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Controlling Immigration
 Through Criminal Law
European and Comparative Perspectives
        on “Crimmigration”

               Edited by
           Gian Luigi Gatta,
          Valsamis Mitsilegas
                 and
            Stefano Zirulia
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       Names: Gatta, Gian Luigi, editor.   |    Mitsilegas, Valsamis, 1971- editor.   |       Zirulia, Stefano, editor.
Title: Controlling immigration through criminal law : European and comparative perspectives on “crimmigration” /
                        edited by Gian Luigi Gatta, Valsamis Mitsilegas and Stefano Zirulia.
   Description: Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. |
  Series: Hart studies in European criminal law; volume 12 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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                   ISBN 9781509933921 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509942756 (paperback) |
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            Subjects: LCSH: Emigration and immigration law—European Union countries—Criminal
      provisions. | Emigration and immigration law—Criminal provisions. | Human smuggling—Law
                         and legislation—European Union countries | Illegal aliens.
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CONTENTS

List of Contributors ........................................................................................................vii

Introduction ......................................................................................................................1
Gian Luigi Gatta, Valsamis Mitsilegas and Stefano Zirulia

                                         PART I
                           THE CRIMINALISATION OF MIGRATION:
                                  FRAMING THE DEBATE
1. Assessing Migration Management and the Role of Criminal Law .......................9
   Elspeth Guild
2. The Criminalisation of Migration in the Law of the European Union:
   Challenging the Preventive Paradigm .................................................................25
   Valsamis Mitsilegas
3. Global Trends in ‘Crimmigration’ Policies: From the EU to the USA ................47
   Gian Luigi Gatta
4. The Connections between Migration, Crime and Punishment: Historical
   and Sociological Questions ..................................................................................81
   Dario Melossi
5. Current Trends, Numbers and Routes in EU Migrations: Is Existing
   Legislation Creating More Irregularity? ............................................................101
   Maria Giovanna Manieri

                               PART II
                 THE CRIMINALISATION OF MIGRATION:
          NATIONAL, EUROPEAN AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
6. Crimmigration in Spain .....................................................................................119
   José A Brandariz
7. Ethnicity Based Immigration Checks: Crimmigration and the How
   of Immigration and Border Control ..................................................................141
   Maartje van der Woude
vi    Contents

8. Crimmigration in Greece: A Story of Exceptional Derogations
   from the Rule of Law within a Permanent Situation of Emergency ................165
   Nikolaos Chatzinikolaou
9. Immigration Detention between Law and Practice in Italy: Managing
   the Border Through Arbitrary Detention ..........................................................193
   Francesca Cancellaro
10. Detention as a Tool of Immigration and Asylum Enforcement
    in the EU ............................................................................................................211
    Justine N Stefanelli

                                   PART III
                 WHO IS TO BLAME? SMUGGLING, HUMANITARIAN
                  ASSISTANCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
                         IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AREA
11. Is that a Smuggler?: The Blurring Line between Facilitating Illegal
    Immigration and Providing Humanitarian Assistance at the
    European Borders...............................................................................................235
    Stefano Zirulia
12. Reversing the Perspective: Criminal Responsibility of Italian Authorities
    for Human Rights Violations in Libya? .............................................................267
    Luca Masera

Index ..........................................................................................................................281
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

José A Brandariz, Associate Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at the
University of A Coruña, Spain
Francesca Cancellaro, PhD (Università di Bologna), Post-doc Researcher,
Università della Tuscia; Lawyer specialising in Criminal law and Human
Rights law
Nikolaos Chatzinikolaou, PhD (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Lawyer
specialising in Criminal Law, Thessaloniki
Gian Luigi Gatta, Professor of Criminal Law, Department of Law ‘Cesare Beccaria’,
Università degli Studi di Milano
Elspeth Guild, Jean Monnet Professor ad personam at Queen Mary University of
London and Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Maria Giovanna Manieri, Political Advisor on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home
Affairs for the Greens/EFA in the European Parliament
Luca Masera, Associate Professor of Criminal Law at the Università di Brescia,
vice-president of the ASGI (Associazione per gli Studi Giuridici sull’Immigrazione)
Dario Melossi, Professor of Criminology, Università di Bologna
Valsamis Mitsilegas, Professor of European Criminal Law and Global Security
and Deputy Dean for Global Engagement (Europe) at Queen Mary University of
London
Justine N Stefanelli, Director of Publications and Research, American Society of
International Law, Washington, DC
Maartje Van Der Woude, Professor of Law & Society, Van Vollenhoven Institute
for Law, Governance & Society, Leiden University
Stefano Zirulia, Assistant Professor of Criminal Law, Department of Law
‘Cesare Beccaria’, Università degli Studi di Milano
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