While the EU was still recovering from the Great Recession, the refugee crisis polarized and mobilized national and European political spaces, inducing governments to revise their immigration policies. Scholars are presently engaged in academic debate over whether these revisions can be explained by reference to grand theories of European integration. In this context, we ask the following questions. If public opinion favoured ‘constraining’ EU integration, can public concern over the refugee crisis prompt political elites to stand against a regulative solution that would replace the Dublin System? How do these trends align with the grand theories of EU integration? By analysing longitudinal surveys of elites, general public and experts, we show that public rejection of immigrants relates to elites' opposition to a supranational prevalence of EU institutions for setting immigration quotas, thus inhibiting integration on extra-EU migrants' resettlement.

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舆论在欧盟一体化中的作用：评估难民危机期间精英与公众的关系

当欧盟仍在从大衰退中恢复时，难民危机使国家和欧洲的政治空间两极分化并动员起来，促使各国政府修改其移民政策。目前，学者们正在就这些修订是否可以通过参考欧洲一体化的宏大理论来解释这一问题进行学术辩论。在这种情况下，我们提出以下问题。如果公众舆论支持“限制”欧盟一体化，公众对难民危机的担忧能否促使政治精英反对将取代都柏林体系的监管解决方案？这些趋势如何与欧盟一体化的宏大理论保持一致？通过对精英、公众和专家的纵向调查分析，我们表明公众对移民的拒绝与精英的