The Concept of Marriages of Convenience in EU Free Movement Law

The Concept of Marriages of Convenience in EU Free Movement Law
Author: Aleksandra Ancite-Jepifánova
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2024-10-21
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004499261

Over the past two decades, EU Member States have regularly complained about the perceived abuse of EU law via marriages of convenience, allegedly contracted between mobile EU citizens and third-country nationals. During the pre-Brexit years, the UK had been voicing particularly strong concerns about the issue, which ultimately resulted in regulatory changes both at the EU and national level. In this book, Aleksandra Ancite-Jepifánova pursues two interrelated aims. First, she evaluates the compatibility of EU-level measures addressing marriages of convenience with EU free movement law by focusing on the Citizenship Directive. Second, she examines the regulation of the issue in UK law in so far as it concerns the residence rights of EU citizens and their family members, both pre-and post-Brexit.

Bordering

Bordering
Author: Nira Yuval-Davis
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2019-06-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1509504982

Controlling national borders has once again become a key concern of contemporary states and a highly contentious issue in social and political life. But controlling borders is about much more than patrolling territorial boundaries at the edges of states: it now comprises a multitude of practices that take place at different levels, some at the edges of states and some in the local contexts of everyday life – in workplaces, in hospitals, in schools – which, taken together, construct, reproduce and contest borders and the rights and obligations associated with belonging to a nation-state. This book is a systematic exploration of the practices and processes that now define state bordering and the role it plays in national and global governance. Based on original research, it goes well beyond traditional approaches to the study of migration and racism, showing how these processes affect all members of society, not just the marginalized others. The uncertainties arising from these processes mean that more and more people find themselves living in grey zones, excluded from any form of protection and often denied basic human rights.

The Substantive Law of the EU

The Substantive Law of the EU
Author: Catherine Barnard
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 729
Release: 2016
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0198749953

Widely acclaimed and respected, this is the leading text on the four freedoms of the European Union. Unparalleled coverage of the subject area is paired with expert author insight and presented in a concise and user-friendly format, accompanied by engaging case studies and diagrams.

Planning the Future of Cross Border Families

Planning the Future of Cross Border Families
Author: Ilaria Viarengo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 976
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1509919880

This book is built upon the outcomes of the EUFam's Project, financially supported by the EU Civil Justice Programme and led by the University of Milan. Also involved are the Universities of Heidelberg, Osijek, Valencia and Verona, the MPI in Luxembourg, the Italian and Spanish Family Lawyers Associations and training academies for judges in Italy and Croatia. The book seeks to offer an exhaustive overview of the regulatory framework of private international law in family and succession matters. The book addresses current features of the Brussels IIa, Rome III, Maintenance and Succession Regulations, the 2007 Hague Protocol, the 2007 Hague Recovery Convention and new Regulations on Property Regimes. The contributions are authored by more than 30 experts in cross-border family and succession matters. They introduce social and cultural issues of cross-border families, set up the scope of all EU family and succession regulations, examine rules on jurisdiction, applicable law and recognition and enforcement regimes and focus on the current problems of EU family and succession law (lis pendens in third States, forum necessitatis, Brexit and interactions with other legal instruments). The book also contains national reports from 6 Member States and annexes of interest for both legal scholars and practitioners (policy guidelines, model clauses and protocols).

The Legal Framework and Social Consequences of Free Movement of Persons Within the European Union

The Legal Framework and Social Consequences of Free Movement of Persons Within the European Union
Author: Elspeth Guild
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1999
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789041110732

This book marks thirty years of progress in realizing the free movement of persons in the European Union. Its origins are to be found in a conference held at King's College, London, organised by the Immigration Law Practitioners' Association and the Centre of European Law at King's College, London, with the sponsorship of the European Commission. The book is divided into two sections: the first deals with the implementation of rights of nationals in the European Union to move, reside and exercise economic activities in other Member States. The second part looks at the development of European law regulating the movement, residence and economic activities of third country nationals within the territory of the Union. Each of the two parts, in its own way, analyzes the relation of the black letter law to the social consequences attendant on migration within the European Union. This is an invaluable analysis for practitioners and academics concerned with the development of a legal regime on migration in the European Union.

Mobility and Family in Transnational Space

Mobility and Family in Transnational Space
Author: Tatiana Ferreira
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2016-02-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1443889652

This book brings together a range of papers on transnational lives, mobility and gender studies from various disciplinary perspectives and geographical contexts, including European, African and American countries. The thirteen contributions to the volume provide insights into transnational migration and family issues, offering a renewed theoretical approach to the differing conditions in migration access in origin societies and the scope of social inclusion in the receiving countries. The diversity of the authors’ backgrounds and the range of geographical contexts allow a wider understanding of the family in the transnational space, one that considers mobility as a developmental opportunity for individuals, whose consequences in the contemporary world have not yet been sufficiently studied.

Family Reunification in Europe

Family Reunification in Europe
Author: Ellen Desmet
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2024-09-10
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1040116752

This book provides a multi-disciplinary investigation of family reunification laws, policies and practices across the European Union. Family reunification – the possibility for family members to (re)unite in a country where one of them is residing – has been high on the political agenda. Building on original empirical research with families and practitioners as well as in-depth doctrinal analyses, the book explores the fragmentation of legal rules, the gaps between formal regulations and practices, and their consequences for families across borders. Different contributions in the volume point to the growing inequalities among and within applicant families, based on residence status, gender, location, citizenship and socio-economic resources, due to the family reunification regimes currently in place.The book enhances interdisciplinary dialogue by providing clear insights into the specific contribution of migration law, private international law and social scientific analyses to the study of family reunification. The book is aimed at researchers working on the topic of family reunification, as well as students of law and socio-legal studies and practitioners in the field of migration.

Democratic Citizenship and the Free Movement of People

Democratic Citizenship and the Free Movement of People
Author: Willem Maas
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2013-09-05
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004243283

Democratic states guarantee free movement within their territory to all citizens, as a core right of citizenship. Similarly, the European Union guarantees EU citizens and members of their families the right to live and the right to work anywhere within EU territory. Such rights reflect the project of equality and undifferentiated individual rights for all who have the status of citizen, but they are not uncontested. Despite citizenship's promise of equality, barriers, incentives, and disincentives to free movement make some citizens more equal than others. This book challenges the normal way of thinking about freedom of movement by identifying the tensions between the formal ideals that governments, laws, and constitutions expound and actual practices, which fall short. "Individual states and the European Union have either created or permitted the creation of direct and indirect barriers to mobility that undermine the promise of freedom of movement. The volume identifies these barriers, explains why they have arisen, discusses why they are difficult to remove, and explores their consequences." -- Joseph Carens, University of Toronto.

Textbook on Immigration and Asylum Law

Textbook on Immigration and Asylum Law
Author: Gina Clayton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 669
Release: 2016
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0198747551

This volume examines the law and system of control which govern immigration and asylum in the UK. It begins with the historical and legal context, explains who is subject to immigration control, and describes the legal and administrative structure of the system.

EU Law

EU Law
Author: Paul Craig
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 1375
Release: 2015
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0198714920

This work provides a clear and insightful analysis of European law accompanied by carefully chosen extracts from a range of materials.