Implementing Amsterdam: Immigration and Asylum Rights in EC Law

by Elspeth Guild (Editor), Carol Harlow (Editor)

Overview

Until the Amsterdam Treaty,law and policymaking in the field of immigration remained a national function, though in practice there was much co-operation (the so-called Third Pillar). Now these powers have been transferred to the European Community as First Pillar powers. Only Denmark, Ireland and the UK have opted out.

This book looks at the likely effects of this substantial transfer of powers to the Community. How will the powers and responsibilities be divided? How should the powers be exercised? Will there be input from the public into policymaking? What role will Parliaments play? Will migrants suffer? The foremost scholars from many European countries try to answer these and other questions, offering a variety of legal and social viewpoints.

Contributors: Pieter Boeles (Amsterdam and Leiden), Antje Weiner (Hannover), Cristina Gortazar (Madrid), Guy Goodwin-Gill (Oxford), Nicholas Blake QC (London), Johannes van der Klaauw (UNHCR Brussels), Jens Vedsted Hansen (Aahus), Elspeth Guild (Nijmegen and London), Kees Groenendijk (Nijmegen), Gisbert Brinkmann (Bonn), John Crowley (CERI, Paris), Deirdre Curtin (Utrecht), Roger Errera (Paris), Steve Peers (Essex), Carol Harlow (LSE), Gregor Noll (Lund).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781841131160
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/01/2001
Pages:	356
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Elspeth Guild is Professor of European Migration Law at the University of Nijmegen.
is Reader in Law at University College London
Carol Harlow QC,is Professor of Public Law at the LSE.

Editorial Reviews

Implementing Amsterdam is an excellent reminder of the discrepancy between what human rights should be and actual practice in the European Community. Anyone interested in immigration and asylum rights, or human rights in general, should read this book for its examination of the policy implications of the Amsterdam Treaty.” —Columbia Jourbanal of European Law

“Guild and Harlow's collection of essays is clearly a welcome addition to the literature. The book is wide-ranging, comprehensive and very informative.
Taking the collection as a whole, its strengths are considerable. One of its main strengths is the breadth of coverage
Another important strength is the unravelling of the contradictions and dilemmas underpinning the European policy on migration and asylum.
without doubt a well-conceived project which should become a valuable source of reference to all scholars and advanced students working in this field.” —Public Law

From the Publisher

European legal scholars present 12 contributions which address the effects of the transfer of legal and policymaking power in the field of immigration from a national level to the European Community. Some topics addressed include the developing right of citizen access to information on asylum and immigration decision-making; individual rights and common control of EU external borders; and security of residence and access to free movement for settled third country nationals under community law. Includes a table of cases and a table of legislation. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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