Small States and the European Migrant Crisis

Tómas Joensen is Researcher and Program Manager at the Centre for Small State Studies, Institute of International Affairs, University of IcelandIan Taylor is Professor of International Relations and African Political Economy at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK

• PART 1: Introduction and Framework.- 1.Small States and the Migrant Crisis in Context.- 2.Analysing Small States in Crisis: Fundamental Assumptions and Analytical Starting Points.- PART 2: Small States and the Current Political Turmoil Related to Immigration.- 3.Immigration-Integration: A New Opportunity for the EU?.- 4.Openness Versus Helplessness: Europe’s Border Crisis, 2015-2018.- PART 3: On the Frontline: The Experiences of the Border States.- 5.The (De)Europeanisation of Greece: Experience from the Eye of the Storm.- 6.Migration and Security: The Case of Greece.- 7.Malta: A Janus Faced Migration and Integration Policy.- PART 4: Waving Them on? The Experiences of Peripheral States.- 8.Coping with the Migration Crisis in a Small States in the European Union: The Experience of Slovenia.- 9.The 2015 Migration Crisis as an Identity Crisis for Iceland .- 10.Small States: “The Gatekeepers” of EU Borders During the Migration Crisis.- 11.A Small Administration Facing a Complex Policy Challenge: Estonia and the 2015 Refugee Crisis.- PART 5: Conclusion.- 12.Small States and the European Migrant Crisis: New Challenges and Coping Strategies.