BREXIT AND COVID-19: TRANSFORMING THE LANDSCAPE OF IMMIGRATION POLICY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

Abstract

This paper guides that how COVID-19 and Brexit has transformed the immigration policies of European Union. This research explores how dual crises and events have been impacted on the migration norms and rules, regional stability, national independence, economic and security requirements .Due to pandemic the free movement in EU was disrupted by taking the measures on travel bans and instant border controls. While Brexit also ended the free movement of UK and EU in context of more affecting the migration patterns or policies, jobs or citizen’s basic right for example asylum or refugee rights. This study focuses on the key policies of EU like Schengen agreement and Dublin regulation and examines how recent actions and steps have been taken which has addressed the health, labor shortages and also humanitarian concerns. The findings have showed that with the help of successful migration policies the assistance is balancing the basic humanitarian values, economic needs and regional cooperation. By comparing the Pre and Post crises policies, the study concludes that EU should work more closely on their immigration policies for their effective progress in future and also balancing the national and shred priorities to maintain their regional stability and unity all across the EU countries.