Spijkerboer Lab

Ghent University

Vlaams Gewest (BE2) · Belgium

ERC-funded
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ERC Advanced Grant · 2023

Global Migration Justice: Beyond conflicting approaches to migration in international human rights law

MIGJUMIGJUST addresses the unacknowledged, fundamental conflict between the European Court of Human Rights, which in its migration case law adopts a sovereignty approach normalising sedentarism, and the Inter-American and African human rights Commission and Court which adopt a human rights approach normalising mobility. This fragmentation of international law also plays out in UN human rights Committees. This fragmentation is not acknowledged in academic work, in which the European approach is assumed to represent the most advanced version of international law. This fragmentation is problematic because it undermines the international character of international law. Legal doctrine overlaps…

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