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Human Rights and the Dark Side of Globalisation: Transnational law enforcement and migration control
T Gammeltoft-Hansen
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This edited volume examines the continued viability of international human rights law in the context of growing transnational law enforcement. With states increasingly making use of global governance modes, core exercises of public authority such as migration control, surveillance, detention and policing, are increasingly conducted extraterritorially, outsourced to foreign governments or delegated to non-state actors. New forms of cooperation raise difficult questions about divided, shared and joint responsibility under international human rights law. At the same time, some governments engage in transnational law enforcement exactly to avoid such responsibilities, creatively seeking to navigate the complex, ... Read more
This edited volume examines the continued viability of international human rights law in the context of growing transnational law enforcement. With states increasingly making use of global governance modes, core exercises of public authority such as migration control, surveillance, detention and policing, are increasingly conducted extraterritorially, outsourced to foreign governments or delegated to non-state actors. New forms of cooperation raise difficult questions about divided, shared and joint responsibility under international human rights law. At the same time, some governments engage in transnational law enforcement exactly to avoid such responsibilities, creatively seeking to navigate the complex, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Routledge Studies in Human Rights
Condition
New
Number of Pages
366
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138222243
SKU
V9781138222243
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99-1
About T Gammeltoft-Hansen
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen is Research Director at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Sweden, and Honorary Professor of Law at Aarhus University, Denmark. Jens Vedsted-Hansen is Professor at the School of Law, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Reviews for Human Rights and the Dark Side of Globalisation: Transnational law enforcement and migration control
'The topic of this book is as important and timely as its contributions are expert and original. As the phenomenon of mass migration has come to increased prominence on the agenda of global public policy, so too the efforts made by states to control their borders, restrict immigration and engage in cross-border law-enforcement and surveillance have raised important questions about ... Read more