International Migration Law and Coloniality
Spijkerboer, Thomas
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2022
Verfassungsblog
2022-01-28
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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.
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Spijkerboer, Thomas
border control
colonialism
Decolonization
migration law
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https://verfassungsblog.de/international-migration-law-and-coloniality/
Verfassungsblog
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Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH
10.17176/20220129-060328-0
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