CORNELISSE, Galina and Madalina Bianca MORARU. Judicial Interactions on the European Return Directive: Shifting Borders and the Constitutionalisation of Irregular Migration Governance. European papers: A Journal on law and Integration. 2022, vol. 7, No 1, p. 127-149. ISSN 2499-8249. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.15166/2499-8249/551.
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Original name Judicial Interactions on the European Return Directive: Shifting Borders and the Constitutionalisation of Irregular Migration Governance
Authors CORNELISSE, Galina and Madalina Bianca MORARU (642 Romania, belonging to the institution).
Edition European papers: A Journal on law and Integration, 2022, 2499-8249.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 50501 Law
Country of publisher Italy
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
WWW Open access časopisu
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14220/22:00125841
Organization unit Faculty of Law
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.15166/2499-8249/551
Keywords in English Return directive – judicial interaction – borders – national courts– Court of Justice of the European Union – European Court of Human Rights.
Tags rivok
Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
This Article examines the dynamics between shifting borders – the border as a legal construct instead of a geographical barrier – and law by analysing the role of courts and judicial interactions in the implementation of the Return Directive in Europe. We argue that legislation that states may have introduced primarily to shift and reinvigorate their borders nevertheless holds a promise of opening up more, instead of less, space for legal claims for migrant justice, especially if such legislation is applied by judges across different legal orders. We look at the impact of judicial interactions by European and domestic courts on the Return Directive in three areas in which states have attempted to shift their borders for maintaining irregular migration within exclusive domestic competences: the merging of criminal justice and immigration policing; detention as immigration enforcement; and the legal and social exclusion of irregular migrants. We show that in all these fields, judicial interactions have set into motion a process of incremental constitutionalisation of irregular migration in Europe in two ways. First, such interactions have resulted in extended judicial review over a legal field which has traditionally been considered an exceptional branch of law under the purview of executive control. Secondly, they have allowed irregularly staying migrants, as a group largely excluded from the legal and political processes that characterise modern constitutionalism, to have their interests translated into rights that can be litigated and enforced. By focusing on judicial interactions regarding immigration enforcement, this Article fills a gap in contemporary research on the role of courts in immigration policy which has so far predominantly analysed adjudication of immigration status.
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MUNI/J/0815/2021, interní kód MUName: The Role of Courts in Shaping Migrants' Rights (Acronym: REFORM)
Investor: Masaryk University, MASH JUNIOR - MUNI Award In Science and Humanities JUNIOR
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