
Agreement on migration or political gesture?
The package to show Europe is in control of irregular arrivals is a triumph of performance over policy.
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Blanca Garcés is a senior research fellow in the area of migration and research co-ordinator at CIDOB (the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs). For more than 15 years she has studied immigration and asylum policies from a comparative perspective.

The package to show Europe is in control of irregular arrivals is a triumph of performance over policy.