Forced migrations and refugees in the Mediterranean Basin and the MENA Region / Laura Westra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Westra, Laura, author.

Series:

Human Rights: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forced migration--Africa, North.

Forced migration.

Forced migration--Middle East.

Forced migration--Mediterranean Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York, New York State : Nova Science Publishers, [2021]

Summary:

"In the past migrations opened the world to knowledge, science, and understanding among peoples, but increasingly migrants are viewed with disfavour and even hate, especially in the Mediterranean Basin and the MENA Region. I had published with two other scholars a book intended to promote the rights of migrants in 2015, but today the situation has become so much worse, particularly in our chosen area, that I believe the time has come to re-examine the situation. A number of issues conspire to render the fate of migrants truly desperate, as they are forced to leave their lands that, due to the increasingly grave effects of climate change, can no longer feed and support them and their families, while the ongoing conflicts in the area render their situation truly unlivable. In addition, in the last few years, extreme right-wing political parties in Europe have conspired to treat people of different colour, ethnicity, or religion as unworthy of the respect due to all human beings. In 2019 a further disaster struck the whole world, a pandemic that imposed particularly harsh conditions to migrants, who were clearly unable to practice social distance and who found themselves in situations where testing, medicines and even sufficient food and water were not available. There are important aspects of this work that have global applications beyond the focus area we have chosen, such as the spread of racism, the fostering of conflicts to advance the interests of powerful countries, the dangerous spread of populism with fascist tendencies, and the spread of imperialism. Most of all, there is a lesson to be learned: walls to exclude and separate people provide no solutions for any of the grave problems we all face. Such problems can be solved all together or not at all; what is needed is a concentrated effort to acknowledge our need for each other, as only a belief in the true brotherhood of all can help"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

Migrations Through the Mediterranean Sea

Abstract

1. An Asymmetrical Right

2. The Rights of Irregular Migrants and Refugees

3. Two Cases Relating to Irregular Migrants through the Mediterranean Sea

Conclusion

Introduction

Part One

Chapter 1: Climate Change and the Plight of Migrants- Five Years Later

Chapter 2: Land Grabs: The Other Crime against Humanity

Chapter 3: The Geopolitical Situation in the Mediterranean Basin and the MENA Region: The Worst Dangers for Migrants and Refugees

Chapter 4: The COVID-19 Pandemic: Migrants and Refugees Fight for Survival

Part Two

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 1

Climate Change and the Plight of Migrants-Five Years Later

1. Introduction

2. Migrants and Refugees in the Mediterranean Basin

3. The Ongoing Effects of Colonization and the Bottom Billion

4. Food and Climate Change: A Neglected Issue

Chapter 2

Land Grabs: The Other Crime Against Humanity

2. From Theory to the Reality of Land Grabs

Land Grabs, Indigenous Peoples and the Third World

Chapter 3

The Geopolitical Situation in the Mediterranean Basin and the MENA Region: The Worst Dangers for Migrants and Refugees

2. Fascism in Italy and the Migrants and Refugees

3. Migrants, Refugees and their Rights

Chapter 4

The COVID-19 Pandemic: Migrants' and Refugees' Fight for Survival

2. Migrants and Refugees in Their Fight for Survival

3. The Principles of the UN and the Grave Obstacles Faced by Migrants and Refugees

3.1. The United Nations-Its Principles, Purposes and Mandates

3.2. Can SC Resolution be Challenged?

4. Beyond Colonization in the Mediterranean Basin and the MENA Region and the Protection of Refugees and Migrants.

Part Two

North Africa and the Venus 'Squint': About the Italian Migration Policies and the Need for Security

2. Europe and the Venus 'Squint'

3. The Origin of the Problem

4. The Constitutional Framework

5. The Italian Political Squint and the Immigration Issues

6. The Dream of "Security" against the Dream of a Land

7. The Italian Consolidated Law on Immigration (TUI) in the Light of the New Provisions of the cc. dd. Security Decrees

8. The Judgment of the Constitutional Court on the "First" Security Decree

9. The Recognition of the Human Rights in the Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court

10. The Organization of the Reception Facilities for Migrants

11. The Unfinished Story: the Change of Direction and the Abolition of the Salvini Decree

References

European Legal Regimes for the Protection of Migrants and Refugees in 2020

2. EU Primary Law on Migration: A Tale of Multi-Level Fundamental Rights Protection

3. Protection upon Access to the EU Territory

4. Right to Asylum and Principle of Non-Refoulement

4.1. Subsidiary Protection

5. Status of Migrants and Associated Documentation

6. Procedural Safeguards and Support in Asylum and Return Cases

6.1. Right to an Effective Remedy

6.2. The Dublin Procedure

7. Protection against Detention and Restriction of Individual Right to Liberty

8. Protection during Forced Returns and Removal

9. Climate Migration and the EU: Where Do We Stand?

About the Editor

Index

Blank Page.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-5361-9471-9

OCLC:

1243514555