Master of Science in Sociology Dissertation Data - Cole

This document is a comparative coded dataset and analytical framework developed for a Master of Science dissertation at Ghent University examining how European Union Member States construct and operationalize “solidarity” within the implementation of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum. The document analyzes National Implementation Plans (NIPs), national migration strategies, and auxiliary migration governance documents across EU Member States. It evaluates how different countries frame migration governance through varying combinations of responsibility-sharing, border security, humanitarian obligations, administrative coordination, integration, and externalization. The data also includes further comparative dimensions such as moral boundary (who deserves solidarity), governance scale (national versus supranational authority), and operational mechanism (redistribution, control, integration, reciprocity, etc.) to trace how solidarity is interpreted and institutionalized across different national contexts. The document offers detailed country-by-country coding summaries.