The European Union’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum: Governing Implementation in the Shadow of Externalisation
- Event type
- Lecture
- Address
- IALS Council Chamber, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR
- Speakers
- Lillian Tsourdi (Maastricht University)
- Event dates
- Contact
- sas.events@sas.ac.uk Email only
This lecture advances a critical legal analysis of the ‘New Pact on Migration and Asylum’, the EU’s latest policy framework on asylum, migration, and integrated border management policies, and of the legislative instruments adopted in 2024 to implement it. The Pact’s stated aim is to establish ‘seamless migration processes and stronger governance’. The new instruments represent a significant evolution on both counts and hold the potential to enhance effectiveness, inter-state mutual trust, and policy implementation. Nevertheless, aspects of the instruments risk jeopardising migrants’ fundamental rights and could be used to deflect and externalise protection obligations. In addition, the Pact’s vision of mandatory yet flexible solidarity might prove inadequate to ensure fair sharing of responsibility. The lecture examines the main legal issues these new instruments raise employing a combination of international refugee law and human rights law, EU constitutional and migration law, and the interdisciplinary perspective of administrative governance as analytical lenses.
Speaker: Lillian Tsourdi, Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair in EU Migration Law and Governance, Law Faculty, Maastricht University
