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.
Elisa Ortega Velázquez’s article in the Mexican Law Review argues that US migration governance between 2017 and 2025 moved from coercive securitisation to a hegemonic form of control, spanning Trump’s first presidency, the Biden administration and the opening of Trump’s second presidency.
This academic article examines the wellbeing of high school international students living in homestays in Ontario, Canada, and the regulatory gaps affecting that setting.
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.
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.
Ayşegül Dursun and Meltem Ineli Ciğer’s article addresses the protection available to migrants and refugees who travel irregularly by sea under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), together with the duties of states in that setting.
In this second edition, Ersin Yilmaz and Nazim Taha Koçak bring together decisions of the Turkish administrative courts on disputes arising under Law No. 6458 on Foreigners and International Protection.
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.
Laura Salzano’s note in the European Journal of Migration and Law discusses the CJEU’s 18 December 2025 judgments in Hamoudi v Frontex and WS and Others v Frontex.
Lukhmonjon Isokov’s contribution concerns the moral geography of mobilities, placing movement and mobility at the centre of its discussion within migration and foreigners law.
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.
Nitish Monebhurrun, Leonardo Cavalcanti Da Silva and Maria José Rigotti examine the work and protection of Brazilian migrants abroad through multisited approaches and theoretical perspectives.
The article addresses the fact that EU free-movement law does not specifically regulate the situation of minor EU citizens, so they are often treated merely as family members of their EU-citizen parents.