Integrating migrants in Europe: the EU’ s ‘viewpoint’ from a legal perspective

The main aim of the study is to investigate the concept of evaluation applied to a corpus of legislative instruments in favour of migrants’ rights. In particular, attention has been paid to some evaluative lexical choices found in association with two key-words – integration and protection. More specifically, evaluation has been investigated taking into account the phrases and the grammar patterns most frequently found with these words in the corpus. The corpus includes some EU Directives in the time span 2001- 2013 aimed at integrating migrants (see Appendix A). The Directives include rights such as family reunification, equal opportunities to men and women, international protection, the conditions of entry and residence of third-country nationals for the purposes of highly qualified employment, granting and withdrawing international protection. In short, all the Directives are aimed at integrating migrants, granting them some rights and promoting common procedures among the Member States in order to better protect them.