Lost in transit? Deconstructing the il/legalisation of migrants at the Franco-British border
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- Maud Martens (UGent)
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- The port town of Calais lies 33,1 kilometers from the coast of England, marking the shortest distance between the European mainland and the UK. This location serves as an important transit zone from where migrants attempt to cross the Channel and seek international protection in the UK. While many migrants in Calais aim to reach the UK, others prefer to apply for international protection in France, and some pursue both options at once. Their journeys are often fragmented and complicated by the Dublin III Regulation, which assigns responsibility for processing applications for international protection to specific EU member states, resulting in numerous forced intra-European deportations. In Calais, migrants find themselves immobilised along their journey, exposed to a specific set of deterrence policies, and illegalised by a wide range of actors, practices and discourses. This reality deprives them of their most fundamental rights, including the right to apply for international protection.
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01JMZ2CZT1SG1B1RQG3WE4DNNW
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- Martens, Maud. “Lost in Transit? Deconstructing the Il/Legalisation of Migrants at the Franco-British Border.” Research Day Law and Criminology 2024, 2024, doi:10.5281/zenodo.14056645.
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- Martens, M. (2024). Lost in transit? Deconstructing the il/legalisation of migrants at the Franco-British border. Research Day Law and Criminology 2024. Presented at the Research Day Law and Criminology 2024, Ghent, Belgium. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14056645
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- Martens, Maud. 2024. “Lost in Transit? Deconstructing the Il/Legalisation of Migrants at the Franco-British Border.” In Research Day Law and Criminology 2024. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14056645.
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- Martens, Maud. 2024. “Lost in Transit? Deconstructing the Il/Legalisation of Migrants at the Franco-British Border.” In Research Day Law and Criminology 2024. doi:10.5281/zenodo.14056645.
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- 1.Martens M. Lost in transit? Deconstructing the il/legalisation of migrants at the Franco-British border. In: Research Day Law and Criminology 2024. 2024.
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- [1]M. Martens, “Lost in transit? Deconstructing the il/legalisation of migrants at the Franco-British border,” in Research Day Law and Criminology 2024, Ghent, Belgium, 2024.
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abstract = {{The port town of Calais lies 33,1 kilometers from the coast of England, marking the shortest distance between the European mainland and the UK. This location serves as an important transit zone from where migrants attempt to cross the Channel and seek international protection in the UK.
While many migrants in Calais aim to reach the UK, others prefer to apply for international protection in France, and some pursue both options at once. Their journeys are often fragmented and complicated by the Dublin III Regulation, which assigns responsibility for processing applications for international protection to specific EU member states, resulting in numerous forced intra-European deportations.
In Calais, migrants find themselves immobilised along their journey, exposed to a specific set of deterrence policies, and illegalised by a wide range of actors, practices and discourses. This reality deprives them of their most fundamental rights, including the right to apply for international protection.}},
author = {{Martens, Maud}},
booktitle = {{Research Day Law and Criminology 2024}},
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title = {{Lost in transit? Deconstructing the il/legalisation of migrants at the Franco-British border}},
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year = {{2024}},
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