Immigration Detention and Human Rights

Galina Cornelisse, Ph.D. (2007) in Law, European University Institute, is Lecturer in Constitutional Law at Utrecht University. She has published on immigration detention in the European Journal of Migration and Law and a number of other journals and edited books.

• Excerpt of table of contents:Acknowledgments; Abbreviations;1Introduction: Immigration Detention in Contemporary Europe;PART I: THEORY: 2Sovereignty, People and Territory; 3Limiting Sovereign Power;PART II: DOCTRINE AND PRACTICE: 4 Freedom of Movement I: The Right to Leave as a Human Right;5 Freedom of Movement II: Decisions on Entry as a Sovereign Prerogative?; 6Reaffirming Sovereignty and Reproducing Territoriality: Deportation and Detention;7International Human Rights Law on Immigration Detention; 8The ECtHR: Detention as a ‘Necessary Adjunct’ to an ‘Undeniable Sovereign Right’?; PART III: CONCLUSIONS: 9 Destabilizing Territorial Sovereignty through Human Rights Litigation in Immigration Detention Cases; Bibliography; Table of Cases.