Re­writ­ing Ab­dulaziz: The ECtHR Grand Cham­ber’s Ruling in Biao v. Den­mark

De­vel­op­ment sum­mary

K.M. (Karin) de Vries’s art­icle in the European Journ­al of Mi­gra­tion and Law re­vis­its the Grand Cham­ber judg­ment in Biao v. Den­mark against the back­drop of Ab­dulaziz, Cabales & Balkan­dali. It states that the Court found Danish family re­uni­fic­a­tion rules to amount to in­dir­ect ethnic dis­crim­in­a­tion against Danish na­tion­als of for­eign origin, and argues that the ruling offers pro­tec­tion to nat­ur­al­ised cit­izens while leav­ing the ste­reo­types un­der­ly­ing the dis­crim­in­a­tion un­ad­dressed.