Human Rights Issues in Migration and Border Management

Foreword 9
List of Abbreviations 11
Contributors 13
Introduction 17
Ivan Sammut

Prelude – European Migration Law 19

1 Migration and Border Management: Challenges and Perspectives for Reform 21
Ivan Mifsud
2 EU Migration Law: From Schengen to the Externalisation of Border Control – Quo Vadis? 23
Ivan Sammut

Part I – Legal-Anthropological Perspectives on Border Management in the European Mediterranean 43
3 Of Iliad and Odyssey: Competing Spectacles of Migration in a Spanish Enclave in Northern Africa 45
Brian Campbell
4 The Gatekeeper of ‘Fortress Europe’: Constructing the ‘Self ’ and the ‘Other’ at the Moroccan-Spanish Border 65
Ibtisam Sadegh
5 The Encampment of the World 83
Elise Billiard-Pisani

Part II – Land Border: Challenges and Perspectives for Reform
6 The Great Migration and Asylum Games: From the Serengeti to the Mediterranean – Which Law Prevails? 101
Ivan Sammut
7 The New EU-UK Land Border: Legal Issues over Asylum and Migration in the Light of the Nationality and Borders Bill 2022 111
Ayesha Riaz
8 The Prospect of Temporary Protection Reform in the Light of the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis 129
Oleksandr Pastukhov
9 Readmission Agreements: Function & Fundamental Rights Implications 141
Steffi Vella Laurenti
10 The Legal Framework for the Management of the Influx of Displaced Persons from Ukraine: The Example of France 167
Kiara Neri
11 All in the Name of Quality: Making Life Harder for the Third Country Migrant Worker 177
Ivan Mifsud

Part III – Sea Border: Challenges and Perspectives for Reform 187
12 Migration in the Mediterranean Sea: Management within and beyond Borders 189
Dimitra Papageorgiou & Eva Tzavala
13 From St Paul to Feilazoo v Malta, from Asylum Law to the Sale of Citizenship – How Malta and EU Law Lost l’esprit de l’Europe and the Way Forward 205
Ivan Sammut

Conclusions 219
14 Immigration: Balancing Human Rights and Public Opinion Sensitivities in an EU Peripheral State 221
Anthony Borg