The European Union Returns Directive and its compatibility with international human rights law : : analysis of return decision, entry ban, detention, and removal / / by Izabella Majcher.

• Superior document: Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy in Europe; volume45
• VerfasserIn: Majcher, Izabella,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill Nijhoff,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy in Europe; volume45.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland), 2017).

The book undertakes a thorough human rights assessment of the EU Returns Directive. The overarching human rights framework, which circumscribes states prerogatives in the context of expulsion, builds upon obligations derived from the principle of non-refoulement; the right to life, respect for family and private life, effective remedy, basic social rights; the prohibition of torture and ill-treatment; and protection against arbitrary detention and collective expulsion. Based on this assessment, Majcher explores several protection gaps in the EU return policy which may result in violations of migrants’ rights and highlights how the provisions of the Directive should be implemented in line with member states’ human rights obligations. Informed by this assessment, the book discusses amendments to the Directive, proposed by the European Commission in September 2018. “By examining the European Union (EU) Returns Directive in the light of international and European human rights law, Izabella Majcher thoroughly explores and analyses the requirements the EU member states’ authorities must guarantee migrants in an irregular situation when they adopt and implement return decisions, entry bans, pre-removal detention, and removal.” Marie-Laure Basilien-Gainche, Professor of public international law, University Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Honorary member of the Institut universitaire de France

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Country Codes -- Part 1 -- / Introduction -- 1 The Returns Directive against the Background of International and EU Human Rights Law: Setting the Scene -- 1.1 The Returns Directive -- 1.1.1 / Presentation of the Returns Directive -- 1.1.2 / Instruments Required for the Implementation of the Returns Directive -- 1.1.3 / The Returns Directive within the EU Asylum and Immigration Policy -- 1.2 Sources of the Human Rights Protection in the Context of Expulsion -- 1.2.1 / International Human Rights Law -- 1.2.2 / EU Human Rights Law -- 1.3 The Need for a Human Rights Assessment of the Returns Directive in the Context of the Recast Process -- Part 2 -- / Return Decision -- Introduction: The Scheme of Return under EU Law -- 2 Human Rights Impediments to Return -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Principle of Non-Refoulement -- 2.2.1 / The Scope of the Principle of Non-Refoulement -- 2.2.2 / Implementation of the Principle of Non-Refoulement -- 2.3 Family and Private Life -- 2.3.1 / The Scope of the Concepts of Family and Private Life -- 2.3.2 / The Implementation of the Right to Respect for Family and Private Life -- 2.4 Conclusion -- 3 Procedural Safeguards -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Prohibition of Collective Expulsion -- 3.3 The Right to Be Heard Prior to Adoption of the Return Decision -- 3.4 Effective Remedy -- 3.4.1 / Accessibility of Remedy -- 3.4.2 / Effectiveness of Remedy -- 3.5 Additional Child-Specific Safeguards -- 3.5.1 / The Right to Be Heard -- 3.5.2 / The Guardianship Assistance for Unaccompanied Children -- 3.6 Conclusion -- 4 Social Rights Pending Return -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Health Care -- 4.3 Education -- 4.4 Adequate Standard of Living -- 4.4.1 / Basic Conditions of Subsistence Addressed in the Preamble of the Directive -- 4.4.2 / Can Destitution Entail a Duty to Regularise? -- 4.5 Conclusion -- Conclusion: Legal Limbo for Non-Deportable People -- Part 3 -- / Re-Entry Ban -- Introduction: Entry Ban as Pan-European Effect of Return Decision -- 5 Entry Ban in the Light of the Principle of Proportionality -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Nature of Entry Ban -- 5.3 The Schengen-Wide Character of Entry Ban -- 5.4 Conclusion -- 6 Human Rights Impediments to Entry Ban -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The Principle of / Non-Refoulement -- 6.2.1 / Endorsement of the Principle of Non-Refoulement in Relation to Entry Ban -- 6.2.2 / Implementation of the Principle of Non-Refoulement in Relation to Entry Ban -- 6.3 Family and Private Life -- 6.4 Conclusion -- 7 Protection of Personal Data Stored in a SIS Alert -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The Right to Data Protection -- 7.2.1 / The Right to Information -- 7.2.2 / The Right of Access -- 7.2.3 / The Right to Correction and Deletion of Data -- 7.2.4 / The Right to a Remedy -- 7.3 The Right to Private Life -- 7.4 Conclusion -- Conclusion: Schengen-Wide Entry Ban: a / Triple P.