Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH (IJHSDR), sa.Special Issue on “Global Strategy for sustainable development: Innovation, modelling, and alliances", ss.175-182, 2024 (Hakemli Dergi)
European integration has achieved its foundational goal of peace on the basis of the core values such as democracy, the protection of human rights and the rule of law. Apart from these values, the problem of democratic deficit in the European Union (EU) has been one of the main issues that scholars and Eurocrats have tried to solve. However, the various current crises in and around the EU have led to the question of democracy deficit no longer on the agenda and to the failing solidarity among member states that have been damaging those values in implementing its policies. This paper aims to analyze the politicized approaches of EU member states in the migration field. It firstly sheds light on the ineffectiveness of EU migration policy from a new theoretical perspective, posfunctionalism; and secondly shows that the EU has failed to reduce inequalities in a sensitive issue of migration, despite of its commitment to the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The paper is based on qualitative methodology with international media analysis of the years between 2015 and 2024. It is argued that EU member states have followed democratic mass politics at the expense of ignoring the UN refugee regime and the goal of reducing inequalities, serving party ideologies rather than EU core values, and promoting identity issues as a tool to combat migration.