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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
May 2019
Print publication year:
2019
Online ISBN:
9781108677837
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108677837
Series:
Cambridge Asylum and Migration Studies
Subjects:
Area Studies, Law, Human Rights, European Studies, Politics and International Relations, European Government, Politics and Policy
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Book description

While nominally protected across Europe, the human rights of vulnerable migrants often fail to deliver their promised benefits in practice. This socio-legal study explores both the concrete expressions and possible causes of this persistent deficit. For this purpose, it presents an innovative multifaceted evaluation of selected judgments of the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the EU pertaining to such complex questions as the protection of persons fleeing from indiscriminate violence, homosexual asylum seekers, the Dublin Regulation, and the externalisation of border control. Highlighting the demanding character of migrant rights, the book also discusses some steps that could be taken to improve the effectiveness of Europe's supranational human rights system including changes in judicial and litigation practice as well as a reconceptualization of human rights as existential commitments.

Reviews

‘With a rigorous methodology and laser-precise analysis, Baumgärtel shows the potential - if adequately prompted by rights defenders - for the European judiciary to steer migration policies towards a better protection of the human rights of migrants, despite the increasing nationalist populist pressure towards tighter ‘securitisation' of the borders.'

François Crépeau - Hans and Tamar Oppenheimer Professor in Public International Law, McGill University, Montreal

‘Zooming in on one of the most contentious fields of contemporary human rights struggles - migrant rights - this excellent monograph investigates what can be expected of European supranational jurisdictions. The study of the impact and/or effectiveness of strategies is a crucial yet still underdeveloped aspect of human rights work. Baumgärtel has developed a method that allows him to assess the results of the work of the Strasbourg and Luxemburg courts. Admirably, this author resists the temptation of surfing on the wave of human rights skepticism. Instead, he chooses constructive engagement with human rights theory as well as with strategies of courts and litigators, aimed at optimizing effectiveness.'

Eva Brems - Ghent University, Belgium

‘[T]his book is highly recommended. The strength of Baumgärtel’s work lies in the clarity of his arguments despite the complexity of the subject; his clear guidance on how to unpack human rights adjudication; his convincing and novel approach of using a vast array of sociolegal sources, ranging from the empirical methods of case assessment to qualitative interviews; and his thorough and occasionally provocative assessment of prevailing shortcomings regarding the realization of vulnerable migrants’ rights, combined with numerous constructive proposals to advance these rights. These qualities make Demanding Rights a valuable contribution to theoretical critical human rights scholarship and to the work of human rights defenders alike.’

Lena Riemer Source: International Journal of Constitutional Law

‘Moritz Baumgärtel’s book … offers remarkably clear insight into the impact of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) jurisprudence on the actual protection of the rights of vulnerable migrants … Most importantly, he has included in the discussion the various stakeholders - courts, attorneys, state officials and, of course, migrants themselves. Adjusting remarkably well the theories of effectiveness to explain the perplexing and multi-dimensional causes and effects of European courts adjudication, Baumgärtel has created a book that is a valuable addition to the reading shelf both of a legal practitioner and a migrant rights advocate, introducing, simultaneously, a fresh set of ideas which could engage other researchers in fruitful discourse.’

Dimitra Fragkou Source: Human Rights Law Review

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