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.
Francesca Cimino, Beatrice Grasso and Fabio Perocco examine the status and access to social rights of third-country nationals in Italy who are subject to expulsion orders but cannot be returned for legal, practical or policy-related reasons.
This article by Ilke Taşdemir, published in the Journal of international relations and political science studies, addresses climate-change-related migration and the debate on “climate refugees” through the European Union’s role in the context of the United Nations Conferences of the Parties.
Çağla Ekin Guner investigates how solidarity with refugees became institutionalised at urban level in Hamburg and Izmir, comparing two institutions founded in 2020 that developed from earlier local initiatives.
Ravit Talmi-Cohn’s article in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies examines how Zera Beta Israel (ZBI) migrants navigate Israel’s overlapping migration regimes through the concept of “limited hybridity.”
This article by Sinan Veziroğlu and Mustafa Atatorun examines European Union refugee policy from a normative perspective. It is an academic contribution situated at the intersection of refugee status, international protection and the private international law dimension of aliens law.
This article by Hélia Bracons and José Rodrigues examines migrants’ access to essential rights and services in contexts of inequality. It sits within foreigners law and migration law, with a comparative angle on access to rights.
Elena Barham and Marco Alcocer’s preprint investigates the security consequences of border externalisation—by which destination states press transit countries to intensify migration enforcement—through the 2019 Migrant Protection Protocols (“Remain in Mexico”).
Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg’s article in Scandinavian Studies in Law addresses how human rights are applied in cross-border family matters and what this means for the mission of private international law, with particular reference to women’s rights.
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.
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.