Lawless Borders

The Rule of Law Deficit in European Immigration Control
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5292-3778-8
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Immigration control in the West has increasingly focused on preventing migrants from reaching the external border and the territory of states. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the evolving preventive immigration control system and highlights the many ways in which contemporary border controls undermine the rule of law.

By examining border control practices at the state and European levels (including by EU agencies and through the use of AI), the book explores how these measures affect the rule of law across different areas, including extraterritorial immigration control, control of the external borders and the digitalization of border control.

This is an essential resource, presenting a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of today’s border management challenges.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guild, Elspeth

Mitsilegas, Valsamis

Vavoula, Niovi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Migrations- & Minderheitenpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part I: The Rule of Law Deficit in State Border Control Practices: From the External to the Externalised Border

1. The Proliferation and Mutation of Extraterritorial Immigration Control

2. The Rule of Law Deficit on the Border: The EU Migration Pact

3. Border Control through the Hostile Environment

Part II: Border Violence and Rule of Law: Examining the Role of Frontex, in Lawless Border

4. Borders, Power and Accountability: The Case of Frontex

5. Frontex: Management and Internal Oversight

6. EU External Oversight of Frontex and Border Violence

Part III: The Erosion of the Rule of Law through the Development of Europe’s Techno-Borders

7. Technology-led Border Surveillance and the Rule of Law: Eurosur as a ‘Foggy’ Network of Information Exchange

8. EU Large-scale IT Systems for Third-country Nationals Beyond the Rule of Law

9. From Digitalisation to Algorithmisation in European Border Management: Automation, Artificial Intelligence and the Rule of Law

10. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Vavoula, Niovi
Niovi Vavoula is Associate Professor and Chair in Cyber Policy at the University of Luxembourg.

Mitsilegas, Valsamis
Valsamis Mitsilegas is Dean of the School of Law and Social Justice and Professor of European and Global Law at the University of Liverpool.

Guild, Elspeth
Elspeth Guild is Professor of Law at the University of Liverpool and College of Europe Bruges.

Valsamis Mitsilegas is Dean of the School of Law and Social Justice and Professor of European and Global Law at the University of Liverpool.

Elspeth Guild is Professor of Law at the University of Liverpool and the College of Europe, Bruges.

Niovi Vavoula is Associate Professor and Chair in Cyber Policy at the University of Luxembourg.