International Migration and the Law

Angela Di Stasi is Full Professor of International Law and European Union Law, Department of Legal Sciences, University of Salerno and Rector’s Delegate for Equal Opportunities. Director of the “Observatory on the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice”. Director of the Journal “Freedom, Security & Justice: European Legal Studies”. Former Jean Monnet Chair Holder on “Judicial protection of fundamental rights in the European Area of Freedom, Security and Justice”.Ida Caracciolo is Full Professor of International Law, Department of Political Sciences, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”; Judge, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea; Member, Permanent Court of Arbitration; vice Arbitrator, OSCE Court of Arbitration and Conciliation; Member of various scientific societies and committees of law book series and journals. Editor and author of numerous books and articles in Public International Law.Giovanni Cellamare is Full Professor of International Law, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bari “Aldo Moro” and Head of the Department of International Law and European Union. Member of the scientific boards of several law journals. Editor and author of numerous articles and books in Public International Law and European Union Law.Pietro Gargiulo is Full Professor of International Law, Department of Political Science, University of Teramo. From 2016 he is Deputy Rector for Research Monitoring and from 2016 to 2019 he was Director of the Master’s Degree in International Political Studies. Editor-in-chief of the Review “La Comunità Internazionale”, Quarterly of the Italian Society for International Organization.

• Preface; Part I: The role of international cooperation in the management of migration flows; 1. The role of international cooperation in the management of migration flows and the integration of migrants; 2. International Organisation on Migration, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and “mixed movements”: migration governance between cooperation, overlapping mandates, and the influence of the States; 3. Mexico and the United States of America: feasible mutual migration agreements in the light of Agenda 2030; Part II: Migrant rights and situations of vulnerability; 4. On the social rights of irregular migrants; 5. The protection of refugee women health under international law; 6. Economic migrants and extra-European practices: considerations about the minimum guarantees of treatment; 7. The protection of migrants’ personal data; 8. ILO and the protection of female migrant domestic workers: ongoing limits and recent developments; 9. The central role of “migrantis voluntas” in the integration policies of legal immigrants: the state of the art of this protection in international law; 10. Right to family reunification of migrants and refugees in the Latin American system; 11. The relevance of social and family ties of third-country nationals: from protection against expulsion to the European arrest warrant; 12. Non-discrimination in accessing the welfare system. The effectiveness and primacy of EU law over Italian law; Part III: The role of International Courts and monitoring bodies in protecting migrant individual rights; 13. Human dignity as the basis and source of respect for the rights and freedoms of migrants: some elements of convergence in the case law of the European Courts (ECtHR and ECJ); 14. Crimes against migrants and refugees, the International Criminal Court, and EU leaders’ responsibility: a permanently open-ended response as to Security Council referral of the Libyan situation?; 15. Refugee status, terrorism, and public security: the relationship between international law and European Union law in light of recent EU Court of Justice case law; 16. The role of environmental severe degradation in national asylum cases: jurisprudential wake-up calls for the asleep (EU) legislator?; 17. Developing and consolidating the protection of unaccompanied minor migrants in Europe: the Court of Justice’s role; 18. Immigration detention: the assessment of non-European human rights control bodies; Part IV: Recent migration flows: evolving legal perspective and practice; 19. Rethinking legal categories on forced migration: Latin American specificity and possible fertilisation of the European system; 20. 40 years of forced migrations and refugees flows in South-East Asia: a regional model or a legal limbo?; 21. Economic and climate migration in Georgia; 22. Placing barriers against the disembarkation of rescued migrants: brief remarks on recent Italian practice from a human rights perspective; 23. Migrations and legal reforms in Tunisia among physical and digital circularity; 24. The protection of international migrants between international humanitarian law, international human rights law and international refugee law; 25. Islamic law in comparison: implications for the resolution of Muslim migrants’ cases and disputes; Part V: Coordination of EU Member States in migration management; 26. Managing migratory flows in the EU through temporary protection: issues and perspectives in the Ukrainian case; 27. The new EU Action Plan against migrant smuggling as a “renewed” response to the emerging challenges; 28. The role of the new FRONTEX in contrasting irregular immigration along the Atlantic route; 29. The EU’s Regional Development and Protection Programmes (RDPPS): effective or too ambitious (and ambiguous) protection tool?; 30. The detention of migrants at the EU’s borders: a serious violation of human rights and a threat to the rule of law; Part VI: Beyond the legal perspective; 31. The strategy of European Trade Unions for the protection of migrant workers; 32. Migration flows, integration and Agenda 2030: a quantitative analysis; 33. The role of linguistic and cultural mediators in migrant reception: some practical insights; 34. Irregular migrants in Moroccan law. An analysis of Arabic texts