From the Tampere Agenda of 1999 until The Hague Programme of 2005, the EU member states have been gradually establishing the necessary mechanisms and instruments for arriving at a European immigration policy. Without ignoring the particularities in the migration history of each of the member states, neither the discourse nor policies in the state scenario can separate themselves from the European dimension, as is made clear in issues such as the management of flows, social integration, border control, relations with countries of origin, etc.
Along this line, it is a priority to analyse the extent to which the European debates affect its member countries and how the discourses and issues that are posed in them are incorporated into the policies of the European Union. The study of the immigration policies of the member states from a comparative perspective is one of the priorities of this area of research.
