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，为在整个欧洲联盟采取协调一致的办法处理庇护申请奠定了基础。但这并不一定会导致一个更少分割、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照系，而且需要横向协调和结构化的官僚目标、程序和做法。事实上，官僚机构是在"基层"运作的，社会工作者与寻求庇护者互动，管理申请并作出权威性决定。在过去的三年里，我们专注于跨国行政合作和共同的欧洲参考框架的生成，并调查了这些是如何在德国和瑞典庇护当局的国家比较研究中实施，调整或改变的。在未来三年，我们的目标是补充这一比较的角度与行政程序和做法的跨国层面的系统分析。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的持续变革，其实际的行政实践，国家权力的相关重新配置，及其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是我们工作的核心：分析行政当局之间在目标、程序和做法方面的跨国协调，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，结构性矛盾和政治化进程的要素分析，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.