Synopses & Reviews
Large-scale migration constitutes an unavoidable social reality within the European Union. A European polity is made possible and tangible by the individual acts of migrants crossing the internal borders, developing a transnational life and integrating into European societies.
Consequently, migration has become a special feature of the self-understanding of the European Union: its existence depends upon a continuing flow of persons crossing the borders of the Member States, and also upon the management of the flows of third-country nationals knocking at its doors. To respond to this challenge, the Union has developed common European migration policies.
This book is a collection of essays which aim to explore a selected number of issues related to the development of these policies. It presents the current state, and the future of European immigration law discussing the political rationales and legal competences driving the action of the Union in this area. It reflects on the cooperation of the Union with third countries and on the emergence of international migration legal norms. It illustrates the role of the European Courts and the emergence of new actors through the adoption of EU instruments.
About the Author
Loic Azoulai,
Professor of European Law, European University Institute,Karin de Vries,
Assistant professor, VU University of AmstredamLoic Azoulai holds the chair of European Law at the European University Institute. He is codirector of the Academy of European Law and of the Centre for Judicial Cooperation both hosted at the European University Institute. He is a member of the Boards of different law journals among which include Common Market Law Review, Revue trimestrielle de droit europeen, European Journal of Legal studies (EJLS ). He has published on a wide range of questions of European Union Law.
Karin de Vries is an Assistant Professor at the VU University of Amsterdam. She obtained her PhD from the VU University in 2012 and from 2011 to 2012 she was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence.
Table of Contents
Introduction Loic Azoulai and Karin de Vries1. The Lisbon Treaty and the Future of European Immigration and Asylum Law, Helen Toner
2. The Politics of Irregular Migration, Christina Boswell
3. Migration Policy and EU External Relations, Bernd Martenczuk
4. Which Borders for the EU Immigration Policy? Yardsticks of International Protection for EU Joint Borders Management, Seline Trevisanut
5. Integration of Immigrants in EU Law and Policy: Challenges to Rule of Law, Exceptions to Inclusion, Sergio Carrera
6. Analysing European Case-Law on Migration: Options for Critical Lawyers, Thomas Spijkerboer