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This chapter examines the emergence of regional and international norms that have attempted to establish rules on the treatment of immigrants. It seeks to explain how, despite the creation of international and regional systems that have a strong normative prescription with regard to the treatment of non-citizens, the development of national immigration regimes have continued to operate in open contradiction and defiance of these.

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Notes

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    Adopted 1966, entered into force 1976.

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    The commitment made at Lisbon (2007) for the EU to accede as 48th member of the Council of Europe ended up quite a complex process—a draft agreement was rejected by the European Court of Justice in December 2014.

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    At the time of writing (April 2015), the EU Commission was due to publish its ‘comprehensive migration plan’ in May 2015.

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    The ‘Franco-Italian affair’ refers to the closing of the border between the two countries after Italy had issued temporary residence permits to North African refugees.

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    EU Commissioner for Internal Affairs, Cecilia Malmström, on 25 July 2011 claimed the ‘spirit of Schengen’ had not been respected when the border between the countries was closed after Italy had issued temporary residence permits to North African refugees.

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    The UK is part of 14 such EU readmission agreements with: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Georgia, Hong Kong, Macau, Moldova, Montenegro, Pakistan, Russia, Serbia, Sri Lanka, Turkey, and Ukraine.

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Balch, A. (2016). The Human Rights Deficit. In: Immigration and the State. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-38589-5_3

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