Human Rights and the Dark Side of Globalisation

Transnational law enforcement and migration control

Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Jens Vedsted-Hansen, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Jens Vedsted-Hansen

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781138222243
• eBook ISBN: 9781315408248
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This edited volume examines the continued viability of international human rights law in the context of growing transnational law enforcement. With states increasingly making use of global governance modes, core exercises of public authority such as migration control, surveillance, detention and policing, are increasingly conducted extraterritorially, outsourced to foreign governments or delegated to non-state actors.

New forms of cooperation raise difficult questions about divided, shared and joint responsibility under international human rights law. At the same time, some governments engage in transnational law enforcement exactly to avoid such responsibilities, creatively seeking to navigate the complex, overlapping and sometimes unclear bodies of international law. As such, this volume argues that this area represents a particular dark side of globalisation, requiring both scholars and practitioners to revisit basic assumptions and legal strategies.

The volume will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners of international relations, human rights and public international law.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Notes on contributors
• Preface
• Introduction: human rights in an age of international cooperation
• Part I General issues pertaining to human rights and transnational law enforcement
• Part II Law enforcement and security operations
• Part III Migration control and access to asylum
• Index