Negotiating asylum the EU acquis, extraterritorial protection, and the common market of deflection / Gregor Noll.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Noll, Gregor, author.

Series:

Raoul Wallenberg Institute human rights library ; Volume 6.

Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library ; Volume 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asylum, Right of.

Political refugees--Government policy.

Political refugees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 643 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Brill 2000

The Hague, The Netherlands : Kluwer Law International, [2000]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How is access to asylum and other forms of extraterritorial protection regulated in the European Union? Is the EU acquis in these areas in conformity with international law? Which tools does international law offer to solve collisions between both? And, finally, is law capable of bridging the foundational oppositions embedded in migration and asylum issues? This work combines the potential of legal formalism with an analytical framework drawing on political theory. It analyses the argumentative strategies used by international lawyers, and developed them further, exploiting the interpretative methodology of international law as well as elaborate discrimination arguments. The author concludes that deflecting protection seekers by means of visa requirements may constitute a violation of the European Convention of Human Rights, and that the prescriptions of international law oblige Member States to apply the Dublin Convention and the Spanish Protocol in a manner emptying it of its main control functions. The author also shows that burden-sharing remains the pivotal element in the normative dynamics behind the EU acquis, and explains why the European Court of Human Rights must be regarded as the only transnational forum for the legitimate negotiation of asylum in Europe.

Contents:

Intro

Negotiating Asylum: The EU Acquis, Extraterritorial Protection and the Common Market of Deflection

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

STRUCTURE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES

ABBREVIATIONS

1 INTRODUCTION

1.1. Reminiscences from a Continuing Past

1.1.1 Protecting Communities I

1.1.2 Protecting Communities II

1.1.3 Protecting Communities Ill

1.1.4 The Ambiguity of Hindsight

1.2 Identifying the Problem

1.3 Delimiting the Problem

1.3.1 'Access'

1.3.2 'Extraterritorial Protection'

1.3.3 'Regulated'

1.3.4 'In the European Union'

1.4 Identifying Law

1.4.1 International Law

1.4.1.1 The Concept of 'International Law'

1.4.1.2 Sources of International Law

1.4.1.3 Normative Hierarchies within International Law

1.4.1.4 International Law and Justiciability Advantages

1.4.2 The Law of the European Union

1.4.2.1 Terminology

1.4.2.2 Primary and Secondary Law of the European Union

1.4.2.3 EC Law and Union Law: Conceptual Questions

1.4.2.4 EC Law: Sources and Normative Hierarchies

1.4.2.5 EC Law and Justiciability Advantages

1.4.2.6 Union law: Sources, Normative Hierarchies and Justiciability Advantages

1.4.2. 7 A Normative Hierarchy between EC Law, Union Law and International Law?

1.4.3 Intermediary Conclusion

1.5 Determining Law-Methodological Considerations

1.5.1 A Triple Dilemma

1.5.2 Structuring Conflicts

1.5.3 The Legal-technical Level

1.5.4 The Qualitative Level

1.5.5 The Metalega/ Leve/

1.6 The Structure of Inquiry

2 UNIVERSALISM VERSUS PARTICULARISM

2.1 Choosing between Torture and Terrorism: Mr. Chahal vs. the U.K. Population

2.2 Universalism

2.3 Particularism

2.4 Human Rights versus Sovereignty

2.5 Artefact versus Organism

2.6 Meandering Arguments

3 DETERMINANTS OF PROTECTION SYSTEMS.

3.1 The State Perspective

3.2 The Perspective of the Protection Seeker

3.2.1 Access to Territory

3.2.2 Access to FulI-fledged Procedures

3.2.3 Access to Protection

3.3 Two Loops

4 EUROPEAN INTEGRATION AND EXTRATERRITORIAL PROTECTION

4.1. The Real World: Flight Movements to and within Europe since 1985

4.2 The Institutional World: From Schengen to Amsterdam

4.2.1 Freedom through Control: The 1985 White Paper and the Single European Act4.2.1 Freedom through Control: The 1985 White Paper and the Single European Act

4.2.2 L'Europe acceleree: Schengen4.2.2 L'Europe acceleree: Schengen

4.2.3 Trying to Catch Up: The European Political Cooperation

4.2.3.1 The Dublin Convention

4.2.3.2 The Draft External Border Convention

4.2.3.3 Enter Soft Law: The London Resolutions

4.2.3.4 Swapping Information: CIREA and CIREFI

4.2.4 Maastricht-Progress through Split Competencies?

4.2.5 Planning the Economy of Harmonization: Amsterdam

4.2.5.1 Competencies and Obligations

4.2.5.2 Decision Making under Title IV

4.2.5.3 The Role of the ECJ

4.2.5.4 The Position of Denmark, Ireland and the U.K.

4.2.6 The Integration of the Schengen acquis

4.2.7 The Variable Geometry of Integration

4.2.8 Enlarging the Union

4.3 Conclusion

5 ACCESS TO TERRITORY UNDER THE EU ACQUIS

5.1 Pre-entry Measures

5.1.1 The Harmonisation of Visa Regimes

5.1.1.1 Visa Harmonisation in the EU

5.1.1.2 Visa Harmonisation in the Schengen Group

5.1.1.3 Mainstreaming the Schengen Visa acquis: The Commission Proposal

5.1.2 Measures Complementing Visa Regimes

5.1.2.1 Carrier Sanctions

5.1.2.2 Sanctions against Human Smugglers

5.1.2.3 Pre-frontier Assistance and Training

5.1.3 Conclusion

5.2 Post-entry Measures: The Concept of Safe Third Countries

5.2.1 Allocation to other Member States.

5.2.1.1 The Dublin Convention

5.2.1.2 Complementing Dublin: The Eurodac Proposal

5.2.2 Allocation to Non-Member States

5.2.2.1 The 1992 Resolution on Host Third Countries

5.2.2.2 Complementing Allocation to Non-Member States: Readmission Agreements

5.2.2.2.1 The EU acquis on Readmission

5.2.2.2.2 Competencies after Amsterdam

5.2.3 Conclusion

6 ACCESS TO FULL-FLEDGED PROCEDURES UNDER THE EU ACQUIS

6.1 The EU acquis Related to Procedure

6.2 The Spanish Protocol

6.3 Competencies after Amsterdam

6.4 Conclusion

7 ACCESS TO PROTECTION UNDER THE EU ACQUIS

7.1. Protection Categories

7.1.1 The EU Acquis Related to Protection Categories: Questions of Scope

7.1.2 The Substantial Content of the Refugee Joint Position

7.1.3 Competencies after Amsterdam

7.1.4 Conclusion

7.2 Return

7.2.1 The EU acquis Related to Return

7.2.2 The Schengen acquis Related to Return

7.2.3 Competencies after Amsterdam

7.2.4 Assessment of the EU acquis Related to Return

7.3 Intermediary Conclusion: Access to Protection in the EU

8 SHARING THE BURDEN?

8.1. The Concept and Function of Burden-sharing

8.1.1 The Objective of Burden-sharing

8.1.2 The Scope of Burden-sharing

8.1.2.1 Sharing Norms

8.1.2.2 Sharing Money

8.1.2.3 Sharing People

8.1.3 Assessing Burden-sharing Schemes

8.2 Burden-sharing and International Law

8.3 Burden-sharing and the EU acquis

8.3.1 Negotiations Preceding the 1995 Resolution

8.3.2 Comparison of the German Draft and the 1995 Resolution

8.3.3 The Impact of the Treaty of Amsterdam

8.3.4 The Solidarity Drafts: Merging Admission and Burden-sharing?

8.3.5 The Experimental Instruments of 1997 to 1999

8.3.6 The Proposal on a European Refugee Fund

8.4 Concentrating the Burden

8.4.1 Concentration Effects of the Dublin Convention.

8.4.2 Concentration Effects of Safe Third Country- Arrangements

8.5 Two Interpretive Approaches

8.5.1 Subsidiarity

8.5.2 Game Theory

8.6 Conclusion

9 INTERNATIONAL LAW AND EXTRATERRITORIAL PROTECTION

9.1 Protection

9.1.1 A Right to Seek and Enjoy Asylum?

9.1.2 Express Prohibitions of Refoulement in Human Rights Law

9.1.2.1 The 1951 Refugee Convention

9.1.2.2 The 1984 CAT

9.1.2.3 Other Express Prohibitions of Refou/ement in Human Rights law?

9.1.3 Express Prohibitions of Refoulement in Humanitarian Law

9.1.4 Implicit Prohibitions of Refoulement in Treaty Law

9.1.4.1 Human Rights Law

9.1.4.2 Humanitarian Law

9.2 Access to Territory

9.2.1 The ICCPR

9.2.2 The Fourth Protocol to the ECHR

9.3 Methodology of Interpretation

9.4 Identifying Hard Cases

9.4.1 Protection: Implicit Prohibitions of Refoulement

9.4.1.1 Article 3 ECHR and Article 7 ICCPR

9.4.1.2 Article 32 FC

9.4.2 Access to Territory

9.4.2.1 The Right to Leave and the Right to Entry

9.4.2.2 Explicit Prohibitions of Refoulement

9.4.2.3 Implicit Right to Access

9.4.3 Interim Conclusion on the First Stage

10 INTERPRETING HARD CASES

10.1 Protection: Implicit Prohibitions of Refoulement

10.1.1 Article 3 ECHR

10.1.1.1 The Reasoning of the European Organs

10.1.1.2 Two Critics of the European Organs

10.1.1.3 Methodological Appraisal

10.1.1.4 Reinterpreting Article 3 ECHR

10.1.2 Article 7 ICCPR

10.2 Access to Territory

10.2.1 The Right to Leave and the Right to Entry

10.2.1.1 A Universalist Reading

10.2.1.2 A Particularist Reading

10.2.1.2.1 Complementing the Second Stage

10.2.1.2.2 The Third Stage

10.2.2 Explicit Prohibitions of Refoulement

1.0.2.2.1. Article 33 GC

10.2.2.1.1 The Second and Third Stage in the Light of Doctrinal Debate.

10.2.2.1.2 Article 33 GC in the Light of the Dublin Convention

10.2.2.1.3 Conclusion

10.2.2.2 Article 3 CAT

10.2.2.2.1 The Second Stage

10.2.2.2.2 The Third Stage

10.2.2.3 Article 45 FC

10.2.3 Implicit Prohibitions of Refoulement

10.2.3.1 Article 7 ICCPR

10.2.3.2 Article 3 ECHR

10.3 Interim Conclusion on Hard Cases

10.4 Substance by Method?

10.4.1 What Does the Vienna Convention Do To the Law?

10.4.2 What Do Lawyers Do With the Vienna Convention?

10.4.3 Three Wildcards: Presumptions, Telos and Indeterminacy

11. DELIMITING AND JUSTIFYING PROTECTION UNDER THE ECHR

11.1 The Case Law of the European Organs

11.2 A Hierarchy among Rights?

11.3 lrreparability as a Water-Shed?

11.4 A Hierarchy within Rights: The Concept of Positive Obligations

11.5 Conclusion

12 THREE CONFLICT ZONES

12.1 Access to Territory: Visa Requirements and the ECHR

12.1.1 Determinants of Discrimination Arguments

12.1.2 Discrimination under the ECHR?

12.1.3 Refining Proportionality Reasoning

12.1.4 Applying the Refined Proportionality Test to Visa Requirements

12.1.5 Appraisal

12.2 Access to Territory and Protection: Choosing between Dublin and Geneva?

12.2.1 Permissive Tolerance, Margin of Discretion or Unitary Interpretation?

12.2.2 Delimiting Protection Categories: Persecution by Third Parties

12.2.2.1 The 1951 Refugee Convention

12.2.2.2 The CAT

12.2.2.3 The ECHR

12.2.3 Appraisal

12.3 Access to Full-Fledged Procedures: The Spanish Protocol and Discrimination

12.3.1 Interpreting the Spanish Protocol in the Light of International Law

12.3.2 Discrimination under the 1951 Refugee Convention?

12.3.4 Discrimination under the TEC?

12.3.5 Appraisal

12.4 Conclusion

13 DEMOS, DETERMINACY AND JUSTIFICATION

13.1 Tilting the Balance: Constructions of the Demos.

13.1.1 The European Union and the Demos Dilemma.

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ISBN:

9789004461543

900446154X