Migration in the Mediterranean

Francesca Ippolito is Senior Lecturer in European Union Law at Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy, where she teaches, researches and publishes in European Union and international migration law and human rights. Seline Trevisanut is Assistant Professor of International Law at the Law School, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, where her research interests include international law, the law of the sea, international migration law, international environmental law, human rights law, and international economic law.

Part I. Multilevel Cooperation in the Mediterranean: 1. Conceptualising a migrant's rights-based EuroMed cooperation: political, legal and judicial rationale Francesca Ippolito; 2. EuroMed, migration, and frenemy-ship: pretending to deepen cooperation across the Mediterranean Elena Basheska and Dimitry Kochenov; 3. The League of Arab States and the protection of migrants Mervat Rashmawi and Janeen Rishmawi; 4. The roles of the African Union and its Member States in managing migration across the Mediterranean Martin Welz; 5. Expanding protection space in Libya and Tunisia after the 'Arab Spring': reflections on UNHCR's evolving role in mixed migration Elizabeth Eyster and Emanuela Paoletti; 6. Strengthening the cooperation between IOM and the EU in the field of migration Julinda Bequiraj; Part II. Managing Regular and Irregular Migration in the Mediterranean: 7. Euro-Mediterranean labour migration: a mutually beneficial partnership? Anja Wiesbrock; 8. Regulating migration and asylum in the Maghreb: which inspiration for an accelerated legal development? Delphine Perrin; 9. The EU external border policy: managing irregular migration to Europe Seline Trevisanut; 10. The EU and the obligation of non-refoulement at sea Efthymios Papastavridis; 11. Obligation to readmit? The relationship between interstate and EU readmission agreements Maria Giulia Giuffré; 12. The cooperative mechanism established by the migrant smuggling protocol to the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime Patricia Mallia.