Focus on "Boat People" in Europe

Hirsi v. Italy Case:

22 June, 09.15 CEST, ECtHR Grand Chamber Hearing in Hirsi and Others v. Italy (Migrants at Sea Blog, June 2011) [text]

Case Watch: Italian “Push-Backs” of Migrant Boats Under Scrutiny (Open Society Blog, June 2011) [text]

Hirsi v Italy: Summary of Oral Submission made by Govt. of Italy to Grand Chamber ECtHR (Migrants at Sea Blog, June 2011) [text]

Italy’s Migrant Rights Record Under Scrutiny (Open Society Blog, June 2011) [text]

UNHCR's Oral Intervention at the European Court of Human Rights - Hearing of the Case Hirsi and Others v. Italy (UNHCR, June 2011) [text]

Inquiries and Resolutions:

HRC Adopts Resolution on Migrants and Asylum Seekers Fleeing North Africa; Calls for Inquiry Into Allegations of Failures to Rescue Boats in Distress (Migrants at Sea Blog, June 2011) [text]

PACE Adopts Resolution and Recommendation Regarding the Interception and Rescue at Sea of Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Irregular Migrants (Migrants at Sea Blog, June 2011) [text]

PACE Launches Inquiry into Responsibility for Lives Lost in the Mediterranean (PACE, June 2011) [text]
- See also link to web file on "Europe's boat people."

Publications:

"A Double Bind: Malta and the Rescue of Unwanted Migrants at Sea - A Legal Anthropological Perspective on the Humanitarian Law of the Sea," International Journal of Refugee Law, Advance Access, 22 June 2011 [abstract]

Fishers of Men? The Interception of Migrants in the Mediterranean Sea and Their Forced Return to Libya (INEX, Oct. 2010; posted June 2011) [text via SSRN]

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