Francesco Spera addresses how the European Union’s use of soft-law instruments in responding externally to migration and asylum crises relates to the principles of the Treaties and the integration process.
Ingrid V Eagly addresses the difficulties unaccompanied migrant children face in accessing legal information, guardians and free legal assistance during international-protection and status-regularisation procedures in EU Member States.
Efrat Arbel traces how Canada’s asylum reforms between 2020 and 2026 transformed its refugee-protection system and affected its legal obligations towards asylum seekers.
Arian Henning’s Verfassungsblog post, “Computer Says No”, is dated 10 August 2026 and discusses the draft KI-Migrationsverwaltungsgesetz adopted by the German federal cabinet on 29 July 2026.
The article examines the United Kingdom’s post-Brexit migration and asylum policies in light of the non-refoulement principle and its international-law obligations.
the academic publication “Comparative study of border externalisation and the future of international refugee law”, published on 2026-07-08. The publication forms part of the private-international-law literature concerning United States; European Union; European states.
Lorenzo Bernardini’s article, published in the Journal of Perpetrator Research as “Mass Immigration Detention: Thorny Pathologies and Large-Scale Impact”, examines mass immigration detention in Europe through the EU migration-law framework and the ECHR.
Noa Campello Carballido’s article addresses the legal treatment of separated children arriving via the Atlantic route to the Canary Islands and how the right to respect for family life under Article 8 of the ECHR is calibrated in that setting.
Hanen Medromi treats Moroccan border law not simply as a question of territorial boundaries, but as a composite legal regime operating across land, air and maritime borders.
Sara Ceballos Padrón and Vladimir Eneraldo Núñez Herrera’s article examines how protection against gender-based persecution has developed in migration law through a multilevel framework, positioned between the United Nations Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration and the European…
Miriana Strippoli’s article in the Journal of Peace and Diplomacy examines international refugee law through a meta-juridical lens in the context of migration governance in a fragmented world.
Janka Deli and Katerina Linos examine the EU Migration and Asylum Pact as it became applicable across the Union after a two-year transition. The piece sits within foreign nationals law and concerns the EU-level framework governing international protection and related application procedures.
Alessia di Pascale writes that, with fewer than two weeks remaining before the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum becomes fully applicable on 12 June 2026, Member States’ adaptation of their national systems to the new framework remains incomplete.
Georgios Athanasiou’s article in the European Journal of Migration and Law says EU Member States are increasingly relying on national security to justify restrictive migration measures and refoulement at the external borders, and argues that this produces a “securitization cascade” that gradually…
Joseph Choe examines the CBP One app in relation to the American government’s moral and legal obligations towards asylum seekers. The central legal problem is how this digital tool relates to the protection owed to people seeking asylum.
Marion Panizzon’s article examines how the 2006 France–Senegal Bilateral Migration Agreement is assessed under national immigration law and the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum.
The Council of Europe’s 15 May 2026 Chișinău Declaration is presented here as a migration-and-asylum statement that can be read in two ways: as a continuation of the status quo or as a subtle rebalancing of the Convention system.
This journal article by Leon Rauch, published in the European Journal of Migration and Law, examines the use of border procedures under the EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum in processing asylum applications.
Hülya Kaya’s article in the European Journal of Migration and Law reviews how the Turkish Constitutional Court has dealt with the assumption that Turkey functions as a “safe third country” and “first country of asylum” after the 2016 EU–Turkey Statement.
This article by Zeynep Derya Tarman and Meltem Ece Oba examines the Court of Justice of the European Union’s Grand Chamber judgment of 16 January 2024 in Case C-621/21 in the context of international protection for women victims of gender-based violence.
This chapter examines the sovereignty, migration and asylum narratives surrounding the Brexit referendum and the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the EU.
This article examines administrative detention decisions and the practical problems arising in Turkish foreigners law. It is relevant to private international law through the treatment of the foreigner’s status and the procedural safeguards linked to deportation.