Forced "Return" of Migrants to Transit and Fourth Countries

This book examines the lawfulness of the forced return of irregular migrants. Its central concern is the practice of sending individuals by force to countries of which they are not nationals and with which they often lack a meaningful connection. In addition to transit-country returns, the book analyses so-called “returns” to fourth countries, a misnomer used here to describe removals to states where the individual has never previously been present. Transit- and fourth-country arrangements ...