Intertwining Criminal Justice and Immigration Control in the EU

Niovi Vavoula is Associate Professor and Chair in Cyber Policy at the University of Luxembourg. Her research interests involve EU immigration law, particularly the intersection of migration law and technology and criminalisation of migration, as well as IT law, with an emphasis on the regulation of cyberspace, AI, and data protection.Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi is Professor and Jean Monnet Chair in European Migration Law and Governance at the Law Faculty of Maastricht University.Valsamis Mitsilegas is a Professor of European and Global Law and Dean of the School of Law and Social Justice at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of 11 books and over 150 articles and chapters in the fields of European and transnational criminal law, migration law, security, human rights and the rule of law.

• 1. Intertwining Criminal Justice and Immigration Control in the EU: Theoretical, Interdisciplinary, and Practical Perspectives Niovi Vavoula and Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi 2. The EU’s Facilitators’ Package – In the Twilight of Fighting Organised Crime and the (Over)Criminalisation of Solidarity: A Comparative Evaluation Johannes Keiler3. Building Limits to the Over-Criminalisation of Facilitating Irregular Migration: The Kinsa case Francesca Cancellaro and Stefano Zirulia4. Who Is the "Vulnerable" Victim? Trafficked and Smuggled Persons as Victims of Crime Under EU LawMaja Grundler 5. Crimmigration as Hate Speech Alessandro Spena 6. Migrants’ Agency in Smuggling Routes: Criminalising Practices and Socio-Legal Implications in the EU Flavia Patanè7. Crimmigration through Administrative Surveillance of Civil Society at the EU’s External Borders, Niovi Vavoula and Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi8. Punitive Immigration Control for Difficult, Troublesome, or "Low Recognition" Asylum Seekers: On Waterbed Theory and Globalised Vagrancy LawGalina Cornelisse9. From Prevention to Repression: Penal Populism and the Changing Paradigm of Criminal Law to Counter Irregular Migration and Humanitarian AssistanceMarta Minetti10. Afterword: The Criminalisation of Migration as Preventive (In)JusticeValsamis Mitsilegas

This outstanding edited volume, gathering contributions from top specialists, brings EU migration law and EU criminal law in conversation with each other, delivering a thorough and topical exploration of the (ab)uses of criminal justice mechanisms for migration enforcement purposes, combining legal-doctrinal, theoretical, and socio-legal insights. It makes a critical contribution to ongoing debates, pushing the limits of “crimmigration” research in key ways that will remain influential for years to come.Violeta Moreno-Lax, Professor, ICREA-Universitat de Barcelona & Queen Mary University of LondonThis insightful and thought-provoking edited volume critically examines the intersection of criminal justice and immigration control in the EU. Offering a compelling analysis of crimmigration, it highlights its profound legal, ethical, and human rights implications. A must-read for scholars, policymakers, and anyone concerned with justice, migration, and fundamental rights.Anne Weyembergh, Professor and Vice-Rector of Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) for External Relations and Development CooperationIn many parts of the world, not least in the European Union, criminal law is increasingly used as an additional tool to regulate and govern migration. The contributors to this volume explore the many facets of this policy development and offer a cogently critical account from an interdisciplinary perspective.Bruno De Witte, Professor of European Law, Maastricht University