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The EU Legislator, Frontex and Fundamental Rights (2023)
Book Chapter
Busuttil, N. (2023). The EU Legislator, Frontex and Fundamental Rights. In E. Guild (Ed.), Monitoring Border Violence in the EU. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003424710-4

Chapter 4 examines our case study, Frontex, established in 2004, and the efforts of the EU legislator to ensure the (then) new border police agency's obligations to protect human and fundamental rights. Following the numerous revisions of the law est... Read More about The EU Legislator, Frontex and Fundamental Rights.

The UN Disability Rights Convention and EU Fundamental Rights: What Role for the Convention in the Protection of ‘Unwanted Migrants’? (2022)
Journal Article
Busuttil, N. (2022). The UN Disability Rights Convention and EU Fundamental Rights: What Role for the Convention in the Protection of ‘Unwanted Migrants’?. International Community Law Review, 24(4), 397-417. https://doi.org/10.1163/18719732-bja10091

This article examines the role to be played by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the protection of migrants with disabilities within the EU, in view of the apparent invisibility of this population within existing framewo... Read More about The UN Disability Rights Convention and EU Fundamental Rights: What Role for the Convention in the Protection of ‘Unwanted Migrants’?.

The UN Global Compacts and the Common European Asylum System: Coherence or Friction? (2022)
Journal Article
Guild, E., Allinson, K., & Busuttil, N. (2022). The UN Global Compacts and the Common European Asylum System: Coherence or Friction?. Laws, 11(2), 35. https://doi.org/10.3390/laws11020035

This paper examines the “protective potential” of the Global Compacts on Refugees and Migrants vis à vis existing commitments to fundamental rights within the European Union (EU). The relationship between the two normative frameworks is scrutinised t... Read More about The UN Global Compacts and the Common European Asylum System: Coherence or Friction?.

Physical migration (2021)
Book Chapter
Ayonrinde, O., & Busuttil, N. (2021). Physical migration. In D. Bhugra (Ed.), Oxford Textbook of Migrant Psychiatry (219-230). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198833741.003.0025

This chapter focuses on the migrant’s journey in between the point of departure from the country of residence to arrival in the country of destination, highlighting the ways in which movement is rendered possible across the international legislative... Read More about Physical migration.