Schengen Visa Implementation and Transnational Policymaking

Federica Infantino is Research Fellow of the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. She also teaches the course ‘Border and Migration Control’ at the Institute for European Studies, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

• Introduction.- Schengen Visa Policy-Making: Shifting Competence while Authorizing Discretion.- Morocco: One ‘Third Country’ but Three National Contexts.- The National Sense Makimg of EU Visa Policy.- The Politics of Management.- Policy Work in Visa Sections.- The Making of Decisions.- Transnational Policy-Making From Below.- Conclusions.