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Facing 2020: developing a new European agenda for immigration and asylum policy, Elizabeth Collett, Migration Policy Institute Europe, February 2013"... Too often, policy development has been constrained by what has gone before, building on shaky foundations rather than acknowledging weaknesses and addressing fundamentals. This is not surprising in a policy area in which competence to formulate policy is so frequently contested. In addition, the experience of negotiating harmonising legislation on immigration and asylum has leftMemberStatesand the European Commission exhausted and cynical. The new agenda must be able to pose the questions: does existing policy make sense, and what else might be considered? If leaders are unable to dispel the belief that an established policy should never be questioned, then any future agenda will be doomed to both a narrow vision and repeated mistakes. This policy brief has highlighted the key shifts in the policymaking..."Read more :http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/MPIEurope-Facing2020.pdf See also : Emerging Transatlantic Security Dilemmas in Border Management, Elizabeth Collett, Migration Policy Institute, EUI R. Schuman Centre, 2011"The sheer volume of global travel, which has risen exponentially since the 1960s, puts border management systems under constant pressure. Beyond that growth, border management systems have had to contend with additional risks associated with these movements. Mass-casualty terrorist attacks, rising illegal immigration, and human trafficking have exposed weaknesses in states’ ability to manage their borders effectively. This policy memo examines the infrastructure and policy developments – and challenges – that have occurred in recent years on both sides of theAtlantic, discussing the differing nature and prioritization of those policy challenges..."Read more :http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/securitydilemmas-2011.pdf&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62; Migration Policy Institute Europe :http://www.migrationpolicy.org/europe/mpieurope/