nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/62fce8d640d64d9b DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 240510s2024||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/62fce8d640d64d9b doi eng 342 23 Sormunen, Milka Author aut (orcid)0000-0001-9220-2029 Legalising Illegality - Finland's Proposed Pushback Legislation Sormunen, Milka Verfassungsblog 2024-05-10 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Following Russia’s on-going facilitation of migrants to the Finnish border since last fall, Finland’s newly formed right-wing coalition government has closed the eastern land border indefinitely on 4 April 2024. Worried that this step will not be enough to ensure national security, the government is finalising a Draft Act on Temporary Measures to Combat Instrumentalised Migration, currently under revision.The draft bill allows for pushbacks in violation of non-refoulement and openly admits a conflict with Finland’s human rights obligations, EU law and own constitutional system, which is unusual. The unprecedented nature of the proposed measures is particularly worrying given that the Act appears unlikely to effectively address the essentially political problem that “migrant instrumentalisation” poses. CC BY-SA 4.0 Derogation Finland Migrant Instrumentalisation migrant instrumentalization pushbacks Rule of Law Russia Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/legalising-illegality/ raw object