The European Union's Pact on Migration and Asylum
A Fresh Start?
The European Union's Pact on Migration and Asylum
A Fresh Start?
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This timely edited collection offers a critical and multidisciplinary examination of the European Union's Migration and Asylum Pact, marking the third major reform phase of the Common European Asylum System.
As the EU seeks to present a unified and effective response to migration challenges, the Pact introduces sweeping changes-from border procedures and asylum processing to external partnerships and data-driven governance.
Bringing together leading scholars, legal practitioners, and NGO experts, the collection explores the Pact's implications ahead of its implementation. Contributors interrogate its legal foundations, political motivations, and operational mechanisms, offering insights into how the EU balances efficiency with fundamental rights, solidarity with sovereignty, and innovation with accountability.
Organised around four central themes - political solidarity, border management, external cooperation, and rights compliance - the volume highlights the tensions and contradictions within the Pact. It asks: Can the EU harmonise divergent national approaches to migration? Will faster procedures compromise legal safeguards? How will partnerships with third countries affect asylum seekers' rights?
With chapters covering topics such as AI at the border, the coloniality of digital technologies, and the role of EU institutions in enforcement and oversight, this book is an essential resource for academics, policymakers, lawyers, and students. It offers not only a critique but also a roadmap for understanding the future of asylum governance in Europe.
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Table of Contents
Part I: Politics and Solidarity in the EU's Asylum Management System
1. Law, Politics and the Inversion of Crises, Romit Bhandari (University of East London, UK)
2. The New Dublin System and Flexible Solidarity, Laura Pascual Matellán (University of Salamanca, Spain)
Part II: At the Border – Harmonisation, Efficiency and Technology
3. A Window into the Future: Border Procedures on Lesvos, Aaron Bosman and Ana Liz Chiban (Humanitarian Legal Aid, Greece)
4. Security by Design, Rights as Afterthought: Have EU Member States Understood the Data Rights Challenges Under the New Eurodac Regulation? Hanna Stoll (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
5. Towards an EU Data-Driven Visa Policy: Harmonisation and Fundamental Rights, Annalisa Meloni (University of East London, UK)
6. The Screening Regulation and the AI Act: A Legal Testing Ground for High-Risk AI Technologies at EU Borders, Elif A Korkut (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
Part III: External Cooperation with Third Countries
7. Asylum, Borders and Digital Technologies: The Coloniality of Power in Techno-Borderscapes, Giorgia Doná (University of East London, UK)
8. Mapping EU Externalisation with a Critical Eye, Ermioni Xanthopoulou (Brunel University, UK)
9. EU Asylum and Migration Pact and EU Informal Cooperation with Third Countries: Consolidating Existing Practices? Céline Hocquet (British Institute of International and Comparative Law, UK)
10. Testing Grounds of the EU Migration Pact: Balkan Countries as Experimentation Regions for Migrant and Asylum-Policy Implementation, Rozita Dimova (Sts. Cyril and Methodius University, North Macedonia)
Part IV: Fundamental Rights and Compliance
11. Bordering on Accountability: Legal Evasion, Evidentiary Gaps, and Institutional Responsibility in the European Integrated Border Management, Joyce De Coninck (European University Institute, Belgium) and Giulia Raimondo (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland)
12. Compliance at Stake: The EU Agency for Asylum's Role in Balancing Enforcement and Fundamental Rights, Salvo Nicolosi (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
13. Safe Third Countries: Genealogy and Resistance, Romit Bhandari and Annalisa Meloni (University of East London, UK)
14. Assessing the Feasibility of the New Pact's Legal Counselling Promise: Lessons from the Greek Asylum System, Dilahan Bice Kurtoglu (University of Warwick, UK)
Conclusions, Romit Bhandari (University of East London, UK), Michael J Geary (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Annalisa Meloni (University of East London, UK), and Jennifer Redmond (Maynooth University, Ireland)
Product details
| Published | 04 Feb 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 352 |
| ISBN | 9781509996155 |
| Imprint | Hart Publishing |
| Series | Modern Studies in European Law |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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