Law and Migration: Law and Migration
About the Book Series
Migration and its subsets of refugee and asylum policy are rising up the policy agenda at national and international level. Current controversies underline the need for rational and informed debate of this widely misrepresented and little understood area. Law and Migration contributes to this debate by establishing a monograph series to encourage discussion and help to inform policy in this area. The series provides a forum for leading new research principally from the Law and Legal Studies area but also from related social sciences. The series is broad in scope, covering a wide range of subjects and perspectives.
Undesirable but Unremovable Migrants: War Criminals, Terrorists and Foreign Offenders in Limbo
1st Edition
By Joris Van Wijk, Maarten Bolhuis
March 04, 2026
Across the globe, tens of thousands of alleged ‘criminal’ migrants find themselves trapped in limbo. They are unwanted in the countries hosting them but cannot be deported because they are stateless, because human rights law or lack of political will prevents it, or because they themselves do not ...
Inside Asylum Appeals: Access, Participation and Procedure in Europe
1st Edition
By Nick Gill, Nicole Hoellerer, Jessica Hambly, Daniel Fisher
December 26, 2025
Appeals are a crucial part of Europe’s asylum system but they remain poorly understood. Building on insights and perspectives from legal geography and socio-legal studies, this book shines a light on what takes place during asylum appeals and puts forward suggestions for improving their fairness ...
Irregular Migration, Refugee Status and the Law: Protection from Dangerous Migratory Journeys
1st Edition
By Maja Grundler
August 29, 2025
Through an investigation of the protection needs of ‘irregularised migrants’, this book offers a novel approach to the phenomenon of irregular migration by reframing it as a matter of refugee law. Thousands of people have died, disappeared and suffered mental and physical harm on their dangerous ...
Protection of Human Life at Sea in International Law: Rescuing Maritime Migrants
1st Edition
By Aphrodite Papachristodoulou
May 30, 2025
The law of the sea imposes a long-established duty to rescue persons in distress, which connotes one of the most important tools in safeguarding safety of life at sea. Other rules of international law, namely, international human rights and refugee law also come into play in drawing the legal ...
Migrants and the Courts: A Century of Trial and Error?
1st Edition
By Geoffrey Care
October 02, 2023
Written in a lively and engaging style from the perspective of a leading immigration judge, this book examines how states resolve disputes with migrants. The chapters reflect on changes in the laws and rules of migration on an international and regional basis and the impact on the parties, ...
Persecution, International Refugee Law and Refugees: A Feminist Approach
1st Edition
By Mathilde Crépin
May 06, 2022
This book explores the ambit of the notion of persecution in international law and its relevance in the current geopolitical context, more specifically for refugee women. The work analyses different models for interpreting the notion of persecution in international refugee law through a ...
Refugees, Democracy and the Law: Political Rights at the Margins of the State
1st Edition
By Dana Schmalz
May 06, 2022
The book provides an in-depth discussion of democratic theory questions in relation to refugee law. The work introduces readers to the evolution of refugee law and its core issues today, as well as central lines in the debate about democracy and migration. Bringing together these fields, the book ...
Human Rights and The Revision of Refugee Law
1st Edition
By Romit Bhandari
April 29, 2022
This book addresses the relationship between International Refugee Law and International Human Rights Law. Using international refugee law’s analytical turn to human rights as its object of inquiry, it represents a critical intervention into the revisionism that has led to conceptual fragmentation ...
Implementing EU Mobility Partnerships: Putting Soft Law into Practice
1st Edition
By Fanny Tittel-Mosser
April 29, 2022
This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the effectiveness of Mobility Partnerships and their consequences for third countries. Mobility partnerships between the EU and third countries are usually viewed as reflecting asymmetric power relations where development aid, trade relations and ...
Law and Asylum: Space, Subject, Resistance
1st Edition
By Simon Behrman
March 31, 2021
In contrast to the claim that refugee law has been a key in guaranteeing a space of protection for refugees, this book argues that law has been instrumental in eliminating spaces of protection, not just from one’s persecutors but also from the grasp of sovereign power. By uncovering certain ...
Refugee Law and Durability of Protection: Temporary Residence and Cessation of Status
1st Edition
By Maria O’Sullivan
December 18, 2020
This book examines the link between refugee protection, duration of risk and residency rights. It focuses on two main issues of importance to current state practice: the use of temporary forms of refugee status and residency and the legal criteria for cessation of refugee status under Article 1C(5)...
Conflict Displacement and Legal Protection: Understanding Asylum, Human Rights and Refugee Law
1st Edition
By Charlotte Lülf
September 30, 2020
While the 21st century bears witness to several conflicts leading to mass displacement, the conflict in Syria has crystallised the need for a solid legal framework and legal certainty.This book analyses the relevant legal instruments for the provision of a protection status for persons fleeing to ...