Research Handbook on EU Migration and Asylum Law

Edited by Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi, Assistant Professor and Dutch Research Council grantee (NWO VENI and NWO Hestia), Faculty of Law and Maastricht Centre for European Law, Maastricht University, the Netherlands and Philippe De Bruycker, Professor, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Coordinator of the Odysseus Academic Network, Belgium

• Contents:1 The evolving EU asylum and migration law 1Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi and Philippe De BruyckerPART I CROSS-CUTTING THEMES2 Institutional and constitutional framework 57Daniel Thym3 Effective judicial protection of migrants and refugees? The role ofEurope’s supranational courts in protecting and generating rights 79Minos Mouzourakis and Cathryn Costello4 Freedom of movement of EU citizens and mobility rights ofthird-country nationals: where EU free movement and migrationpolicies intersect or disconnect? 98Iris Goldner Lang5 Digitalising the EU migration and asylum policy: a case study oninformation systems 114Niovi VavoulaPART II ASYLUM6 International refugee law and EU asylum law: accordance and influence 141Paul McDonough and Tamara Tubakovic7 Qualifying for international protection in the EU 168Boldizsár Nagy8 Asylum decision‑making, gender and sexuality 194Thomas Spijkerboer9 Reception conditions for asylum seekers: inherent duality 204Lieneke Slingenberg10 Vulnerable persons in EU asylum legislation: central feature ornecessity on the outskirts? 225Lyra Jakuleviciene11 Asylum procedures: seeking coherence within disparate standards 243Jens Vedsted-Hansen12 Responsibility allocation in the Common European Asylum System 263Francesco Maiani13 The informalisation of the external dimension of EU asylum policy: thehard implications of soft law 282Violeta Moreno-LaxPART III LEGAL MIGRATION14 Directive 2003/86 on the Right to Family Reunification: a surprisinganchor in a sensitive field 306Kees Groenendijk and Tineke Strik15 Migration for labour purposes: the EU’s piecemeal approach 328Steve Peers16 Non-discrimination and the challenge of integration 343Moritz Jesse17 The external dimension of the EU migration policy: the legal framing ofbuilding partnerships with third countries 366Paula García AndradePART IV THE FIGHT AGAINST IRREGULAR MIGRATION18 The EU visa policy: to deter and to facilitate 391Elspeth Guild and Maja Grundler19 The management of the European Union’s external borders 408Melanie Fink and Jorrit J. Rijpma20 EU Return Directive: a cause for shame or an unexpectedly protectiveframework? 436Madalina Moraru21 Criminalisation, containment and courts: a call for cross-fertilisationbetween the social sciences and legal-doctrinal research intoimmigration detention in Europe 456Galina Cornelisse22 Victimmigration: when smuggling becomes trafficking 472Conny Rijken23 EU readmission policy: a (shapeshifter) technical toolkit or challenge torights compliance? 487Tamás MolnárIndex

‘Within Europe as elsewhere, the issues of asylum and migration are deeply fraught, sparking contestations around identity, sovereignty, security, rights, soli-darity, and responsibility. The Research Handbook on EU Migration and Asylum Law is a valuable resource for readers seeking a comprehensive examination of the legal landscape informing these themes. The edited volume presents a rich set of reflections on the current legal complexities impacting the movement of people across borders in and around the European Union.’