Introduction : immigration detention in contemporary Europe -- Sovereignty, people, and territory -- Limiting sovereign power -- Freedom of movement I : the right to leave as a human right -- Freedom of movement II : decisions on entry as a sovereign prerogative? -- Reaffirming sovereignty and reproducing territoriality : deportation and detention -- International human rights law on immigration detention -- The ECtHR : detention as a 'necessary adjunct' to an 'undeniable sovereign right'? -- Destabilising territorial sovereignty through human rights litigation in immigration detention cases
Summary
Practices of immigration detention in Europe are largely resistant to conventional forms of legal correction. By rethinking the notion of territorial sovereignty in modern constitutionalism, this book puts forward a solution to the problem of legally permissive immigration detention
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-367) and index
