The Juridification of ‘Vulnerability’ through EU Asylum Law: The Quest for Bridging the Gap between the Law and Asylum Applicants’ Experiences

Luc Leboeuf
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Luc Leboeuf: Law & Anthropology Department, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, 06114 Hall, Germany

Laws, 2022, vol. 11, issue 3, 1-19

Abstract: ‘Vulnerability’ is flooding EU asylum law. Based on the analysis of the ECtHR’s case-law in deportation cases, the EU Directives’ provisions towards ‘vulnerable’ asylum applicants, and their implementation in the domestic legislations and practices of two EU member states that were studied as part of the VULNER project (Belgium and Italy), this contribution establishes a typology of the various legal and bureaucratic functions that ‘vulnerability’ has received in the EU. It also reflects on the ‘juridification’ trend at play, the implementation challenges that have emerged as a result, and how they are currently being addressed in the EU.

Keywords: vulnerability; asylum law; human rights law; EU law; European Union; Court of Justice of the European Union; Council of Europe; European Court of Human Rights; European Convention of Human Rights; asylum applicants; UN Global Compacts; refugees; juridification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D78 E61 E62 F13 F42 F68 K0 K1 K2 K3 K4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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