New publication: Final Report Horizon-2020 project NoVaMigra
The EU Horizon 2020 project NoVaMigra (Norms and Values in the European Migration and Refugee Crisis), in which UU's Ethics Institute took part, has published its .
The report discusses how the EU's core norms and values relate to migration and provides recommendations for a rights-based, democratic perspective for the EU鈥檚 migration and refugee policy. In particular, it finds that:
Although talk about 鈥淓uropean values鈥 has grown more salient after the 鈥渞efugee crisis鈥, the meaning of these values has become increasingly unclear.
Values鈥 lack of definition poses a problem to the legitimacy of the EU, since actors invoke the same values to justify an increasingly incompatible range of policies.
In response, the EU and the EU member states should initiate a public dialogue about the EU鈥檚 core commitments that focusses on human rights and human dignity rather than 鈥淓uropean values鈥.
NoVaMigra set out to provide a comprehensive understanding of the content, meaning and use of values in European migration and integration politics since the 鈥渞efugee crisis鈥 of 2015. From 2018 to 2021, the project combined philosophical analysis with legal theory, social sciences and anthropological approaches to pursue three leading questions. First, researchers reconstructed what Europe鈥檚 core values are and how they relate to migration. Secondly, they analysed if and how these values have changed in the wake of the 2015 鈥渞efugee crisis鈥. Finally, they went on to construct core principles for a realistic cosmopolitan migration policy, which remains true to the EU's core norms and values.
NoVaMigra final report can be downloaded .
NoVaMigra is a joint research initiative of nine European and North American universities and research institutes based in Athens (Greece), Budapest (Hungary), Chicago (USA), Essen (Germany), Malm枚 (Sweden), Milan (Italy), Paris (France), Poznan (Poland) and Utrecht (The Netherlands). The project has received funding from the European Union鈥檚 Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 770330.
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