When Humans Become Migrants Study of the European Court of Human Rights with an Inter-American Counterpoint

by Dembour, Marie-Bénédicte

• ISBN13: 9780199667833
• ISBN10: 0199667837
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-05-19
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Marie-Benedicte Dembour, Professor of Law and Anthropology, University of Sussex

Marie-Benedicte Dembour is Professor of Law and Anthropology at the University of Sussex. She has also taught at the European University Institute, the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, and the University of Oxford. She has authored and edited numerous previous titles.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
Part I: Foundational Moments
2. The Alien in the Social Imagination of the Founding Texts: Art. 16 ECHR v. Art. 22 ACHR
3. Post-Colonial Dereliction: The False Promises of the European Commission s Report on the East African Asian Case
4. Dislocating Families: The ABC Judgment of the European Court Says It All
5. Not so Threatening Others: Costa Rican Naturalization Provisions under the Scrutiny of the Inter-American Court
Part II: Consolidation
6. Shattered Lives: The Normalization of Foreigners Deportation under Article 8 ECHR
7. An Absolute with Many Buts : The Prohibition of a Return to Torture
8. All Equals? Why Gaygusuz Failed to Create a New Line of Jurisprudence
9. The Voice of the Inter-American Court: Equality as Jus Cogens
Part III: Prospects: Detention as a Case Study
10. Velez Loor
11. MSS v. Belgium and Greece
12. Muskhadzhiyeva v. Belgium
13. Saadi v. United Kingdom
14. Conclusion