Christine Bertrand Paradoxes of the immigration policy of the European Union

Abstract: The article is devoted to the paradoxes of immigration policy of the European Union. The author singles out three such paradoxes. Regarding the first one, the author studies the changes in the policy from the openness of the internal (national) borders and guarded external borders to the opposite situation, when the external borders are weakened. Regarding the second one, the author discusses the issues of the need for immigrants in the European Union and marginalization of the labor immigration policy. Regarding the third one, the author discusses the need to respect the values of the European Union and the primary importance of the position in support of immigration. It is stated in the introduction that the Member States of the European Union have for a long time been regarding immigration as a purely national issues, and they attempt at the same time to manage migration streams, to pass documents defining legal regime of immigrants, and to make decisions on prerequisites and conditions for leaving the state of nationality for the public law reasons. The author uses both general scientific approaches and the specific methods of legal studies in the process of analysis of the legislation of the Member States of the European Union. For the first time in the Russian legal literature, the article allows the readers to get acquainted both with the legal regulation of immigration and the problems, which the Member States of the European Union are facing.

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