The Legal Status of “Migrants” according to the European Union Legislation

Nicolae V. Dură

doi:10.31261/EaL.2021.09.2.05

Published: 2021-12-31

Vol. 9 No. 2 (2021)

The Legal Status of “Migrants” according to the European Union Legislation

Nicolae V. Dură

Section: Part One: Ecumenical Juridical Thought

https://doi.org/10.31261/EaL.2021.09.2.05

Abstract

Given that “migration” is a global phenomenon, the international community as a whole had to provide it with a legal basis and to find global solutions, as proven à l’évidence by both the international and the European legislation and the “Global Compact for Migration” approved by the European Council. As is well known, the European Union legislation consists of the texts of its official instruments, such as conventions, treaties, declarations, etc., in which we also find, in fact, the principles stated in the international instruments, which have, indeed, the force of jus cogens for all the states of the world, concerning the universal human rights, including, thus, the rights of the migrants. However, even in terms of their policy regarding migrants, the member states of the European Union have not only applied the principles stated in these international instruments, but they also have enacted a special legislation, and they have taken concrete measures for the implementation of its rules. In the present article I offer the reader the possibility to become acquainted not only with the text of the legislation of the European Union regarding migrants, but also with the policy and the actions taken by the European states for the implementation of the international legislation, and of the European one regarding the social rights of the migrants as workers.

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Vol. 9 No. 2 (2021)
Published: 2021-12-31

ISSN: 2353-4877

eISSN: 2391-4327

10.31261/EaL

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