Externalizing Asylum

A compendium of scientific knowledge

Below you will find further external information on externalization. The collection includes scientific publications and podcasts as well as contributions from politics, civil society, and the media.

There is no claim to completeness, and the overview is continuously updated. Please send suggestions to contact(at)externalizingasylum.info.

Additional publications are available on the Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog by Elisa Mason, see the posts on border controls, https://fm-cab.blogspot.com/search/label/border%20controls, and on extraterritorial effects, https://fm-cab.blogspot.com/search/label/extraterritorial%20effect

 

Afeef, K. F. (2006). The Politics of Extraterritorial Processing: Offshore Asylum Policies in Europe and the Pacific, RSC Working Paper Series, No. 36.

Angenendt, S., Biehler, N., Kipp, D., Koch, A., & Bossong, R. (2024). The Externalisation of European Refugee Protection. A Legal, Practical and Political Assessment of Current Proposals, SWP Comment, https://doi.org/10.18449/2024C13.

Aviat, M. (2024). Externalising Refoulement Through New Technologies: The Case of Frontex’s Specific Situational Pictures under the Lens of EU Non-Contractual Liability. Netherlands International Law Review, 71, 177–198. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40802-024-00255-7.

Badalič, V. (2018). Tunisia’s Role in the EU External Migration Policy: Crimmigration Law, Illegal Practices, and Their Impact on Human Rights. Journal of international migration and integration, 20(1), 85-100. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-018-0596-7.

Benjelloun, S. (2024). The Influence of Diplomatic and Foreign Policy Considerations in the Making of Migration and Asylum Policy in Morocco. European Journal of Migration and Law, 26(2), 224-240. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718166-12340178.

Bisong, A. (2020). Migration Partnership Framework and the Externalization of European Union’s (EU) Migration Policy in West Africa: The Case of Mali and Niger. In Rayp, G., Ruyssen, I., and Marchand, K. (eds.). Regional Integration and Migration Governance in the Global South. Springer, pp. 217-237.

Bousiou, A. (2021). Peripheralisation and externalisation of the EU asylum regime: implications for the right to seek asylum on the southeastern EU border islands. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 48(19), 4586-4602. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2022.2097063.

Briddick, C. (2024). When Treaties are Forbidden. Verfassungsblog. https://dx.doi.org/10.59704/7ed84996bca17cba.

Briddick, C., & Costello, C. (2023). Supreme Judgecraft: Non-Refoulement and the end of the UK-Rwanda ‘deal’?, Verfassungsblog. https://dx.doi.org/10.59704/6ac71ea278f0af98.

Cantor, D., Tan, N. F., Gkliati, M., Mavropoulou, E., Allinson, K., Chakrabarty, S., Grundler, M., Hillary, L., McDonnell, E., Moodley, R., Phillips, S., Pijnenburg, A., Reyhani, A.-N., Soares, S., & Yacoub, N. (2022). Externalisation, Access to Territorial Asylum, and International Law. International Journal of Refugee Law, 34(1), 120-156. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eeac023.

Carrera, S., Santos Vara, J., & Strik, T. (2019). Constitutionalising the External Dimensions of EU Migration Policies in Times of Crisis: Legality, Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights Reconsidered. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Collyer, M., & Shahani, U. (2023). Offshoring Refugees: Colonial Echoes of the UK-Rwanda Migration and Economic Development Partnership. Social Sciences, 12(8), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12080451.

Cornelisse, G., & Reneman, M. (2022). Border Procedures in the European Union: How the Pact Ignored the Compacts. Laws, 11(3), 38. https://doi.org/10.3390/laws11030038.

Costello, C. (2020). Overcoming Refugee Containment and Crisis. German Law Journal, 21(1), 17-22. https://doi.org/10.1017/glj.2019.89.

Dastyari, A., Nethery, A., & Hirsch, A. (eds.) (2022). Refugee Externalisation Policies: Responsibility, Legitimacy and Accountability. Routledge.

De Genova, N. (2017). The Borders of “Europe”: Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822372660.  

Digidiki, V., & Bhabha, J. (2021). Against the best interests of the child. The global injustice of migrant externalisation. In Weber, L., & Tazreiter, C. (eds.), Handbook of Migration and Global Justice. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 100-118. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789905663.

Djurovic, R. (2024). A Normative View from the Periphery: Serbia and the EU Asylum Acquis. European Journal of Migration and Law26(2), 197-223. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718166-12340177.

Ellebrecht, S. (2020). Mediated Bordering: Eurosur, the Refugee Boat, and the Construction of an External EU Border. transcript Verlag.

El-Sayed. (2024). The Elusive “Collectivised Refugee Protection”: The Case of the EU-Egypt Migration Cooperation. European Journal of Migration and Law, 26(2), 241-266. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718166-12340179.

Faist, T. (2019). Contested externalisation: responses to global inequalities. Comparative Migration Studies, 7(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-019-0158-y.

Frelick, B., Kysel, I., & Podkul, J. (2016). The Impact of Externalization of Migration Controls on the Rights of Asylum Seekers and Other Migrants. Journal on Migration and Human Security, 4(4), 190-220. https://doi.org/10.1177/233150241600400402.

Gammeltoft-Hansen, T. (2011). The Externalisation of European Migration Control and the Reach of International Refugee Law. In Guild, E., Minderhoud, P., & Gammeltoft-Hansen T. (eds.), The First Decade of EU Migration and Asylum Law. Brill, pp. 273-298.

Garrett, T. (2020). COVID-19, wall building, and the effects on Migrant Protection Protocols by the Trump administration: The spectacle of the worsening human rights disaster on the Mexico-U.S. border. Administrative Theory, Praxis, 42(2), 240-248. https://doi.org/10.1080/10841806.2020.1750212.

Gibney, M. (2022). The Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations. Routledge.

Gleeson, M. (2016). Offshore: Behind the Wire on Manus and Nauru. NewSouth.

Gleeson, M., & Yacoub, N. (2021). Cruel, costly and ineffective: The failure of offshore processing in Australia. Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law Policy Brief, No. 11.

Gouyon, M. (2021). ‘Sheep in a pen’: How the externalization of EU borders impacts the lives of gay refugees in Morocco. In Camminga, B., Marnell, J. (eds.), Queer and Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Asylum and Diaspora. Zed Books, pp. 97-114. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755639021.

Guiraudon, V. (2002). Before the EU Border: Remote Control of the “Huddled Masses”. In Groenendijk, K., Guild, E., & Minderhoud, P. (eds.). In Search of Europe’s Borders. Brill Nijhoff, pp. 191-214.

Hallee, C. (2017). Refugees, readmission agreements, and ‘safe’ third countries: A recipe for refoulement?. Journal of Regional Security, 12(1), 27-50. https://doi.org/10.5937/jrs12-18205.

Heck, G., & Hess, S. (2017). Tracing the Effects of the EU-Turkey Deal. The Momentum of the Multi-layered Turkish Border Regime. movements. Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies, 3(2), 35-56. http://movements-journal.org/issues/05.turkey/04.heck,hess–tracing-the-effects-of-the-eu-turkey-deal.html.

Hyndman, J., & Mountz, A. (2008). Another Brick in the Wall? Neo-“Refoulement” and the Externalization of Asylum by Australia and Europe. Government and Opposition, 43(2), 249-269. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.2007.00251.x.

Kaunert C., & Léonard S. (2016). The extra-territorial processing of asylum claims. Forced Migration Review, 51, 48-50.

Laube, L. (2019). The relational dimension of externalizing border control: selective visa policies in migration and border diplomacy. Comparative Migration Studies, 7(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-019-0130-x.

Laube, L. (2021). Diplomatic Side-Effects of the EU’s Externalization of Border Control and the Emerging Role of “Transit States” in Migration Diplomacy. Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung, 46(3), 78-105.

Lavenex, S. (2006). Shifting up and out: The foreign policy of European immigration control. West European Politics, 29(2), 329-350. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402380500512684.

Lehner, R. (2019). The EU‐Turkey‐’deal’: Legal challenges and pitfalls. International Migration, 57(2), 176-185. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12462.

Lemaire, L. (2021). The European dispositif of border control in Malta. Migrants’ experiences of a securitized borderland. In Deleixhe, M., Dembińska, M., & Danero Iglesias. J. (eds.), Securitized Borderlands. Routledge, pp. 77-92.

Lemberg-Pedersen, M. (2017). Effective Protection or Effective Combat? EU Border Control and North Africa. In Gaibazzi, P., Dünnwald, S., & Bellagamba A. (eds.), EurAfrican Borders and Migration Management. Political Cultures, Contested Spaces, and Ordinary Lives. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 29-60.

Lemberg-Pedersen, M. (2019). Manufacturing displacement. Externalization and postcoloniality in European migration control. Global Affairs, 5(3), 247-271. https://doi.org/10.1080/23340460.2019.1683463.

Lemberg-Pedersen, M. (2023). ‘They must be escorted back nicely’. Disclaimed responsibility and renewed plans for externalising asylum in Denmark and the United Kingdom. In Halkier, H., & Mouritzen H. (eds.), Danish Foreign Policy Review 2023. DIIS, pp. 83-115.

Levy, C. (2010). Refugees, Europe, Camps/State of Exception: “Into The Zone”, the European Union and Extraterritorial Processing of Migrants, Refugees, and Asylum-seekers (Theories and Practice). Refugee Survey Quarterly, 29(1), 92-119. https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdq013.

Makumbe, R. P. (2022). The UK-Rwanda asylum deal indicates a failure to make human rights a reality. Africa at LSE. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2022/09/26/the-uk-rwanda-asylum-deal-indicates-a-failure-to-make-human-rights-a-reality/.

McDonnell, E. (2024). Challenging Externalisation Through the Lens of the Human Right to Leave. Netherlands International Law Review, 71, 119-154. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40802-024-00252-w.

Menjívar, C. (2014). Immigration Law Beyond Borders: Externalizing and Internalizing Border Controls in an Era of Securitization. Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 10(1), 353-369. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-110413-030842.

Moreno-Lax, V., & Lemberg-Pedersen, M. (2019). Border-induced displacement: The ethical and legal implications of distance-creation through externalization. Questions of International Law, 56, 5-33.

Moreno-Lax, V. (2024). Meta-Borders and the Rule of Law: From Externalisation to ‘Responsibilisation’ in Systems of Contactless Control. Netherlands International Law Review, 71, 21–57. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40802-024-00257-5.

Mourad, L., Norman, K. P. (2020). Transforming refugees into migrants: Institutional change and the politics of international protection. European Journal of International Relations, 26(3), 687-713. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066119883688.  

Mouzourakis, M., & Costello, C. (2023). Human Rights Violations to Deflect Refugees: The EU Council Agreement on Asylum Reform as an Intensification of Policies Tried and Failed. Verfassungsblog. https://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20230625-231111-0.

Negishi, Y. (2024). Constructive Refoulement as Disguised Voluntary Return: The Internalised Externalisation of Migrants. Netherlands International Law Review, 71, 155–176 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40802-024-00256-6.

Nethery, A., & Holman, R. (2016). Secrecy and human rights abuse in Australia’s offshore immigration detention centres. The International Journal of Human Rights, 20(7), 1018-1038. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2016.1196903.

Nicolosi, S.F. (2024). Externalisation of Migration Controls: A Taxonomy of Practices and Their Implications in International and European Law. Netherlands International Law Review, 71, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40802-024-00253-9.

Noll, G. (2003). Visions of the exceptional: legal and theoretical issues raised by transit processing centres and protection zones. European Journal of Migration and Law, 5(3), 303-341. https://doi.org/10.1163/157181603322599260.

O’Sullivan, M., Stevens, D. (eds.) (2017). States, the Law and Access to Refugee Protection. Fortresses and Fairness. Hart Publishing.

Peterie, M. (2018). Deprivation, Frustration, and Trauma: Immigration Detention Centres as Prisons. Refugee Survey Quarterly, 37 (3), 279-306. https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdy008.

Piccoli, L. (2023). Offshoring Asylum the Italian Way. No Model for Others to Follow. Verfassungsblog. https://dx.doi.org/10.59704/06a96c55e6fe8b79.

Pijnenburg, A. (2024). Externalisation of Migration Control: Impunity or Accountability for Human Rights Violations?. Netherlands International Law Review, 71, 59–88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40802-024-00250-y.

Refugee Law Initiative (2022). Refugee Law Initiative Declaration on Externalisation and Asylum. International Journal of Refugee Law, 34(1), 114-119. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eeac022.

Strange, M., & Oliveira Martins, B. (2019). Claiming parity between unequal partners: How African counterparts are framed in the externalisation of EU migration governance. Global Affairs, 5, 234-246. https://doi.org/10.1080/23340460.2019.1691932.

Strik, T., Robbesom, R. (2024). Compliance or Complicity? An Analysis of the EU-Tunisia Deal in the Context of the Externalisation of Migration Control. Netherlands International Law Review, 71, 199–225. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40802-024-00251-x.

Talbot, A., Vogl, A., & Dehm, S. (2024). The Gender- and Sexuality-Based Harms of Refugee Externalization: A Role for Human Rights Due Diligence. International Journal of Refugee Law, online first: https://doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eeae010.

Tammone, F. (2024). Challenging Externalization by Means of Article 4 ECHR: Towards New Avenues of Litigation for Victims of Human Trafficking?. Netherlands International Law Review, 71, 89–117. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40802-024-00254-8.

Triandafyllidou, A. (2014). Multi-levelling and externalizing migration and asylum: lessons from the southern European islands. Island Studies Journal, 9(1), 7-22.

Üstübici, A. (2018). The Governance of International Migration: Irregular Migrants’ Access to Right to Stay in Turkey and Morocco. Amsterdam University Press.

Üstübici, A. (2019). The impact of externalized migration governance on Turkey: technocratic migration governance and the production of differentiated legal status. Comparative Migration Studies, 7(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-019-0159-x.

Vrânceanu, A., et al. (2023). The European refugee crisis and public support for the externalisation of migration management. European Journal of Political Research, 62(4), 1146-1167. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12565.

Welfens, N., & Bekyol, Y. (2021). The Politics of Vulnerability in Refugee Admissions under the EU-Turkey Statement. Frontiers in Political Science, 3(16). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2021.622921.

Winters, N., & Mora Izaguirre, C. (2019). Es cosa suya: entanglements of border externalization and African transit migration in northern Costa Rica. Comparative Migration Studies, 7(1), 27. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-019-0131-9.

Zaiotti, R. (ed.), (2016). Externalizing Migration Management: Europe, North America and the Spread of ‘Remote Control’ Practices. Routledge.