Securitising Asylum Flows

Valsamis Mitsilegas (Ph.D. University of Edinburgh) is Professor of European Criminal Law and Global Security at Queen Mary University of London.Violeta Moreno-Lax (Ph.D. Université catholique de Louvain, 2012) is Reader in Law at Queen Mary University of London.Niovi Vavoula (Ph.D. Queen Mary University of London, 2017) is Lecturer in Migration and Security at Queen Mary University of London.

• AbbreviationsIntroductionPart 1: Criminalising Movement1 New Experiences in Investigating and Prosecuting Migrant Smuggling: From the Italian Approach to the European DimensionSimona Ragazzi2 Criminalising Solidarity? Smugglers, Migrants and Rescuers in the Reform of the ‘Facilitators’ Package’Chiara Maria Ricci3 A Human Rights Approach to Extremely Vulnerable People: Challenges and Feasibility in Assessing Smuggled MigrantsKinga JanikPart 2: (Non-)Access to Protection4 Balancing the SAR Responsibilities of States and ShipmastersRichard L Kilpatrick, Jr and Adam Smith5 Crossing the Mediterranean Sea: EU Migration Policies and Human RightsEvelien Wauters and Samuel Cogolati6 Legal Narratives of the EU External Action in the Field of Migration and Asylum: From the EU-Turkey Statement to the Migration Partnership Framework and BeyondDaniela VitielloPart 3: A Union of Solidarity?7 The European Border and Coast Guard in Need of Solidarity: Reflections on the Scope and Limits of Article 80Herbert Rosenfeldt8 The Dublin Saga and the Need to Rethink the Criteria for the Allocation of Competence in Asylum ProceduresMarcello Di Filippo9 Uniformity, Responsibility and Solidarity in the Common European Asylum System (CEAS): A ‘Constitutional’ SolutionFrancesco CherubiniPart 4: The Politics and Policies of Coercion10 The EU Refugee Crisis and the ‘Third-Phase’ Asylum Legislation – The End of the Harmonization Approach or Its Revival?Giulia Vicini11 EU and US Border Policy: Externalisation of Migration Control and Violation of the Right to AsylumSabrineh Ardalan12 ‘Recasting’ Detention of Asylum Seekers: Human Rights Law, EU Law and Its Application in BulgariaVladislava StoyanovaIndex