Courts are influential actors during the implementation of immigration policies in liberal
democracies. The “liberal paradox” thesis stipulates that courts are driven by logics that …

As notions of human capital and personal autonomy have become integral to constructions
of social membership, we have witnessed the incursion of market mechanisms into many …

ABSTRACT Throughout the European Union, national governments are amending family
reunification laws in order to restrict migration flows. Migration scholars point out that the …

Irregular immigration ranks high on Europe's political agenda (Triandafyllidou 2016).
Southern and eastern European countries have intensified controls at the external European …

Based on interviews with bureaucrats and judges in several Swiss cantons, this article
analyzes how bureaucrats decide to order immigration detention and how the judicial review …

Over the last few years, many of the civil society organizations engaged in search and
rescue activities in the Central Mediterranean have been targeted in different ways by public …

Theories of migration policies have paid particular attention to the questions why migration
policies fail or why liberal states accept unwanted migration. While this literature offers …

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is the most active international court. After
decades with few allegations of human rights abuses, the ECHR docket expanded in the …

Policies concerning undocumented immigrants are inevitably ambivalent, creating
uncertainty and confusion in the implementation process. We identify a clear example of this …

Over the last few years, the welfare rights of illegalized migrants living in Belgium have
become increasingly restricted. Without a legal residence status, such rights are limited to …