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, Jean Monnet Chair and Coordinator of the Academic Network for Legal Studies on Immigration and Asylum in Europe, Faculty of Law, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Contents:

1 The evolving EU asylum and migration law 1
Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi and Philippe De Bruycker

PART I CROSS-CUTTING THEMES
2 Institutional and constitutional framework 57
Daniel Thym
3 Effective judicial protection of migrants and refugees? The role of
Europe’s supranational courts in protecting and generating rights 79
Minos Mouzourakis and Cathryn Costello
4 Freedom of movement of EU citizens and mobility rights of
third-country nationals: where EU free movement and migration
policies intersect or disconnect? 98
Iris Goldner Lang
5 Digitalising the EU migration and asylum policy: a case study on
information systems 114
Niovi Vavoula

PART II ASYLUM
6 International refugee law and EU asylum law: accordance and influence 141
Paul McDonough and Tamara Tubakovic
7 Qualifying for international protection in the EU 168
Boldizsár Nagy
8 Asylum decision‑making, gender and sexuality 194
Thomas Spijkerboer
9 Reception conditions for asylum seekers: inherent duality 204
Lieneke Slingenberg
10 Vulnerable persons in EU asylum legislation: central feature or
necessity on the outskirts? 225
Lyra Jakuleviciene
11 Asylum procedures: seeking coherence within disparate standards 243
Jens Vedsted-Hansen
12 Responsibility allocation in the Common European Asylum System 263
Francesco Maiani
13 The informalisation of the external dimension of EU asylum policy: the
hard implications of soft law 282
Violeta Moreno-Lax

PART III LEGAL MIGRATION
14 Directive 2003/86 on the Right to Family Reunification: a surprising
anchor in a sensitive field 306
Kees Groenendijk and Tineke Strik
15 Migration for labour purposes: the EU’s piecemeal approach 328
Steve Peers
16 Non-discrimination and the challenge of integration 343
Moritz Jesse
17 The external dimension of the EU migration policy: the legal framing of
building partnerships with third countries 366
Paula García Andrade

PART IV THE FIGHT AGAINST IRREGULAR MIGRATION
18 The EU visa policy: to deter and to facilitate 391
Elspeth Guild and Maja Grundler
19 The management of the European Union’s external borders 408
Melanie Fink and Jorrit J. Rijpma
20 EU Return Directive: a cause for shame or an unexpectedly protective
framework? 436
Madalina Moraru
21 Criminalisation, containment and courts: a call for cross-fertilisation
between the social sciences and legal-doctrinal research into
immigration detention in Europe 456
Galina Cornelisse
22 Victimmigration: when smuggling becomes trafficking 472
Conny Rijken
23 EU readmission policy: a (shapeshifter) technical toolkit or challenge to
rights compliance? 487
Tamás Molnár

Index