In mid-June 2026, the European Parliament gave its final approval to amendments to the EU rules on the return of third-country nationals staying irregularly in Union territory, by 418 votes to 218 with 30 abstentions.
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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.
The article asks whether the European Court of Human Rights’ case law on the detention of children for immigration purposes reflects an evolutive interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights as a living instrument.
Alethia Fernández de la Reguera’s *Inside the Bureaucracy of Immigration Detention* examines how immigration policy is implemented in Mexico, drawing on three years of qualitative research at the Siglo XXI Migration Station in Tapachula on the Guatemala border.
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.
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 on administrative detention and its alternatives in Turkish foreigners law explains that the 2014 Law on Foreigners and International Protection (LFIP) gave administrative detention a detailed statutory basis, yet practical problems concerning the right to liberty persisted.
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.
SIĞINMA ARAYANLARIN 2008/115/EC SAYILI GERI GÖNDERME KOŞULLARI AVRUPA KONSEY YÖNERGESI KAPSAMINDA SINIR DIŞI EDILMELERININ TÜRK YABANCILAR HUKUKU ILE KARŞILAŞTIRILMASI COMPARISON OF THE RETURN OF THE ASYLUM SEEKERS UNDER THE DIRECTIVE 2008/115/EC OF THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL WITH TURKISH FOREIGNERS LAW…
The article examines alternatives to immigration detention in international and comparative law, focusing on how such measures can be understood as restrictions on migrants’ fundamental rights and freedoms that are less severe than administrative detention.
Sabine Corneloup and Fabienne Jault-Seseke’s article addresses the French Immigration Law of 10 September 2018, which revised a wide range of rules in foreigners law.
Fabian Lutz’s article, published in the European Journal of Migration and Law, analyses the current status of Union law applicable to non-removable returnees and possible developments at EU level.
The article analyses the Returns Directive, whose adoption was enabled by an agreement between the European Parliament and the Council in June 2008 after protracted negotiations.
Claudia Finotelli; Giuseppe Sciortino authored the academic publication “The Importance of Being Southern: The Making of Policies of Immigration Control in Italy” in European Journal of Migration and Law, published on 2009-01-01.
Sassen authored the academic publication “Beyond Sovereignty: De-Facto Transnationalism in Immigration Policy” in European Journal of Migration and Law, published on 1999-01-01. The publication forms part of the private-international-law literature concerning Europe.