(e) Extraterritorial Immigration Control

  Main Debates What are the Potential Arguments for and against the Legality of Forced ProcessingOutside the Territory of the EU?What Practical Problems Could Result from Such a Policy?What are the Potential Implications of Making Financial Assistance to Non-EU States Conditional upon more Restrictive Border Control?  Main Points External Relations Policy as Tool for Non-EU States to Carry out EU Policies Future Prospect of External Processing of Asylum Applications   EU Documents 'Communication from the Commission to the Council the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. Migration and Development: some concrete orientations’ COM (2005) 390.  'Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on the managed entry in the EU of persons in need of international protection and the enhancement of the protection capacity of the regions of origin "Improving access to durable solutions”', COM (2004) 410, 4 June 2004. ‘Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on Regional Protection Programmes’, COM (2005) 388, 1 September 2005.   UNHCR Documents UNHCR, ‘Observations on the Communication on Regional Protection Programmes’, 10 October 2005. ReadingsCore M. Garlick, ‘The EU Discussions on Extraterritorial Processing: Solution or Conundrum?’, International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 18, nos. 3–4 (September/December 2006), pp. 601M.T. Gil-Bazo, ‘The Practice of Mediterranean States in the context of the European Union’s Justice and Home affairs External Dimension. The Safe Third Country Concept Revisited’, International Journal of Refugee Law, vol.18, nos. 3-4 (September/December 2006), pp. 571.O. Lynskey, ‘Complementing and completing the Common European Asylum System: a legal analysis of the emerging extraterritorial elements of EY refugee protection policy’, European Law Review, vol. 31, no. 2 (2006), pp. 230–250.G. Noll, ‘European Integration and Extraterritorial Protection’, in G. Noll, Negotiating Asylum, (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2000), pp. 117–161.ExtendedS. Kneebone, C. McDowell, and G. Morrell, ‘A Mediterranean Solution? Chances of Success’, International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 18, nos. 3-4 (September/December 2006), pp. 492–508.

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Section I Introduction to International Refugee Law: Background and Context


Section II International Framework for Refugee Protection


Section III European Framework for Refugee Protection


Section IV UNHCR and Other Actors Relevant to International Asylum Law

(e) Extraterritorial Immigration Control

 

Main Debates

What are the Potential Arguments for and against the Legality of Forced Processing
Outside the Territory of the EU?
What Practical Problems Could Result from Such a Policy?
What are the Potential Implications of Making Financial Assistance to Non-EU States Conditional upon more Restrictive Border Control?
 

Main Points

External Relations Policy as Tool for Non-EU States to Carry out EU Policies

Future Prospect of External Processing of Asylum Applications

 

EU Documents

'Communication from the Commission to the Council the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. Migration and Development: some concrete orientations’ COM (2005) 390. 

'Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on the managed entry in the EU of persons in need of international protection and the enhancement of the protection capacity of the regions of origin "Improving access to durable solutions”', COM (2004) 410, 4 June 2004.

‘Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on Regional Protection Programmes’, COM (2005) 388, 1 September 2005.

 

UNHCR Documents

UNHCR, ‘Observations on the Communication on Regional Protection Programmes’, 10 October 2005.

Readings
Core

M. Garlick, ‘The EU Discussions on Extraterritorial Processing: Solution or Conundrum?’, International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 18, nos. 3–4 (September/December 2006), pp. 601

M.T. Gil-Bazo, ‘The Practice of Mediterranean States in the context of the European Union’s Justice and Home affairs External Dimension. The Safe Third Country Concept Revisited’, International Journal of Refugee Law, vol.18, nos. 3-4 (September/December 2006), pp. 571.

O. Lynskey, ‘Complementing and completing the Common European Asylum System: a legal analysis of the emerging extraterritorial elements of EY refugee protection policy’, European Law Review, vol. 31, no. 2 (2006), pp. 230–250.

G. Noll, ‘European Integration and Extraterritorial Protection’, in G. Noll, Negotiating Asylum, (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2000), pp. 117–161.

Extended
S. Kneebone, C. McDowell, and G. Morrell, ‘A Mediterranean Solution? Chances of Success’, International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 18, nos. 3-4 (September/December 2006), pp. 492–508.

EU Documents

Communication from the Commission to the Council the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. Migration and Development: Some Concrete Orientations

'Communication from the Commission to the Council the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. Migration and Development: Some Concrete Orientations’ COM (2005) 390.

Communication from the Commission on the managed entry in the EU of persons in need of international protection and the enhancement of the protection capacity of the regions of origin "Improving access to durable solutions"

'Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on the managed entry in the EU of persons in need of international protection and the enhancement of the protection capacity of the regions of origin "Improving access to durable solutions"', COM (2004) 410, 4 June 2004.

Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on Regional Protection Programmes

‘Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on Regional Protection Programmes’, COM (2005) 388, 1 September 2005.

UNHCR Documents

Observations on the Communication on Regional Protection Programmes

UNHCR, ‘Observations on the Communication on Regional Protection Programmes’, 10 October 2005.

Readings

Core

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The EU Discussions on Extraterritorial Processing: Solution or Conundrum?

M. Garlick, ‘The EU Discussions on Extraterritorial Processing: Solution or Conundrum?’, International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 18, nos. 3–4 (September/December 2006), pp. 601
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The Practice of Mediterranean States in the context of the European Union’s Justice and Home affairs External Dimension

M.T. Gil-Bazo, ‘The Practice of Mediterranean States in the context of the European Union’s Justice and Home affairs External Dimension. The Safe Third Country Concept Revisited’, International Journal of Refugee Law, vol.18, nos. 3-4 (September/December 2006), pp. 571.
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Complementing and completing the Common European Asylum System: a legal analysis of the emerging extraterritorial elements of EY refugee protection policy

O. Lynskey, ‘Complementing and completing the Common European Asylum System: a legal analysis of the emerging extraterritorial elements of EY refugee protection policy’, European Law Review, vol. 31, no. 2 (2006), pp. 230–250.
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European Integration and Extraterritorial Protection

G. Noll, ‘European Integration and Extraterritorial Protection’, in G. Noll, Negotiating Asylum, (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2000), pp. 117–161.

Extended

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A Mediterranean Solution? Chances of Success

S. Kneebone, C. McDowell, and G. Morrell, ‘A Mediterranean Solution? Chances of Success’, International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 18, nos. 3-4 (September/December 2006), pp. 492–508.