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International Journal of Migration and Border Studies

International Journal of Migration and Border Studies (IJMBS)

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International Journal of Migration and Border Studies (2 papers in press)

Special Issue on: OA Global Mobility Law Rethinking the Role of Law in Movement Across Borders

  •   Free full-text access Open AccessReconciling the tensions of the European deportation regime: how the law shapes compulsory mobility across borders
    ( Free Full-text Access ) CC-BY-NC-ND
    by Anouk Lamé 
    Abstract: This contribution explores the role played by European, human rights and national law in contemporary deportation practices. Different forms of deportation, such as returns, Dublin transfers and expulsions, are built upon a broad set of rules and practices. Taken together these rules enable states to lawfully and compulsorily displace hundreds of thousands of individuals across European borders every year. Drawing on insights from different legal frameworks of deportation and on a large-scale dataset of deportation judgments in French lower courts, this article shows that deportation is regulated in the European Union by an overarching and complex European deportation regime. The nature of deportation as a form of compulsory mobility enforced through individual orders which can be challenged in courts, positions national judges as key actors in this regime. This article contributes to existing scholarship on law and human mobility by documenting how the law and judicial practices shape compulsory mobility.
    Keywords: deportation; deportability; compulsory mobility; European migration law; French administrative law; border control; expulsion; Dublin transfer; refusal of entry; empirical legal studies; France.
    DOI: 10.1504/IJMBS.2026.10079949
     
  •   Free full-text access Open AccessFreedom of movement, sovereignty, and the Third World in postwar international law (1948-1968)
    ( Free Full-text Access ) CC-BY-NC-ND
    by Sara Cosemans 
    Abstract: This article examines how actors from the decolonised periphery - including delegates from Latin America, India, Lebanon, and the Philippines - helped articulate and defend freedom of movement in international law between 1948 and 1968. Drawing on travaux preparatoires, UN debates, and legal commentary, it traces the contested codification of internal movement, exit, and return in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. While postcolonial advocacy proved decisive in shaping the formulation of these rights, their scope was constrained by limitations, uneven ratification, and interpretive practices that enabled selective enforcement. The article argues that freedom of movement emerged as a qualified achievement: a norm forged through negotiation and entanglement, yet structurally vulnerable to geopolitical instrumentalisation and postcolonial migration control. Adopting a TWAILinformed lens, it highlights how sovereignty arguments operated as techniques for preserving imperial discretion within a formally universal human rights order.
    Keywords: freedom of movement; sovereignty; Third World; international law; TWAIL; Universal Declaration of Human Rights; UDHR; International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; ICCPR; Latin America; Middle East; South(east) Asia; Cold War; decolonisation; postcolonial advocacy.
    DOI: 10.1504/IJMBS.2026.10079950
     

 

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