The European Visa Database

This page provides a set of references for existing works on visas. Please do contact me if you would like a work included or on the list.

Research drawing on the European Visa Database

• Hobolth, M. 2012. Border control cooperation in the European Union: the Schengen visa policy in practice. PhD thesis. The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
• Hobolth, M. 2012. Researching Mobility Barriers: The European Visa Database. LSE Migration Studies Unit Working Paper Series. No. 3/2012. London: London School of Economics and Political Science.
• Hobolth, M. 2012. Stemming the ‘tide’ of migrants and refugees? European visa-issuing practices in a cross-country perspective. To be presented at the Council of European Studies' Nineteenth International Conference of Europeanist. Boston.
• Hobolth, M. 2012. Permanent migration and temporary mobility: Explaining why the United States has a more restrictive travel visa regime than the European Union.
• Hobolth, M. 2011. European visa cooperation: interest politics and regional imagined communities. LSE 'Europe In Question' Discussion Paper Series (LEQS). No. 34/2011. May 2011. London: LSE, European Institute.
• Hobolth, M. 2011. Europeanization of domestic migration control policies: the case of short-stay visas. 61st Political Studies Association (PSA) annual conference 'Transforming Politics: New Synergies', 19 - 21 April 2011, Novotel London West. London.
• Hobolth, M. 2010. Wanted and unwanted travelers: explaining similarities and differences in European visa practices. JMCE Annual Conference 2010 'Insiders and Outsiders: Globalisation, Citizenship and the Future of Europe', King's College London. London.

Papers analyzing visas and short term mobility

• Bigo, D. & Guild, E. 2005. Policing at a Distance: Schengen Visa Policies. In: Bigo, D. & Guild, E. (eds.) Controlling frontiers: free movement into and within Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited.
• Guild, E. 2010. When Even Machiavelli's Prince Needs a Visa: Migration, Euro-Mediterranean Relations and Intercultural Dialogue. European Foreign Affairs Review, 15:3, 367-384.
• Mau, S. 2010. Mobility Citizenship, Inequality, and the Liberal State: The Case of Visa Policies. International Political Sociology, 4:4, 339-361.
• Whyte, B. 2008. Visa-free Travel Privileges: An Exploratory Geographical Analysis. Tourism Geographies, 10:2, 127-149.

Papers analyzing visas and irregular migration

• Zolberg, A. R. 2003. The Archaeology of 'Remote Control'. In: Fahrmeir, A., Faron, O. & Weil, P. (eds.) Migration control in the North Atlantic World: The Evolution of State Practices in Europe and the United States from the French Revolution to the Inter-War Period. New York: Berghahn Books.

Papers analyzing visas and forced migration

• Collinson, S. 1996. Visa Requirements, Carrier Sanctions, 'Safe Third Countries' and 'Readmission': The Development of an Asylum 'Buffer Zone' in Europe. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 21:1, 76-90.
• Hatton, T. J. 2004. Seeking Asylum in Europe. Economic Policy, 19:38, 5-62.

Opinion pieces

• Hobolth, M. 2012. The increase in asylum seekers from the Balkans was a predictable consequence of a foreign policy driven visa liberalisation.. EUROPP - European Politics and Policy Blog. The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).