The Borders of the Law: Legal Fictions, Elusive Borders, Migrants' Rights

Abstract: Bordering processes take place through different means and are carried out by different actors. Laws and regulatory activities have a prominent place among border-drawing instruments: Their capacity to mobilise actors, allocate funds, and determine procedures and remedies make them a formidable and multifaceted bordering tool. It is therefore not surprising to notice that EU institutions have heavily relied on regulatory tools when the need to resort to new bordering processes emerged in the aftermath of the so-called migration crisis. This article delves into a particular (re-)bordering process emerging from the legislative proposals attached to the Commission's 2020 New Pact on Migration and Asylum: the attempt to uncouple the duty to fully respect and protect fundamental rights from the reality of migrants' presence on national territory. This objective is pursued by the proposed legislative package through non-entry fictions, capable of untangling the legal notion of "border" f

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch
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Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Politics and Governance ; 10 (2022) 2 ; 239-245

Classification
Recht

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Mannheim
(who)
SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
(when)
2022
Creator
Molinari, Caterina

DOI
10.17645/pag.v10i2.4968
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023081614455517784539
Rights
Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Molinari, Caterina
  • SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.

Time of origin

  • 2022

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