Aflevering 2

On 14 December 2021, the European Commission issued a Proposal for a Regulation amending Regulation 2016/399 regarding a Union Code on the rules governing the movement of persons across borders (commonly known as the Schengen Borders Code).1 This is not the first time the Commission has proposed changes to the Code since the arrival of more than expected numbers of refugees in 2015-2016. Most recently, the Back to Schengen Communication of 2017 proposed changes to the Code to improve its operation.2 However, these efforts have perhaps not succeeded as fully as the Commission would have hoped.

Frontex’s involvement in illegal pushback action and other fundamental rights violations amidst increasing EU securitisation, has called for an evaluation into how the agency could uphold its fundamental rights obligations in the area of migration. This assessment requires looking into the alleged fundamental rights guarantees provided by Frontex and assessing their effectiveness de facto. Overall, this article hopes to contribute towards furthering fundamental rights protection in an increasingly militarised field.

The number of Muslims residing in the EU has increased in the past decades as has the number of Muslims acquiring the nationality of EU states. The increase in the number of Muslim residents and Muslim EU citizens whose family life is governed by sharia law raises legal questions about the interaction between national and EU migration law on one hand, and Sharia on the other hand. While numerous private international law instruments oblige the member states to recognize the legal effects produced by these foreign sharia concepts, the poor coordination of private international law and EU immigration law makes it unclear how those families whose bonds are formed by Islamic law fit within the EU immigration framework and what their rights are. This article provides an in-depth legal analysis of the two main EU directives governing the migration rights of the families of Union citizens and TCN sponsors to clarify if and how these instruments accommodate kafala and talaq, two Islamic institutions that are still today commonly used to form family bonds.

In deze bijdrage zal ik ingaan op de gevolgen van de arresten EP en (vooral) GS en VG, waarin het Hof van Justitie van de Europese Unie (HvJ EU, verder: Hof) bij uitspraken van 12 december 2019 het begrip ’openbare orde’ uitlegde in de Schengengrenscode (SGC) en de Gezinsherenigingsrichtlijn (Gri). Vanzelfsprekend ga ik daarna in op de vervolguitspraken van de Afdeling bestuursrechtspraak van de Raad van State (verder: Afdeling) van 2 september 2020, waarin de Afdeling de uitleg van het Hof toepaste op de voorliggende zaken. Maar ook in latere jurisprudentie zijn de gevolgen van deze arresten duidelijk merkbaar, en die komt natuurlijk ook aan de orde.

Een terugblik op de ACVZ-verkenning ‘Van asielzoeker naar zorgverlener’ en de reacties die de aanbevelingen uitlokten bij het publiek, media, Kamer en bewindspersonen.

Vanuit De vreemdeling en De mythe van Sisyphus. van Albert Camus wordt in deze bijdrage het begrip ‘vreemdeling’ op literaire en filosofische wijze gethematiseerd. De vraag wat deze exercitie concreet kan betekenen voor de verhouding ten aanzien van migranten wordt met verwijzing naar de recent verschenen literaire non-fictie In therapie met Nederland van Kiza Magendane beantwoord.