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Abusing the international solidarity principle: Human rights, international solidarity, and the EU’s bilateral migration deals
Review of international studies, First View
2025
Abstract
The international solidarity principle is a crucial legal norm of international society. It helps guide state conduct and facilitate cooperation among international actors to respond to global challenges and uphold human rights. The European Union (EU) and its Member States have argued that their bilateral agreements with non-EU countries to prevent irregular migration to Europe is a demonstration of international solidarity that fulfils their obligations to asylum seekers and refugees. However, the EU’s interpretation of international solidarity in these arrangements has been contested. This article argues that the EU has strategically interpreted the international solidarity principle to fit in with, and complement, its migration deterrence policy framework. It posits that the EU’s interpretation abuses the international solidarity principle as it aims to separate the solidarity principle from the realisation of human rights, thereby hurting, instead of benefitting, asylum seekers and refugees. This article makes an important contribution to understanding how the solidarity principle is interpreted between EU and non-EU partners, and the intimate connection between solidarity and the realisation of human rights. More importantly, it demonstrates how the interpretation and evasion of the international solidarity principle has been shaped by, and shaped to fit, the EU’s migration externalisation policy framework.
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- Title
- Abusing the international solidarity principle: Human rights, international solidarity, and the EU’s bilateral migration deals
- Authors/Creators
- Jamal Barnes - Edith Cowan UniversitySamuel M. Makinda - Murdoch University
- Publication Details
- Review of international studies, First View
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 22
- Identifiers
- 991005809105507891
- Copyright
- © The Author(s), 2025.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Centre for Biosecurity and One Health; Indo-Pacific Research Centre; College of Law, Arts and Social Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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