Fundamental Rights Challenges in Border Controls and Expulsion of Irregular Immigrants in the European Union

<p>This edited volume examines the extent to which the various authorities and actors currently performing border management and expulsion-related tasks are subject to accountability mechanisms capable of delivering effective remedies and justice for abuses suffered by migrants and asylum seekers.</p><p></p><p>Member states of the European Union and State Parties to the Council of Europe are under the obligation to establish complaint mechanisms allowing immigrants and/or asylum seekers to seek effective remedies in cases where their rights are violated. This book sheds light on the complaint bodies and procedures existing and available in Austria Greece Hungary Italy Spain Poland and Romania. It assesses their role in overseeing investigating and redressing cases of human rights violations deriving from violent border and immigration management practices and expedited expulsion procedures. This book therefore provides an assessment of the practical legal and procedural challenges that affect the possibility to lodge complaints and access remedies for human rights violations suffered at the hands of the law enforcement authorities and other security actors operating at land air and sea borders or participating in expulsions procedures – in particular joint return flights.</p><p></p><p>The volume will be of key interest to students scholars and practitioners working on human rights migration and borders international law European law and security studies EU politics and more broadly international relations.</p>