015 Melissa Schnyder
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-78348-420-1

Contents

Contents, 
List of Key Abbreviations, 
Acknowledgments, 
Introduction, 
Chapter 1: The Nation-State and NGO Political Activity, 
Chapter 2: Domestic Opportunities and Constraints, 
Chapter 3: Cooperation along Two Dimensions, 
Chapter 4: Asymmetries within the Movement, 
Chapter 5: Cooperation within the State, 
Chapter 6: Cooperation beyond the State, 
Chapter 7: NGOs as Multilevel Actors, 
Data Appendix, 
Notes, 
References, 

CHAPTER 1

The Nation-State and NGO Political Activity

On May 7, 2012, the European Council on Refugees and Exiles and Amnesty International submitted a coordinated appeal — "Not crossing red lines — A negotiator's checklist on minimum detention safeguards" — to the European Commission, Council of Ministers, and European Parliament, the three most important policymaking institutions of the European Union (EU). Calling on the EU to uphold a list of safeguards on the detention of asylum seekers, the appeal was signed by 166 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) representing various interests and active at different levels of governance. It states: "This list reflects the undersigning organisations' shared positions on the standards and guarantees that need to be included as a minimum in EU law to prevent arbitrary detention of asylum seekers. This is without prejudice to the position of individual organisations on the need for additional guarantees on detention in their respective national contexts." The checklist of minimum detention safeguards represents a cooperative, joint action comprising 149 national organizations across thirty-two countries, as well as ten international organizations and seven EU-level organizations, and was taken to inform the negotiations on the European Union's recast Reception Conditions Directive and the Dublin Regulation.

The example above highlights a phenomenon that has been widely observed and written about in the social movement literature — that of transnational cooperation. The ways in which groups coordinate joint efforts across borders has become an increasingly popular topic of study over the past two decades, as globalization processes increase interconnectedness and facilitate international exchange, helping to establish transnational networks of activists (Keck and Sikkink 1998, 1999; Tarrow 2005). Generally, scholars who study transnational activism focus on the ways in which domestic actors mobilize beyond the confines of their own nation-states to participate in cooperative collective action with other like-minded actors as a strategy for advancing their claims. Case studies of transnational activism underscore that it is quite varied in its nature and character, taking on a variety of forms and involving a diverse array of actors and issue areas.

Although non-governmental organizations are central actors in transnational political activism, the phenomenon involves a wider range of actors, including (but certainly not limited to) trade unions (Colquhoun and Martin 2001); diaspora communities (Danese 1998; Koopmans and Statham 2001; Tarrow 2005); the media, churches, and certain branches of government and intergovernmental organizations (Keck and Sikkink 1999); as well as networks of individual citizen activists (Arquilla 2009; Keck and Sikkink 1998). The issue sectors in relation to

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• Verlag: Rli
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1783484209
• ISBN 13: 9781783484201
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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