The European Union before the challenge of the irregular immigration

Abstract

While the process of European integration has been forming since the years following the end of the Second World War, a process in an early stage of economic and then political integration, we have been witnessing a gradual disappearance of checks at the common borders of the member states that, despite the increased controls at the external border of the Union, has been accompanied by a wide range of problems to the internal security of the Union itself and the states themselves, which as been observed on many occasions and once overcome (legal or irregular) this barrier to external input, the arrival of unprecedented migration. Throughout this article I analyze the measures that have been developed on irregular immigration and repatriation or removal thereof, also depending among other initiatives undertaken in the field of passenger transport, the use of irregular labor force in Europe and the utility of readmission agreements for the operation of the immigration policy.