Human Rights and Immigration

Ruth Rubio Marin is a Professor Constitutional and Public Comparative Law in the Law Department at European University Institute. She is an expert in constitutional law, human rights law, citizenship and migration law, transitional justice and feminist legal theory and has published several works on migration issues.

• Introduction ; 1. Human Rights and Immigration at Sea ; 2. Are Refugee Rights Human Rights? An Unorthodox Questioning of the Relations between Refugee Law and Human Rights Law ; 3. The Asylum/Convention Refugee Process in the United States and Canada ; 4. Italy and Unauthorized Migration: Between State Sovereignty and Human Rights Obligations ; 5. The Labour and Social Rights of Migrants in International Law ; 6. Integration in Immigrant Europe: Human Rights at a Crossroads ; 7. Residence as de facto Citizenship? Protection of Long-Term Residence under Article 8 ECHR ; 8. Migration, Gender and the Limits of Rights

All of the contributions in Human Rights and Immigration participate in a critical questioning of the power of human rights law in setting limits to state sovereign discretion and allocating responsibility for human well-being in migration contexts (p 11). It will undoubtedly appeal international lawyers, be they specialised in human right law or more broadly interested in migration issues.