Acknowledgements

The origins of this book are in the workshop ‘Is Europe Losing its Democratic Compass? Authoritarian Populism, Restrictions of Migrants’ Rights and Democratic Decay in Europe’, organized by Hasselt University and Lund University on 13–14 February 2020, in Lund. We, the editors, are grateful to the speakers (most of whom have contributed to this book) as well as to the Central Bank of Sweden (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond), which generously provided the financial support needed to organize the workshop.

We also wish to thank Cambridge University Press for giving us the possibility to share our research findings with the wider (academic) world and the Library of Lund University for enabling us to publish the electronic version of the volume under a Gold Open Access model. Special thanks, for excellent editorial support, go to Merel Alstein, Marianne Nield and everyone involved in the editing and production process at Cambridge University Press.

Last, but certainly not least, we extend our warm thanks to all contributors to this book, for having engaged constructively with our feedback and for having entered into genuine, articulate and profound debate on how to locate legal resilience against drastic curtailment of migrants’ rights in Europe.

We hope the analyses presented in this edited volume can bring us closer to securing better protection for the human rights of migrants in Europe.