Identity Determination Dilemmas: Whose National Are You?

The Pact on Migration and Asylum: Turning the European Territory into a Non-territory?

“…Firstly, they starkly reflect a reconsideration of the EU approach to a 'common readmission policy' which has veered from "a normative approach to a flexible one." 64 Moreover, such a reconsideration may "increase the inconsistencies and, arguably, further undermine the credibility of the EU's readmission policy" 65 in its claim to build common and harmonized proceduresall the more so when we realize that the drive for flexibility turns the EU into a facilitator (not a supervisor) who lays the groundwork for reinforced and variegated bilateral cooperative patterns, 66 especially when it comes to dealing with rules of identification and redocumentation of migrants, interagency cooperation, effective protection of personal data, exchange of information between each member state and a cooperative third country and, last but not least, with such procedural safeguards as due process and right to remedy. Beyond these technical aspects, it is important to realize that the cobweb of bilateral agreements linked to readmission has expanded as a result of tremendously complex bilateral dynamics that go well beyond mere management of international migration.…”

The powers of competent authorities in the readmission of persons between Ukraine and EU member states

“…In general, the issues covered in our paper have been researched by the following Ukrainian and foreign scholars: L. Ananko (Л. В. Ананко) [11; 12], O. Bilokon (О. В. Білоконь) [13], S. Carrera [14], J.-P. Cassarino [15], M. Giuffre [16], N. Naumenko (Н. М. Науменко) [17], O. Nimko (О. Б. Німко) and S. Mamchur (С. М. Мамчур) [18], O. Oleksiv (О. Б. Олексів) [19], V. Osypova (В. В. Осипова) [20], Yu. Paukova (Ю. В. Паукова) [21], I. Pliuhina (И. В. Плюгина) [22], A. Shenderovska (А. В. Шендеровська) [23] and others.…”