Extraterritorial Immigration Control: Legal Challenges: 21 (Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy in Europe, 21) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004172335 ISBN 13: 9789004172333

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff, 2010

Synopsis

A central element of contemporary border regimes is their application to migrants before they reach a state's territory. The main forms of this extraterritorial immigration control are visa requirements, pre-embarkation immigration controls and the interception of irregular migrants at sea. This work analyses the complex relationship of the law to these practices, as legal guarantees are potentially avoided, while the legality of control is often uncertain. It examines the international law framework, including the law of the sea and the extraterritorial application of principles of non-refoulement contained in the Refugee Convention and in international human rights law. The work also includes detailed case-studies of the legal challenges posed by extraterritorial immigration controls in Europe, Australia and the United States.

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About the Author

Bernard Ryan has a PhD from the European University Institute and is Reader in Law at the University of Kent. He has published widely on migration law and has edited Labour Migration and Employment Rights (Institute of Employment Rights, 2005).

Valsamis Mitsilegas is Professor of European Criminal Law at Queen Mary, University of London. From 2001 to 2005 he was legal adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Union. He has published widely in the field of EU Justice and Home Affairs (including both EU immigration law and EU criminal law). His latest book is EU Criminal Law (Hart, 2009).

Edition details

• Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004172335
• ISBN 13: 9789004172333
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 456
• Editor: Ryan Bernard, Mitsilegas Valsamis