Migration policies in times of crisis: a subsidiarity approach

The aim of this work is to offer a contribution to the scientific debate on the European impasse concerning the issue of migrants. The answer to the request of acquis communautaire which, the Authors argue, raises from migrants’ mobility, should be found in a European approach based on the principle of subsidiarity. At the local level, the solutions to the problems of integration and interculturalism; at the national level, the planning of legal flows and at the supranational level, the political governance of migrations movements, including the relations with the migrants’ sending countries. The subsidiarity approach implies a multilevel citizenship that today is formally recognized by the European countries in a very asymmetrical way. Even in this case, the position of migrants is a very explicit example of what is, under a theoretical point of view, logic and what is, under a political point of view, viable. The reduction of the distance between what is logic and what is viable, is the open land for the new migration policies in Europe. This work is structured as follows: in the first section, the European concept of subsidiarity is introduced; in the second section, its relationship with the principle of the acquis communautaire is illustrated; in the third session, the acquis communautaire is included among the theoretical explanations of international migration; the concluding section illustrates the recent migration crisis and discusses the principleof subsidiarity as a key solution to it.