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A right-based approach to migration policies in a context of emergencies: ’Expelling States’ and semi-persons in the European Union

Tuesday 28 April 2009, by Fernández Bessa Cristina, Manavella Alejandra, Silveira Gorski Héctor C.

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The European socio-political climate and its repercussions on person’s rights and liberties trigger multiple challenges. The widening process of the European Union (EU), the hardening of legislation on immigration and terrorism, and the new practices of police and security services make the basic principles and values on which consolidated European democracies lay tilt.

Human beings that do not have the appropriate legal documents or that should be recognized as refugees are held in detention, discriminated and treated as semi-persons under the protection of especial and emergency laws that go beyond the limits of a state based on the Rule of Law.

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