Abstract
In the summer of 2015 Hungary constructed a 175 km long barbed-wire fence at its southern border with Serbia. New criminal offences and asylum procedures were introduced that limited access to refugee status determination and ignored agreed EU asylum policy, deterring and de facto preventing asylum seekers from entering Hungarian territory. This paper provides an analysis of these new measures, which criminalized asylum seekers, and the subsequent Hungarian policy in relation to the case law of the European Court of Human Rights – arguing that the Hungarian authorities excessively abused their discretion in implementing these new policies of immigration and border control.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 432-451 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | European Journal of Criminology |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Early online date | 11 May 2018 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Jul 2019 |
Keywords
- asylum, crimmigration, human rights, Hungary, irregular/illegal migration, non-refoulement
Documents and Links
- Gyollai, D. & Amatrudo, A. (2019) Controlling irregular migration international human rights standards and the Hungarian legal framework
This is the accepted author manuscript of an article published by SAGE in European Journal of Criminology on 01/07/2019, available online: https://doi.org/10.1177/1477370818772776. Copyright © The Authors.