Summary: The East German migrants who trampled down the Iron Curtain vividly demonstrated that international migration is a security issue. Since then, international migration has become a major feature of European foreign policy makers’ rhetoric and a central focus of European Union co-operation. Indeed, even though the 1996–97 IGC was intended to prepare the EU for enlargement to the East, strengthening the Third Pillar and incorporating the Schengen Convention into the EU formed the centrepiece of the Amsterdam treaty. The Dublin Convention made Central and East European states into the EU's immigration buffer zone but, with enlargement, the EU's common external border is shifted eastward and this buffer zone will be eliminated. Moreover, the prospects of widening the zone of frontierless travel are particularly sensitive in light of the preoccupation of foreign policy makers with the security threats posed by expanding transnational criminal organisations. © 1998, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

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