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Assignment 1 (AS1) – 2023/24

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Reading List

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International Migration Law Discussion Forum

Module overview

Module Overview

Reading List

Week 1: 1. Introduction: overview of field, key sources and debates

Spijkerboer, The geopolitics of knowledge production

Hovil, Telling Truths about Migration

Nawyn, Migration in the Global South

Chetail, International Migration Law

Chetail, Sources of international migration law

‘Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance’ UN Doc. A/HRC/38/52 (25 April 2018)

Fear and loathing in South Africa

Immigration advice South Africa

Class I Introduction

Week 2: Key developments in the field of migration

Achiume, Reimagining International Law for Global Migration

Chetail, International Migration Law

Dauvergne, The New Politics of Immigration and the End of Settler Societies

Crepeau, Rejecting Criminalisation and Externalisation

Gilodi et al, Vulnerability in the Context of Migration

Key developments, with a particular focus on the role of race, class and gender in migration law

Week 3: Nationality, statelessness and rights

Girls Yean and Boscio v Dominican Republic

IHRDA and OSJI v Kenya

Edwards and van Waas Chapters

Will Hanley, Statelessness: An Invisible Theme in the History of International Law ,The European Journal of International Law Vol. 25 no. 1

Human Rights Council, Report on Human rights and arbitrary deprivation of nationality, A/HRC/25/28 2013

Nationality, statelessness and rights

Masters and Regilme, Human Rights and British Citizenship

Nationality, statelessness and rights

Week 4: Freedom of Movement

Perruchoud, State sovereignty and freedom of movement

Nalule, Defining the Scope of Free Movement of Citizens

Altundal U, The open borders debate, migration as settlement, and the right to travel. (2022) Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: 1–25

Tendayi Achiume, Digital Racial Borders, 2021

Freedom of Movement and Covid

Freedom of Movement Slides

Week 5: Migration Law and Human Rights: Migration Controls

Okwenje, Visa applications: emotional tax and privileged passports

Dauvergne, The New Politics of Immigration and the End of Settler Societies

Stumpf, Crimmigration Crisis

Case Comment Beghal v DPP

CASE OF BEGHAL v. THE UNITED KINGDOM judgement 28 February 2019

MN and Others v Belgium

Migration controls, with a particular focus on crimmigration

Week 6: Migration law and human rights: in country treatment

Desmond, The Private Life of Family Matters

Biao v Denmark

Chapters in Chetail and Bauloz

Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Advisory Opinion on children and migration

D.T. and A.A. v Canada

Migration Control and Human Rights

Right to family life &amp; privacy and migration control

Week 7: Human trafficking and smuggling

Dauvergne, Making People Illegal (Trafficking in Hegemony)

Edwards, Trafficking in Human Beings

Kotiswaran, From Sex Panic to Extreme Exploitation

Lee, Human Trafficking and Border Control in the Global South (Chapter 7)

Rantsev v Cyprus and Russia

Hacienda Brasil Verde Workers v Brazil

Human trafficking and smuggling

Week 8: The rights of Migrant Workers

Nessel, Human dignity or state sovereignty?

ILO, Global Estimates on International Migrant Workers, 2021

ILO, Fair recruitment and access to justice for migrant workers Discussion paper, 2022

Right to family life & privacy and migration control

Khattab & Mahmud, Migration in a turbulent time