Journalartikel

Autorenliste: Bast, Juergen; de Oliveira, Pauline Endres; Wessels, Janna

Jahr der Veröffentlichung: 2024

Seiten: 461-474

Zeitschrift: International Journal of Refugee Law

Bandnummer: 35

Heftnummer: 4

ISSN: 0953-8186

eISSN: 1464-3715

Open Access Status: Hybrid

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eead007

Verlag: Oxford University Press

Abstract: 
This article argues that the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) is not only a breakthrough for a rights-based approach in international migration governance but also an asset to the international protection system. By way of example, three key issues of the European Union's (EU) Common European Asylum System are discussed: access to protection, reception conditions, and detention. These examples illustrate that faithfully implementing the Migration Compact would require the EU and its Member States to make significant changes in their asylum policy. The parallel emergence of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) may suggest otherwise - namely, that the GCM is not relevant for refugees and other protection-seeking migrants. However, the legal construction that best serves the object and purpose of both documents is the assumption that the two Compacts have an overlapping scope of application. The GCM addresses specific protection needs of protection-seeking migrants who are not covered by the 1951 Refugee Convention, and it serves as an umbrella, strengthening the core human rights of migrants regardless of their status, including protection-seeking migrants. Hence, the GCM improves the international protection system as a whole and should be acknowledged as such.

Harvard-Zitierstil: Bast, J., de Oliveira, P. and Wessels, J. (2024) Enhancing the Rights of Protection-Seeking Migrants through the Global Compact for Migration: The Case of EU Asylum Policy, International Journal of Refugee Law, 35(4), pp. 461-474. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eead007

APA-Zitierstil: Bast, J., de Oliveira, P., & Wessels, J. (2024). Enhancing the Rights of Protection-Seeking Migrants through the Global Compact for Migration: The Case of EU Asylum Policy. International Journal of Refugee Law. 35(4), 461-474. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eead007