ABSTRACT
This edited volume examines the extent to which the various authorities and actors currently performing border management and expulsion-related tasks are subject to accountability mechanisms capable of delivering effective remedies and justice for abuses suffered by migrants and asylum seekers.
Member states of the European Union and State Parties to the Council of Europe are under the obligation to establish complaint mechanisms allowing immigrants and/or asylum seekers to seek effective remedies in cases where their rights are violated. This book sheds light on the complaint bodies and procedures existing and available in Austria, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Poland, and Romania. It assesses their role in overseeing, investigating, and redressing cases of human rights violations deriving from violent border and immigration management practices, and expedited expulsion procedures. This book therefore provides an assessment of the practical, legal, and procedural challenges that affect the possibility to lodge complaints and access remedies for human rights violations suffered at the hands of the law enforcement authorities and other security actors operating at land, air, and sea borders, or participating in expulsions procedures – in particular, joint return flights.
The volume will be of key interest to students, scholars, and practitioners working on human rights, migration and borders, international law, European law and security studies, EU politics, and more broadly, international relations.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |21 pages
Introduction
part I|99 pages
Complaint mechanisms in the context of border controls and expulsions at land and air borders
chapter 1|18 pages
Keeping up appearances
chapter 5|15 pages
Human rights violations in expulsion cases and during enforced returns
part II|93 pages
Complaint mechanisms in the context of sea borders and maritime surveillance
chapter 7|27 pages
Search and rescue, disembarkation, and relocation arrangements in the Mediterranean
chapter 8|22 pages
Border management at the external Schengen Borders
chapter 9|19 pages
A practical evaluation of border activities in Romania
part III|72 pages
Justicing international, regional, and EU standards