Silveira Gorski Héctor C.

This author's articles

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

  28 April 2009
  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.

• Los problemas del asilo en la frontera sur de España

  22 de mayo de 2006
  The right of asylum is not guaranteed at all in Spain. The starting point of this situation are the Asylum Law reform of 1994, the inadequate administrative management and the lack of resources. In this context, Asylum policies have turned into a restrictive sense regarding liberties, rights and guarantees of refugees and asylum seekers. The lack of a real European immigration policy and of political will of European governments to face up the new waves of economical migration, and their plans of turning Europe into a «fortress» have contributed in shaping today’s characteristics of asylum policies.