EUROPEAN AND
INTERNATIONAL
MIGRATION LAW
AND POLICY
(EIMLP)
Prof. Ellen Desmet
Academic Year: 2020-2021
,Final Competences:
1. Have an advanced insight in the current state of European and international asylum
and migration law and policy.
2. Have an advanced insight in the functioning of key actors in European
and international asylum and migration law and policy.
3. Reflect in a grounded, nuanced and critical manner on current challenges and
evolutions.
4. Have advanced analytical, writing, presentation and debating skills.
5. Have an increased awareness of the relevance of insights from other disciplines
For for policy and law making on asylum and migration.
6. Adopt a diversity sensitive attitude in scientific research and legal work.
Overview
1. Migration and migration law
2. Migration in perspective
2.1. The scale of global migration
2.2. Migration and development
3. Actors, policies and laws
3.1. Migration policies: general
3.2. International level (United Nations)
3.3. Council of Europe
3.4. European Union
,CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION, MIGRATION IN
PERSPECTIVE
1. Migration and migration law
Migration? /Migrant?
→ No universally accepted definition of ‘migration’ or ‘migrant’
1.1 Migrants?
→ Sans papier, climate refugee, refugee, IDP, Transit migrant, ‘illegal’, expat, Economic
migrant, Foreigner, Asylum seeker, Fortune seeker, With a migration background, Alien…
, 1.2 Migration Law?