Illegally Staying in the EU

Benedita Menezes Queiroz is a Teaching Assistant at the School of Transnational Governance of the European University Institute, Florence and Senior Research Fellow at CIDP - Lisbon Centre for Research in Public Law.

1. ‘What Part of Illegality Don’t You Understand?’: Illegality in EU Migration Law
I. Introduction
II. Conceptual Analysis
III. Legal Sources
IV. EU Institutional Framework
V. Conclusion
2. The Case of Unlawfully-staying EU Citizens
I. Introduction
II. Illegally-staying Third-country Nationals and Unlawfully-staying EU Citizens
III. Conclusion
3. Non-removable Migrants in the EU
I. Introduction
II. The Definition and the Causes of the Non-removability of Irregular Migrants in EU Law
III. The Atypical Status of Non-removable Irregular Migrants
IV. The Remedies for Non-removability: National and European Perspectives
V. Conclusion
4. The Potential Effects of Information Technology Vis-à-Vis Illegality
I. Introduction
II. EU Immigration Databases Under Construction
III. The Erosion of the Purpose Limitation Principle
IV. Enhanced Accessibility versus Proportionality and Necessity Concerns
V. From Immigration to General Intelligence Databases?
VI. What’s Next for Immigration Information Systems? A Brand New World of Transnational Surveillance of Illegality or the Same Old Story?
VII. The Era of Potential Digital Criminalisation of Illegally-staying Third-country Nationals
VIII. Conclusion
5. Access to Legality in the EU: An Instrumental or Corrective Mechanism?
I. Introduction
II. Access to Legality in EU Migration Law: The Definition, Instrumental Use and Corrective Potential
III. Part I: The Instrumentalisation of the Access to Legality
IV. Part II: The Potential Corrective Role of Access to Legality at the Supranational Level
V. The Corrective Function of Regulating Legality from an EU Law Perspective
VI. Conclusion