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

Leboeuf, Luc

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

Leboeuf, Luc

2022 • In Laws, 11 (3), p. 45

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asylum applicants; asylum law; Council of Europe; Court of Justice of the European Union; EU law; European Convention of Human Rights; European Court of Human Rights; European Union; human rights law; juridification; refugees; UN Global Compacts; vulnerability; Law

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[en] ‘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.

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European & international law
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Leboeuf, Luc ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Cité ; Law & Anthropology Department, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Hall, Germany ; Law Faculty, Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

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

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June 2022

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H2020 - 870845 - VULNER - Vulnerabilities under the Global Protection Regime: how does the law assess, address, shape, and produce the vulnerabilities of protection seekers?

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