nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/05429da5c5d2e2c4 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250606s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/05429da5c5d2e2c4 doi eng 342 23 Schmalz, Dana Author aut Migrant “Instrumentalisation” before the ICJ - The Case of Lithuania v. Belarus Schmalz, Dana Verfassungsblog 2025-06-06 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 19 May, Lithuania introduced proceedings against Belarus before the International Court of Justice for the alleged smuggling of migrants. Lithuania claims that Belarus violated provisions of the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, which supplements the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. This blog will detail several difficulties with Lithuania’s argument which seeks to collapse key differences between migrant smuggling and the practice of migrant “instrumentalisation”. CC BY-SA 4.0 ICJ Immigrant Smuggling Lithuania Migrant Instrumentalisation Right to Asylum Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/migrant-instrumentalisation-before-the-icj/ raw object