http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20220129-060328-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/international-migration-law-and-coloniality/ International Migration Law and Coloniality Spijkerboer, Thomas eng 2022-01-28 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 border control colonialism Decolonization migration law Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 In European human rights law, it is taken for granted that states have the sovereign right to regulate migration. A right to be admitted to a country of which one is not a national, or a right not to be expelled, exists only in exceptional cases. In this blogpost, I look at the origins of “the right to control the entry of non-nationals”. These are to be found in a shift in the colonial labour system which occurred in the second half of the 19th century. It is this history which explains the inequality represented on the map above.