The EU Pact on Migration and Asylum: Why Criminologists Should Care? (I)

Session Submission Type: Pre-arranged Panel

Abstract

When the EU institutions set up the basic architecture of border control policies in Europe back in the late 1990s they could not have envisioned the heated political and public debates on migration enforcement currently witnessed in the EU – and elsewhere. In this respect, supranational, national and subnational actors converge to form a multi-scalar model of asylum and migration governance, contributing to shape migration policies by agonistically pursuing their own interests and goals. These agonistic relations take place in a migration enforcement field that has significantly changed over the last decade, both at the continental and national level. The new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum, which was passed in May 2024, will have a major impact on this already politically charged and unstable field. This two-panel session aims to scrutinise recent changes in this field and the impact of the new EU Pact, gathering presentations from various EU jurisdictions that have been particularly active in shielding external EU borders.

Subtopic

• Topic 5: Social Control and Criminal Justice / Crime Control and the Immigration System (Immigration, Crime and Citizenship WG)

Chair

• Jose A. Brandariz, University of A Coruna

Individual Presentations

• Regulating migration in view of the upcoming implementation of the «new EU Pact»: Insights from Greece - GEORGE NIKOLOPOULOS, PANTEION UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES

• A criminological reading of the new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum - Giuseppe Campesi, University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’

• “No half measures”: Poland's view on the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum and its (non-)implementation - Monika Szulecka, Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences; Witold Klaus, Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences

• Criminalizing Solidarity, Regulating the Enemy: Analyzing the Criminalization of Migrant Solidarity through ‘Enemy Under-Criminalization’ in Greece - Filippos Kourakis, Panteion Univeristy