The paradox of freedom of movement. Preference formation in favour and against EU integration

该项目旨在研究移民自由对欧盟一体化进程的影响。欧盟移民的目的地国已经得到了研究人员的关注，他们发现，自由和开放市场既可以被视为积极的，也可以被视为消极的，从而导致不同的行为者对欧盟一体化的立场。然而，很少有人知道这种关系，在欧盟国家的原产地。因此，该项目是第一个重点关注自由和开放市场对欧盟原籍国政治和社会影响的项目。研究集体行为者的偏好，它将揭示自由和开放市场实际上如何促进欧盟一体化，正如欧盟一体化理论所预测的那样，并在欧盟条约中引入（第45条）。与这一假设相反，FOM也可能导致欧盟一体化的削弱。在两个研究假设的指导下，该项目首先研究了行为者是否越来越多地在社群主义框架内解释FOM的影响，其次研究了行为者对FOM的不同偏好是否以及如何通过国家和欧盟层面的制度分层战略来补偿。行为者是否以及如何表达对欧盟一体化的态度的基础上，他们的FOM的解释，不仅允许FOM和欧盟一体化之间的关系进行评估，但也可以提供欧盟多层次系统内的冲突解决策略。在国家和欧盟层面行为者偏好形成的过程中，该项目还将挖掘出其核心的社会和政治分歧。

The proposed project researches effects of freedom of movement (FOM) on the EU integration process. EU countries of destination of EU migrants have already received researchers’ attention finding that FOM can be perceived both positively and negatively leading to different actor positions on EU integration. However, little is known on this relationship in EU-countries of origin. Thus, the project is among the first that focuses on effects of FOM on politics and societies in EU countries of origin. Studying collective actor preferences it will reveal how FOM actually contributes to EU integration as predicted by EU integration theories and introduced in the EU Treaty (Art. 45 TFEU). Contrary to this assumption, FOM could also lead to a weakening of EU integration. Guided by two research assumptions the project researches first whether actors interpret effects of FOM increasingly within a communitarian framing and second whether and how diverging actor preferences on FOM may be compensated by strategies of institutional layering on national and EU level. Whether and how actors articulate attitudes towards EU integration on the basis of their FOM interpretations does not only allow for an assessment of the relationship between FOM and EU integration, but may also provide for strategies of conflict resolution within the EU multi-level system. Within this process of preference formation of actors on the national and EU level, the project will also unearth the social and political cleavages that lie at its core.