Title: Europe and extraterritorial asylum /
Authors: Heijer, Maarten den
Publisher: Hart Pub.,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Refugees Legal status, laws, etc. European Union countries; Emigration and immigration law European Union countries.; European Union countries Foreign relations.
Abstract: "Increasingly, European and other Western states are seeking to control the movement of refugees outside their borders. In order 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 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 to international law"--P. [i].
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.