Search results for "Family reunification"
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La riunificazione familiare dello straniero nei trattati sui diritti umani
2010
Family reunification contributes to the integration of aliens in the countries of destination and the development of their personality as well, but it entails the increase in the demand for social facilities. As a consequence States tend to reduce the opportunities for family reunification. The study analyses the activity of the organs of control set up by the international conventions on human rights and aims at identifying the obligations on States’ sovereignty stemming from the rules of these conventions protecting family life or disciplining family reunification. In assessing the lawfulness of States’ rules on family reunification or decisions on individual cases these organs verify whe…
Care and reunification in a Cape Verdean family: Changing articulations of family and legal ties
2018
This article looks at the interaction between transnational family relationships, on the one hand, and family-related immigration policies, on the other. Taking the conflicting concerns that arose between administrative decision-makers and family members during an attempt to reunite a Cape Verdean family spread across several countries as an example, the questions of what ‘family’ means, what relationships are included and the nature of the relationships involved answered differently by different actors will be shown. The article discusses the way in which the regulation of transnational mobility according to specific categories of eligibility is giving social ties a concrete legal form whi…
THE CONCEPT OF “FAMILY” IN SOMALIS’ IMMIGRATION TO FINLAND Views from Immigration Officials and NGOs
2016
In Addis Ababa one can see dozens of Somali families waiting daily in front of the Embassy of Finland to be interviewed. The interview represents a means of entering Finland, since those waiting presumably have a so-called family re-unifier in Finland, a relative who has of ten already received a residence permit and sometimes even citizenship. This article examines the family reunification process of Somalis who travel from Ethiopia to Finland. Drawing on the experiences related by Finnish immigration officials, it focuses on the fact that they do not share the same definition of “family” as the Somali asylum applicants. Using extensive inter views and observations, this article aims to el…
Norms matter! The role of international norms in EU policies on asylum and immigration
2014
Abstract This Article investigates how international norms impact on eu asylum and immigration policy. To this end we scrutinize the assumption that the robustness of international norms indicates the quality of eu integration. Drawing on international norms literature we argue that four characters define an international norms’ robustness: specificity in definition, binding force, coherence with domestic law and international law, and concordant understanding among actors. Our analysis covers three eu policy areas, asylum policy, family reunification policy, and labour migration policy. Across the three areas international norms had varying degrees of robustness at the time of eu negotiat…
Singularidades y retos normativos en el control genético de la inmigración familiar hacia España, Italia y Portugal
2010
Resumen En Europa, varios paises han implementado las pruebas genéticas para controlar los flujos migratorios que cruzan sus fronteras por reagrupación familiar. Este artículo ofrece un análisis crítico sobre los riesgos del recurso generalizado a las pruebas genéticas en los procedimientos de reagrupación familiar en países como España, Italia y Portugal. De un lado, se plantea en qué modo se ha recogido su práctica en las normativas de extranjería y de otro lado se reflexiona sobre su posible incompatibilidad con la protección y garantías exigidas de los derechos fundamentales en el ámbito nacional e internacional es destacada. Abstract In Europe, many countries are using genetic testin…
Processes and experiences of Portugal's international recruitment scheme of Colombian physicians: Did it work?
2017
Abstract The Portuguese Ministry of Health performed five international recruitment rounds of Latin American physicians due to the need for physicians in certain geographic areas of the country and in some specialties, as a temporary solution to shortages. Among these recruitments is that of Colombian physicians in 2011 that was the largest of the five groups. This paper presents an evaluation of the international recruitment procedure of Colombian physicians based on the criteria of procedural outcomes and health system outcomes. The methodology used is qualitative, based on semi-structured interviews with key informants and Colombian physicians recruited in Portugal and also on documentar…
La transformación de la esfera familiar en el Derecho de extranjería español
2013
espanolLa articulacion legal del derecho a la vida familiar en Derecho de extranjeria se rige por una logica restrictiva cuyo alcance implica una autentica "metamorfosis" de las relaciones familiares. De un lado, la ley combina una composicion nuclear y dependiente para promover un ideal tipo dominante de familia que resulta abiertamente excluyente de otras realidades familiares existentes en la realidad social. Y de otro lado, neutraliza la diversidad del entorno familiar modulando otras formas de reconocimiento con vistas a instaurar un modelo de familia preferiblemente no conflictivo. Desde una perspectiva critica, este trabajo se centra el verdadero alcance del regimen de la reagrupacio…
Novedades en la reagrupación de los progenitores extranjeros por parte de un menor comunitario
2011
[EN] This paper analyses the last novelties both in the EU law and in the spanish legal system concerning the legal status of those minors that enjoy citizenship of a member state and try to exercise their rights to family reunification with their anscestor, when these ancestors are national of athird Country. Specifically, the paper focuses on the analisis of two judgments: the Zambrano Case of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the ruling of the Courtfor contentious administrative proceedings of the Spanish Suprem Court of the1 of june 2010. Finally, the paper sheds light on the consequences of thesetwo rulings in the EU nationality law and in the field of minor rights inSpani…
The ideal restructuring of migrant families in the immigration law
2013
The legal configuration of kinship ties in immigration law is governed by a restrictive logic that combines a dependent and nuclear composition with mismatches in the concrete form of managing the distances, the dynamics and the times at origin and destination. The family model in immigration law has an ideal and dominant approach openly excluding other family realities in the social context. Law in an inherent tendency towards the ideal doesn’t allow a legitimate choice between autonomy and individual freedom in order to define or not the family project and own relationships. In this paper I discuss from a critical approach the inconsistencies presented by the current Spanish immigration l…
Family reunification: the case of the Muslim migrant children in Europe
2014
Adopting a child is not a legal concept recognized in Islamic law, which, while giving great importance to orphans and children’s rights, has introduced the legal institution of the Kafala. This institution can be defined as a commitment by the kafil to ensure maintenance, education and protection of a minor makfoul until his legal majority, in the same way as would a father to his son, but without creating any family relationship. For these reasons the Kafala cannot be compared to an international adoption, which, contrariwise, entails the creation of a parent-child relationship. On one side the Kafala is a legal concept recognized by International Law, in particular by the United Nations …