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Record Nr.

UNINA9910485147803321

Autore

Mitsilegas Valsamis

Titolo

The Criminalisation of Migration in Europe : Challenges for Human Rights and the Rule of Law / / by Valsamis Mitsilegas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-12658-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (117 p.)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Law, , 2192-8568

Disciplina

304.8

340

340.2

340.9

341.2422

341.48

364

Soggetti

Law - Europe

Emigration and immigration

Human rights

Criminology

Private international law

Conflict of laws

International law

Comparative law

European Law

Human Migration

Human Rights

Private International Law, International and Foreign Law, Comparative Law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

1. Conceptualising the Criminalisation of Migration -- 2. Before Entry: Criminalisation as Prevention -- 3. In the Territory: The Use of Substantive Criminal Law to Regulate the Presence of Migrants -- 4.



After Entry: Criminalisation as Risk Management, Detention and Removal -- 5. Decriminalising Migration in EU Law: Upholding Human Rights and the Rule of Law After Lisbon.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first monograph providing a comprehensive legal analysis of the criminalisation of migration in Europe. The book puts forward a definition of the criminalisation of migration as the three-fold process whereby migration management takes place via the adoption of substantive criminal law, via recourse to traditional criminal law enforcement mechanisms including surveillance and detention, and via the development of mechanisms of prevention and pre-emption. The book provides a typology of criminalisation of migration, structured on the basis of the three stages of the migrant experience: criminalisation before entry (examining criminalisation in the context of extraterritorial immigration control, delegation and privatisation in immigration control and the securitisation of migration); criminalisation during stay (examining how substantive criminal law is used to regulate migration in the territory); and criminalisation after entry and towards removal (examining efforts to exclude and remove migrants from the territory and jurisdiction of EU Member States and criminalisation through detention). The analysis focuses on the impact of the criminalisation of migration on human rights and the rule of law, and it highlights how European Union law (through the application of both the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and general principles of EU law) and ECHR law may contribute towards achieving decriminalisation of migration in Europe.