Unit name | Migration Law and Policy - International, European, and Human Rights Dimensions |
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Unit code | LAWDM0112 |
Credit points | 30 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24) |
Unit director | Professor. Achilles Skordas |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | University of Bristol Law School |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
The unit explores the international, European and human rights dimensions of migration law and policy, including immigration and asylum law and policy, and is divided into two main parts. The first part discusses immigration, including the relevant provisions of the Lisbon Treaty, directives, the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights, as well as the provisions and practice of other treaty systems (International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Migrant Workers Convention). The second part focuses on the status and rights of refugees in European and international law and discusses, in particular, the 1951 Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol, the practice of the UNHCR, the EU directives, the Dublin system and the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights. Particular attention will be given to issues relating to war refugees, including in particular Syrian refugees, as well as to the management of migration flows arriving in Europe from North Africa.
Aims:
By the end of this unit, students are expected to be able to:
Two-hour seminars (ten)
One three-hour closed book examination in May/June, in which students answer 3 questions from a choice of 8. The assessment will assess all the Intended Learning Outcomes for this unit.
Formative - students should do one formative assessment and may do two
1. K.Hailbronner, European Immigration and Refugee Law Commentary, Beck/Hart, 2010); 2nd edition 2015 (forthcoming)
2. S. Peers, EU Justice and Home Affairs Law, (3rd edition, OUP 2011)
3. R. Cholewinski/R. Perruchoud/E. MacDonald, International Migration Law Developing Paradigms and Key Challenges, (Asser Press 2007)
4. A. Zimmermann, The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol: A Commentary (Oxford Commentaries on International Law, OUP 2011)
5. J. Hathaway, The Rights of Refugees under International Law (CUP, 2005)
6. Guy Goodwin-Gill/Jane McAdam, The Refugee in International Law (3nd edition, OUP 2007)
7. E. Feller/V. Tuerk/F. Nicolson (eds.), Refugee Protection in International Law UNHCRs Global Consultations on International Protection (UNHCR, CUP, 2003)
Further reading:
8. D. Acosta Arcarazo, The Long-Term Residence Status as a Subsidiary Form of EU Citizenship. An Analysis of Directive 2003/109 (Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden, 2011).
9. A. Baldaccini, E. Guild, H. Toner (eds), Whose freedom, security and justice? : EU immigration and asylum law and policy (Hart, Oxford, 2007).