Europeanization of Asylum Administrative Practice? Transnational Administrative Cooperation between European Asylum Agencies

欧洲共同庇护制度引入了政治和行政规则和程序，为在整个欧洲联盟以协调一致的方式处理庇护申请奠定了基础。但这并不一定导致一个更少分割、更一体化的欧洲官僚领域，因为后者不仅依赖于超国家的参考框架，而且需要横向协调和结构化的官僚目标、程序和实践。事实上，官僚领域在“街头层面”运作，在那里，个案工作者与寻求庇护者互动，管理申请并作出权威决定。在过去三年中，我们重点关注跨国行政合作和建立共同的欧洲参考框架，并在对德国和瑞典庇护当局的国别比较研究中调查了这些框架是如何实施、调整或改变的。在今后三年中，我们的目标是对行政程序和做法的跨国层面进行系统分析，以补充这种比较观点。我们的目标是重建整个欧洲公共当局之间新兴的街头劳动分工，从而更好地理解官僚领域正在进行的转变，其实际的行政实践，相关的国家权力重构，以及它对欧洲社会秩序的影响。“横向欧洲化”研究小组的问题和目标在我们自己的工作中处于中心位置：分析行政部门之间在目标、程序和实践方面的跨国协调需要系统地考虑国家和地区之间的权力不对称和不平等。此外，我们的研究将直接关注危机因素、结构性矛盾和政治化过程的分析，以及它们对重新配置欧洲庇护管理领域的影响。

The Common European Asylum System (CEAS) introduces political and administrative rules and procedures that lay the ground for a coordinated approach to handling asylum applications throughout the European Union. But this does not necessarily lead to a less segmented, more integrated European bureaucratic field, because the latter depends not only on a supranational frame of reference, but requires horizontally coordinated and structured bureaucratic goals, procedures and practices. In fact, the bureaucratic field operates at the 'street-level', where caseworkers interact with asylum-seekers, administer applications and take authoritative decisions. Over the past three years, we focused on transnational administrative cooperation and the generation of common, European frames of reference and investigated how these are implemented, adapted or changed in a country-comparative study of German and Swedish asylum authorities. During the next three years, we aim to complement this comparative perspective with a systematic analysis of the transnational dimension of administrative procedures and practices. It is our aim to reconstruct the emerging street-level division of labor between public authorities across Europe and thus better understand the ongoing transformation of the bureaucratic field, its factual administrative practices, the related reconfiguration of state power, and its effects on social order in Europe. The "Horizontal Europeanization" research group's questions and objectives are at center stage within our own work: analysis of transnational coordination between administrations in regard to goals, procedures and practices requires systematic consideration of power asymmetries and inequalities between countries and regions. Moreover, our research will direct attention to analysis of elements of crisis, structural contradictions and politicization processes, and their impact on reconfiguring the European asylum administration field.