{"id":2115,"date":"2018-04-25T10:54:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T09:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.wordpress.com\/?p=2115"},"modified":"2018-04-25T10:54:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T09:54:02","slug":"the-spirit-of-the-schengen-rules-the-humanitarian-visa-and-contested-asylum-governance-in-europe-the-swiss-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=2115","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018spirit of the Schengen rules\u2019, the humanitarian visa, and contested asylum governance in Europe \u2013 The Swiss case"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Author(s) : Philip Hanke, Marek Wieruszewski, Marion Panizzon<\/h3>\n<h3>Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/1369183X.2018.1441615\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/1369183X.2018.1441615<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Abstract: <\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<div class=\"hlFld-Abstract\">\n<div class=\"abstractSection abstractInFull\">\n<p>The paper examines why Switzerland along with several other European countries introduced a Schengen visa to substitute for individual applications for asylum at the country\u2019s embassy as a pathway to protect Syrian refugees. The case study highlights the inherent interest asymmetries in a tenuous arrangement of multi-layered governance, revealing a conflict over the interpretation of Schengen law in a collective governance environment \u2013 a conflict that was recently resolved by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). Drawing on multi-layered governance, the paper discusses why the Swiss divergence from the \u2018spirit\u2019, but not the \u2018letter\u2019 of the Schengen code (a metaphor used by the EU Commission), could be considered as an example of \u2018de-coupling\u2019 from the negotiated, intergovernmental order. Whereas <i>de jure<\/i> the unity of the Schengen visa code is maintained, the amount of discretion which Switzerland and other Schengen countries have used to interpret the regulatory purpose behind the Schengen humanitarian visa went too far for the CJEU and the EU Commission. The case study illustrates how the interpretation of rules matters in a multi-layered framework of governance, possibly giving the ability to react to changing circumstances, but also bearing the potential for conflict.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"abstractKeywords\">\n<div class=\"hlFld-KeywordText\"><strong>KEYWORDS<\/strong>: Schengen agreement<span class=\"comma\">,\u00a0<\/span>Dublin system<span class=\"comma\">,\u00a0 <\/span>Switzerland<span class=\"comma\">,\u00a0 <\/span>asylum<span class=\"comma\">,\u00a0 <\/span>EU<span class=\"comma\">,\u00a0 <\/span>governance<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s) : Philip Hanke, Marek Wieruszewski, Marion Panizzon Source :&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[285,7,49,112,450,9,27,302,297,216,268,94,211,541],"class_list":["post-2115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-285","tag-article","tag-asylum-policy","tag-asylum-procedure","tag-dublin-convention","tag-english-language","tag-european-union","tag-governance","tag-humanitarian-assistance","tag-international-cooperation","tag-international-law","tag-political-system","tag-schengen-convention","tag-syria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}