Europe and extraterritorial asylum / Maarten den Heijer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heijer, Maarten den, author.

Series:

Studies in international law (Oxford, England) ; v. 39.

Studies in international law ; v. 39

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration law--European Union countries.

Emigration and immigration law.

Refugees--Legal status, laws, etc--European Union countries.

Refugees.

European Union countries--Foreign relations.

European Union countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"Increasingly, European and other Western states have sought to control the movement of refugees outside their borders. To do this, states have adopted a variety of measures - including carrier sanctions, interception of migrants at sea, posting of immigration officers in foreign countries and external processing of asylum-seekers. This book focuses on the legal implications of external mechanisms of migration control for the protection of refugees and irregular migrants. The book explores how refugee and human rights law has responded to the new measures adopted by states, and how states have sought cooperation with other actors in the context of migration control. The book defends the thesis that when European states attempt to control the movement of migrants outside their territories, they remain responsible under international law for protecting the rights of refugees as well as their general human rights. It also identifies how EU law governs and constrains the various types of pre-border migration enforcement employed by EU Member States, and examines how unfolding practices of external migration control conform with international law. This is a work which will be essential reading for scholars and practitioners of asylum and refugee law throughout Europe and the wider world."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

The extraterritorial applicability of human rights

The responsible actor

Extraterritorial asylum under international law

Extraterritorial asylum under European Union law

Interdiction at sea

External processing

How to take refugee rights into account.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-316) and index.

ISBN:

9786613851963

9781847319074

1847319076

9781472565891

1472565894

9781283539517

1283539519

9781847319067

1847319068

OCLC:

805517576