Migrants' Rights, Populism and Legal Resilience in Europe

Vladislava Stoyanova is Associate Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, Lund University, Sweden. Her research interests cover international human rights law, refugee and migration law. She is the author of Human Trafficking and Slavery Reconsidered: Conceptual Limits and States' Positive Obligations in European Law (2017). Stijn Smet is Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law at Hasselt University. He is the author of Resolving Conflicts between Human Rights: The Judge's Dilemma (2017) and co-editor of When Human Rights Clash at the European Court of Human Rights: Conflict or Harmony? (2017). He is also co-editor-in-chief of the Strasbourg Observers blog.

Introduction: Migrants' Rights, Populism and Legal Resilience in Europe Stijn Smet and Vladislava Stoyanova; Part I. Theoretical and Critical Perspectives on Resilience: 1. Populism, Immigration and Liberal Democracies: Inherent Instability or Tilting of the Balance? Vladislava Stoyanova; 2. On Population Design. Using Migration Law to Dismantle Constitutional Democratic Institutions Patricia Mindus; 3. Viciously Circular: Will Ageing Lock the European Union Into Immigrant Exclusion? Gregor Noll; Part II: Resilience at the European Level: 4. Coloniality and Recent European Migration Case Law Thomas Spijkerboer; 5. Migration as a Constitutional Crisis for the European Union Alezini Loxa and Vladislava Stoyanova; 6. Possibilities and Limits of European Union Action against Democratic Backsliding and Decline of Migrants' Rights in Member States Jan Wouters and Maaike De Ridder; 7. The Loss of Face for Everyone Concerned: EU Rule of Law in the Context of the 'Migration Crisis' Barbara Grabowska-Moroz and Dimitry Kochenov; Part III. Resilience at the National Level: Case Studies: 8. In the Hands of a Populist Authoritarian: The Agony of the Hungarian Asylum System and the Possible Ways of Recovery Kriszta Kovács and Boldizsár Nagy; 9. 'Good Change' and the Migration Policy in Poland. In a Trap of Democracy Barbara Mikołajczyk and Mariusz Jagielski; 10. Criminalising Migrants and Securitising Borders: the Italian 'No Way' Model in the Age of Populism Stefano Zirulia and Giuseppe Martinico; 11. The Restriction of Refugee Rights During the ÖVP-FPÖ Coalition 2018-2019 in Austria: Consequences, Legacy and Potential for Future Resilience against Populism Margit Ammer and Lando Kirchmair; 12. Right-Wing Populism, Crumbling Migrants Rights and Strategies of Resistance in Belgium Ellen Desmet and Stijn Smet; 13. A Stable Yet Fragile System? Legal Resilience against Rights Erosion in Current Swedish Migration Policy Rebecca Thorburn Stern and Anna-Sara Lind; 14. 'Populism? It's Administrative Law, Stupid!' How Administrative Law Subverts Legal Resilience' Bas Schotel; Index.