nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20220129-060328-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 220128s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20220129-060328-0 doi eng 342 23 Spijkerboer, Thomas Author aut International Migration Law and Coloniality Spijkerboer, Thomas Verfassungsblog 2022-01-28 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier 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. CC BY-SA 4.0 border control colonialism Decolonization migration law Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/international-migration-law-and-coloniality/ raw object