Alan Desmond
Biographic Data
| ID | 3865439 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Desmond |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Desmond |
| SIGNATURE | DESMOND A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8194-6073 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From migration crisis to migrants’ rights crisis
The long-simmering process of sidelining and side-stepping migrants’ rights protection while attempting to regulate cross-border movement of people was heated up by the 2015 migration crisis and has recently been brought to the boil with the crisis-fuelled adoption of the UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) in 2018. The GCM represents an endorsement at the international level of soft-law, goal-setting frameworks for in…
From Complementarity to Convergence
The UN Global Compact for Migration (GCM) was adopted amidst much fanfare in 2018 and heralded as the first-ever UN global agreement on a common approach to international migration in all its dimensions. This claim is questionable, given the adoption in 1990 of the UN International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (ICRMW), a core international human rights instrument and the most comp…
Migrants’ rights finally front and centre of the international agenda? Exploring the perils and possibilities of the SDGs and the GCM
This Special Issue features seven papers that explore the possible consequences for the protection of migrants' rights of two important, intimately interrelated international soft-law initiatives. The first is the adoption in 2015 of the UN Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 (Agenda 2030), 1 which, for the first time, saw inclusion in the global development agenda of explicit commitments on migration (Kraly and Hovy, 2020, p. 2). Agenda 2030 aim…
A new dawn for the human rights of international migrants? Protection of migrants’ rights in light of the UN's SDGs and Global Compact for Migration
This paper undertakes a sceptical analysis of the significance for the protection of migrants’ rights represented by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 and the UN Global Compact for Migration (GCM). With particular reference to the UN Migrant Workers Convention, I argue that adoption of the GCM underscores a decisive shift from the realm of binding international law to soft law for the purposes of dealing with migrants’ rights. While a…
The Private Life of Family Matters
This article critically examines the evolving practice of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) towards the definition and use of the concepts of family life and private life in cases involving migrants who seek to resist deportation by invoking Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The examination reveals an approach on the part of the Court that has the effect of shrinking the protection potential of Article 8 for migrant a…
The Development of a Common EU Migration Policy and the Rights of Irregular Migrants
The inadequacy of EU efforts to address the particular vulnerability to rights abuses faced by irregular migrants has become an article of faith for academics, activists and practitioners involved in the field of EU migration policy. This inadequacy is thrown into sharp relief by the efforts expended by the EU to prevent and reduce irregular migration, and control migration more generally. Despite the emphasis placed on migration control in the c…
Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, When Humans Become Migrants
When Humans Become Migrants is an important critical examination of the approach taken by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) towards migrant applicants which adds significantly to our understanding of this strand of the Court’s jurisprudence. One of the main contributions of the book is its interrogation and analysis of what the author characterizes as ‘the Strasbourg reversal’ (pp 4–5, 184–7). This refers to the way in which the Court, w…
A new dawn for the human rights of international migrants? Protection of migrants’ rights in light of the UN's SDGs and Global Compact for Migration
This paper undertakes a sceptical analysis of the significance for the protection of migrants’ rights represented by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 and the UN Global Compact for Migration (GCM). With particular reference to the UN Migrant Workers Convention, I argue that adoption of the GCM underscores a decisive shift from the realm of binding international law to soft law for the purposes of dealing with migrants’ rights. While a…
The Private Life of Family Matters
This article critically examines the evolving practice of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) towards the definition and use of the concepts of family life and private life in cases involving migrants who seek to resist deportation by invoking Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The examination reveals an approach on the part of the Court that has the effect of shrinking the protection potential of Article 8 for migrant a…
From migration crisis to migrants’ rights crisis
The long-simmering process of sidelining and side-stepping migrants’ rights protection while attempting to regulate cross-border movement of people was heated up by the 2015 migration crisis and has recently been brought to the boil with the crisis-fuelled adoption of the UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) in 2018. The GCM represents an endorsement at the international level of soft-law, goal-setting frameworks for in…
Migrants’ rights finally front and centre of the international agenda? Exploring the perils and possibilities of the SDGs and the GCM
This Special Issue features seven papers that explore the possible consequences for the protection of migrants' rights of two important, intimately interrelated international soft-law initiatives. The first is the adoption in 2015 of the UN Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 (Agenda 2030), 1 which, for the first time, saw inclusion in the global development agenda of explicit commitments on migration (Kraly and Hovy, 2020, p. 2). Agenda 2030 aim…
The Development of a Common EU Migration Policy and the Rights of Irregular Migrants
The inadequacy of EU efforts to address the particular vulnerability to rights abuses faced by irregular migrants has become an article of faith for academics, activists and practitioners involved in the field of EU migration policy. This inadequacy is thrown into sharp relief by the efforts expended by the EU to prevent and reduce irregular migration, and control migration more generally. Despite the emphasis placed on migration control in the c…
Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, When Humans Become Migrants
When Humans Become Migrants is an important critical examination of the approach taken by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) towards migrant applicants which adds significantly to our understanding of this strand of the Court’s jurisprudence. One of the main contributions of the book is its interrogation and analysis of what the author characterizes as ‘the Strasbourg reversal’ (pp 4–5, 184–7). This refers to the way in which the Court, w…
The Private Life of Family Matters
This article critically examines the evolving practice of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) towards the definition and use of the concepts of family life and private life in cases involving migrants who seek to resist deportation by invoking Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The examination reveals an approach on the part of the Court that has the effect of shrinking the protection potential of Article 8 for migrant a…
Migrants’ rights finally front and centre of the international agenda? Exploring the perils and possibilities of the SDGs and the GCM
This Special Issue features seven papers that explore the possible consequences for the protection of migrants' rights of two important, intimately interrelated international soft-law initiatives. The first is the adoption in 2015 of the UN Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 (Agenda 2030), 1 which, for the first time, saw inclusion in the global development agenda of explicit commitments on migration (Kraly and Hovy, 2020, p. 2). Agenda 2030 aim…
A new dawn for the human rights of international migrants? Protection of migrants’ rights in light of the UN's SDGs and Global Compact for Migration
This paper undertakes a sceptical analysis of the significance for the protection of migrants’ rights represented by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 and the UN Global Compact for Migration (GCM). With particular reference to the UN Migrant Workers Convention, I argue that adoption of the GCM underscores a decisive shift from the realm of binding international law to soft law for the purposes of dealing with migrants’ rights. While a…
From Complementarity to Convergence
The UN Global Compact for Migration (GCM) was adopted amidst much fanfare in 2018 and heralded as the first-ever UN global agreement on a common approach to international migration in all its dimensions. This claim is questionable, given the adoption in 1990 of the UN International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (ICRMW), a core international human rights instrument and the most comp…
From migration crisis to migrants’ rights crisis
The long-simmering process of sidelining and side-stepping migrants’ rights protection while attempting to regulate cross-border movement of people was heated up by the 2015 migration crisis and has recently been brought to the boil with the crisis-fuelled adoption of the UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) in 2018. The GCM represents an endorsement at the international level of soft-law, goal-setting frameworks for in…
Political science (7 works) · Human rights (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Convention (4 works) · European Criminal Justice and Data Protection (4 works) · European and International Law Studies (3 works) · Human Rights and Development (3 works) · International Labor and Employment Law (3 works) · Jurisprudence (3 works)