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Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction - justicing Europe's frontiers: effective access to remedies and justice in bordering and expulsion policies -- Part I Complaint mechanisms in the context of border controls and expulsions at land and air borders -- 1 Keeping up appearances: dubious legality and migration control at the peripheral borders of Europe. The cases of Ceuta and Melilla -- 2 Deportations without the right to complaint: cases from Spain -- 3 Hungary at the border of populism and asylum -- 4 Access to effective remedies for foreigners affected by decisions, actions, and inactions of the Polish Border Guard -- 5 Human rights violations in expulsion cases and during enforced returns: the Austrian law and reality -- Part II Complaint mechanisms in the context of sea borders and maritime surveillance -- 6 Police accountability and human rights at the Italian borders -- 7 Search and rescue, disembarkation, and relocation arrangements in the Mediterranean: justicing maritime border surveillance operations -- 8 Border management at the external Schengen Borders: border controls, return operations, and obstacles to effective remedies in Greece -- 9 A practical evaluation of border activities in Romania: control, surveillance, and expulsions -- Part III Justicing international, regional, and EU standards -- 10 Complaint mechanism during return flights: the European border and Coast Guard Agency -- 11 Mechanisms to prevent pushbacks -- 12 Human rights complaints at international borders or during expulsion procedures: international, European, and EU standards -- Index.

"This edited volume examines the extent to which the various authorities and actors currently performing border management and expulsion-related tasks are subject to accountability mechanisms capable of delivering effective remedies and justice for abuses suffered by migrants and asylum seekers. Member States of the European Union and State Parties to the Council of Europe are under the obligation to establish complaint mechanisms allowing immigrants and/or asylum seekers to seek effective remedies in cases where their rights are violated. This book sheds light on the complaint bodies and procedures existing and available in Austria, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Poland, and Romania. It assesses their role in overseeing, investigating and redressing cases of human rights violations deriving from violent border and immigration management practices, and expedited expulsion procedures. This book therefore provides an assessment of the practical, legal, and procedural challenges that affect the possibility to lodge complaints and access remedies for human rights violations suffered at the hand of the law enforcement authorities and other security actors operating at land, air, and sea borders, or participating in expulsions procedures - in particular, joint return flights. The volume will be of key interest to students, scholars and practitioners working on human rights, migration and borders, international law, European law and security studies, EU politics and more broadly international relations"--

This Study, commissioned by the European Parliament's Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE-Committee), takes stock of the main developments that have occurred in the Schengen Governance Framework since 2016. It analyses the legitimacy of a number of States' decisions to maintain internal border controls. Also, most recent policy proposals in the field of internal police checks are assessed in light of relevant EU legal standards. The paper also questions the legality of the border walls and fences, which have been recently erected at the EU external borders and within the Schengen area.