Policy Primer: UK Migration Policy and EU Law

This policy primer discusses how EU membership shapes UK migration policy

No tiene que por qué ser así

El fallo de Europa ha sido permitir la creación de un mercado para los contrabandistas y no haber proporcionado asistencia humanitaria. Abrir rutas legales hacia Europa podría ser la solución a ambos problemas

'Objective 13: Use Migration Detention Only as a Measure of Last Resort and Work towards Alternatives’

The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) is a complex, non-binding instrument. It reflects, refracts, and potentially transforms binding international standards.1 The GCM is a framework for international cooperation, setting aspirational goals rather than prescriptive standards. Nonetheless, it must be read in light of binding international law

Implementation of the 2015 Council Decisions establishing provisional measures in the area of international protection for the benefit of Italy and of Greece. Study. PE 583 132. CEPS Research Report, March 2017

This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the LIBE Committee, examines the EU’s mechanism of relocation of asylum seekers from Greece and Italy to other Member States. It examines the scheme in the context of the Dublin System, the hotspot approach, and the EU-Turkey Statement, recommending that asylum seekers’ interests, and rights be duly taken into account, as it is only through their full engagement that relocation will be successful. Relocation can become a system that provides flexibility for Member States and local host communities, as well as accommodating the agency and dignity of asylum seekers. This requires greater cooperation from receiving States, and a clearer role for a single EU legal and institutional framework to organise preference matching and rationalise efforts and resources overall

Introduction to the symposium on undoing discriminatory borders

Migration laws and controls distribute important social goods: the right to enter and reside in a particular state, and the rights that attach to any such residence. Migration controls determine individuals’ life chances, including sometimes, their very survival. Migration control is a broad concept. Some practices, such as visa administration, control the possibility of travel by regular means, dictating access to mobility opportunities. Other aspects of migration control, such as the conferral of nationality, determine access to permanent residence rights, and the legal ability to pass on membership of a particular state to one's children. Some forms of migration control are automated and may also be undertaken by private actors, including for-profit companies. Others may involve determination or adjudication by individual officials or judges. What unites this broad set of practices is that they comprise important public functions with profound implications for both “outsiders” and “insiders.” As Chandran Kukathas argues, migration controls pose a threat to equality within states, challenging the notion that these practices primarily affect imagined “outsiders.”Footnote1 Migration controls impact both “without” and “within” the state. This introductory essay explores discrimination in migration control and discusses how such treatment may be approached from an international legal perspective. We introduce the symposium's contributors and essays and establish the need for further research on this topic