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WiSe 15/16: European Immigration Law

Angelos Gerontas

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Course Outline

Description

This course provides an analysis of EU law relating to migration. The module is divided into six parts. The first part covers the law relating to the free movement of EU citizens and their families. The course then explores the entry of non-EU (third country) nationals and aspects of the external borders control. The third part analyzes the legal migration of third country nationals including long-term residents, economic migrants and family members. Then, the course focuses on the common EU Asylum system. The fifth part deals with issues of irregular migration. Finally, the course examines the role of human rights provisions for the EU Immigration and Asylum Law. The main textbook for this course will be European Migration Law (2nd edition, Intersentia, 2014) by Pieter Boeles, Maarten den Heijer, Gerrie Lodder, Kees Wouters, although materials will also be used from the other assigned textbooks. Lectures will be enriched with articles and court decisions.

Course Registration:

Please register via Campus Management, Module "Fremdsprachenfachkompetenz A or B"

Course Type:

Practical language exercise / 2 hrs per week

Frequency:

The course will be held in winter semester.

Assessment

Evaluation occurs on the basis of a final exam

Course Syllabus

I. Introduction

Session 1: Basic Concepts of Migration Law- Evolution, Institutional Framework and Sources of EU Immigration Law

Boeles et al., pp. 3-45

Steve Peers, Elspeth Guild, Diego Acosta, Kees Groenendijk and Violeta Moreno-Lax (eds.), EU Immigration Law (Text and Commentary), Volume 2 (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012), pp. 1-46

Kay Hailbronner, Chapter 1 in: Hailbronner (ed.), EU Immigration and Asylum Law, Commentary on EU Regulations and Directives (Beck, 2010), pp. 1-27.

II. Residence of EU Citizens and Members of their Family

Sessions 2-3: Free Movement of EU Citizens and Members of their Family- Residence Rights under Association Agreements

Boeles et al., pp. 49-126

C-34/09 Ruiz Zambrano

Kay Hailbronner/ Daniel Thym, Court of Justice of the European Union: Case C-34/09, Gerardo Ruiz Zambrano v. Office national de l’emploi (ONEm), Judgment of 8 March 2011, Common Market Law Review 48 (2011), 1253-1270

III. Entry of Third Country Nationals and External Borders Control

Boeles et al., pp. 375-385

Sessions 4-5: EU Visa Policy- The Schengen Borders Code

Steve Peers, Elspeth Guild and Jonathan Tomkin (eds.), EU Immigration Law (Text and Commentary), Volume 1 (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012), pp. 1-46

Annalisa Meloni, The Community Code on Visas: harmonisation at last?, European law review 34 (2009), 5, S. 671-695

Case C-503/03 Commission v. Spain

Joined Cases C-188/10 and 189/10 Melki & Abdeli

Session 6: External Borders Control by FRONTEX

Steve Peers, Elspeth Guild and Jonathan Tomkin (eds.), EU Immigration Law (Text and Commentary), Volume 1 (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012), pp. 119-204

ECtHR Case Hirsi, Jamaa and Others v. Italy, 23 February 2012

IV. Legal Migration

Session 7: The Family Reunification Directive

Boeles et al., pp. 129-154

Session 8: Long-Term Residents

Boeles et al., pp. 176-198

Steve Peers, The Court of Justice lays the foundations for the Long-Term Residents Directive: Kamberaj, Commission v. Netherlands, Mangat Singh, Common Market Law Review 50 (2013), 2, pp.. 529-551

Session 9: i) Immigration for Purposes of Work, Research and Study

- Blue-Card Directive

- Researchers Directive

- Students Directive

- Single Application Procedures Directive

Boeles et al., pp. 154- 176

Case C-15/11 Leopold Sommer

ii) Social Security Coordination

Peers et al., Volume 2, pp. 335-362

Nicolas Rennuy, The emergence of a parallel system of social security coordination, Common Market Law Review 50 (2013), 5, pp. 1221-1266

V. The Common EU Asylum System

Boeles et al., pp. 243- 256

Session 10: The Dublin Regulation

Boeles et al., pp. 257-267

Mathias Hermann, in: Hailbronner (ed.), EU Immigration and Asylum Law, Commentary on EU Regulations and Directives (Beck, 2010), pp. 1368-1421.

Joined Cases C-411/10 and C-493/10 N.S.

Session 11: EU Asylum Law Directives

Boeles et al., pp. 267-291

VI. Irregular Migration

Session 12: The Mutual Recognition of Expulsion Decisions of Third Country Nationals- The Returns Directive

Peers et al., Volume 2, pp. 523- 536

Diego Acosta Arcarazo, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in EU Migration Law’. European Journal of Migration and Law, Volume 11, Number 1, 2009 , pp. 19-39

C-357/09 Kadzoev

C-61/11 El Dridi

C-329/11 Achoughbabin

Session 13: i) The Readmission Agreements

Carole Billet, EC Readmission Agreements: A Prime Instrument of the External Dimension of the EU’s Fight against Irregular Immigration. An Assessment after Ten Years of Practice, European Journal of Migration and Law Volume 12, Number 1, 2010, pp. 45-79

ii) Victims of Human Trafficking- Employer Sanctions

Peers et al., Volume 2, pp. 401-408/ 431-444/ 461-467

VII. Human Rights and EU Immigration and Asylum Law

Session 14: International Refugee Protection and the Qualification Directive

Boeles et al., pp. 293-340

Session 15: Protection against the Expulsion under the ECHR

Boeles et al., pp. 199-240/ 341-371

ECtHR Case M.S.S. v. Belgium and Greece, 21 January 2011

ECtHR Case Saadi v. Italy, 28 February 2008

ECtHR Case Üner v. the Netherlands, 18 October 2006

ECtHR Case Maslov v. Austria, 22 March 2007

VIII. Final Review

Session 16: Review of the Multi-Level Structure of EU Immigration Law