Immigration Detention, Risk and Human Rights

This book offers a brand new point of view on immigration detention, pursuing a multidisciplinary approach and presenting new reflections by internationally respected experts from academic and institutional backgrounds. It offers an in-depth perspective on the immigration framework, together with the evolution of European and international political decisions on the management of immigration. Readers will be introduced to new international decisions on the protection of human rights, together with international measures concerning the detention of immigrants.

In recent years, International Law and European Law have converged to develop measures for combatting irregular immigration. Some of them include the criminalization of illegally entering a member state or illegally remaining there after legally entering. Though migration has become a great challenge for policymakers, legislators and society as a whole, we must never forget that migrants should enjoy the same human rights and legal protection as everyone else.

The Sovereign Bias of Crimmigration Enforcement and Detention, by Robert Koulish.- Sovereign Discomfort: Can Liberal Norms Lead to Increasing Immigration Detention? by Michael Flynn.- Immigration Detention, Risk and Human Rights in the Law of the European Union. Lessons from the Returns Directive, by Valsamis Mitsilegas.- Immigration Detention and Non-Removability before the European Court of Human Rights, by Marloes Anne Vrolijk.- Immigration Detention: An Instrument in the Fight against Illegal Immigration or a Tool for its Management? by Galina Cornelisse.- Trapped Between Administrative Detention, Imprisonment, and Freedom-in-limbo, by Charles Gosme.- Immunity from Criminal Prosecution And Consular Assistance To The Foreign Detainee According The International Human Rights Law, by Larissa Leite.- Understanding Immigration Detention in the UK and Europe, by Elspeth Guild.- Women’s Immigration Detention in Greece: Gender, Control, and Capacity, by Mary Bosworth, Andriani Fili, and Sharon Pickering.- The Changing Nature of the Criminalization of Irregular Migration in Belgium since 1980, by Steven De Ridder and Maartje van der Woude.- Crimmigration Policies and the Great Recession: Analysis of the Spanish Case, by José Ángel Brandariz García.- Immigrants as Detainees: Some Reflections Based on Abyssal Thinking and Other Critical Approaches, by Katia Cardoso