Etrangers, de quel droit?


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Historical and comparison of the social status and legal status of foreigners, esp. Immigrants - describes the situation of foreigners in ancient society, the rise of the nation-state, international laws governing foreigners, discrimination, recent laws on immigration, nationality, illegal acts, offenders against the law, etc. References.




Droit des étrangers en France


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L'immigration et l'asile ne figuraient pas dans le programme du président élu. Pourtant, dès le 12 juillet 2017, le gouvernement a annoncé un "plan d'action pour garantir le droit d'asile et mieux maîtriser les flux migratoires". Ce plan incluait la mise en chantier d'une nouvelle réforme législative, alors que deux ans à peine s'étaient écoulés depuis la précédente réforme du droit d'asile issue de la loi du 29 juillet 2015 et qu'il était a fortiori trop tôt pour tirer un bilan de la loi du 7 mars 2016 "relative au droit des étrangers en France". Mais sans doute s'agissait-il pour ce gouvernement de montrer qu'il prenait en main la question "des migrants". Même si la France n'a été affectée que de façon très marginale par l'augmentation du nombre de demandeurs d'asile en Europe au cours de la période 2015-2016, c'est à "une pression migratoire d'une ampleur inédite", caractérisée notamment par la présence de "campements illégaux [qui] se constituent dans les territoires et les agglomérations les plus exposés à la pression migratoire au détriment de tous : migrants, riverains et pouvoirs publics" qu'il est fait référence dans l'exposé des motifs de la loi. Loi "pour une immigration maîtrisée, un droit d'asile effectif et une intégration réussie" : on notera l'inversion des priorités entre le plan d'action et la loi puisqu'en réalité, celle-ci place au premier plan la maîtrise des flux migratoires. La référence à l'intégration, ajoutée en cours de route, est purement incantatoire : on cherche à la loupe les dispositions qui en relèvent (par exemple le régime plus protecteur accordé aux bénéficiaires de la protection subsidiaire). De façon générale, la loi insère dans la réglementation en vigueur une série de mesures ponctuelles qui finissent par tisser un ensemble d'une complexité extrême laquelle ne saurait masquer les répercussions néfastes sur les droits des personnes étrangères. On pense notamment au renforcement des pouvoirs de la police, à la création de nouveaux délits, à l'allongement de la durée de rétention et à toutes les mesures de contrainte visant à faciliter l'éloignement. S'agissant du droit d'asile, sous couvert d'accélérer les délais de traitement des demandes, c'est bien une logique de tri qui prévaudra. Ce cahier juridique est le fruit du travail collectif de 11 organisations. Il propose une analyse complète et critique de la loi du 10 septembre 2018. Un éclairage indispensable pour se repérer dans les méandres d'un droit qui poursuit sa complexification et devient toujours plus inaccessible aux personnes auxquelles il est destiné.




Le droit des étrangers pratique


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Quelle est la bonne carte de séjour à demander ? Quelles conditions permettent d’obtenir le droit d’asile ? Comment procéder au regroupement familial ? Comment devenir Français ? Quels dangers courent les immigrés clandestins ? Cet ouvrage apporte des réponses concrètes à ces questions et à bien d’autres auxquelles sont confrontés les candidats à l’immigration aussi bien que les immigrés. Guide pratique écrit en langage non technique, il se veut une aide précieuse pour les non juristes confrontés au très complexe droit des étrangers. Indiquant systématiquement toutes les références aux textes juridiques visés, de la loi jusqu’aux circulaires, il sera aussi un outil indispensable pour les professionnels.







How to Be French


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How to Be French is a magisterial history of French nationality law from 1789 to the present, written by Patrick Weil, one of France’s foremost historians. First published in France in 2002, it is filled with captivating human dramas, with legal professionals, and with statesmen including La Fayette, Napoleon, Clemenceau, de Gaulle, and Chirac. France has long pioneered nationality policies. It was France that first made the parent’s nationality the child’s birthright, regardless of whether the child is born on national soil, and France has changed its nationality laws more often and more significantly than any other modern democratic nation. Focusing on the political and legal confrontations that policies governing French nationality have continually evoked and the laws that have resulted, Weil teases out the rationales of lawmakers and jurists. In so doing, he definitively separates nationality from national identity. He demonstrates that nationality laws are written not to realize lofty conceptions of the nation but to address specific issues such as the autonomy of the individual in relation to the state or a sudden decline in population. Throughout How to Be French, Weil compares French laws to those of other countries, including the United States, Great Britain, and Germany, showing how France both borrowed from and influenced other nations’ legislation. Examining moments when a racist approach to nationality policy held sway, Weil brings to light the Vichy regime’s denaturalization of thousands of citizens, primarily Jews and anti-fascist exiles, and late-twentieth-century efforts to deny North African immigrants and their children access to French nationality. He also reveals stark gender inequities in nationality policy, including the fact that until 1927 French women lost their citizenship by marrying foreign men. More than the first complete, systematic study of the evolution of French nationality policy, How to be French is a major contribution to the broader study of nationality.




Dictionary of European actors


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If the European political space has been extensively explored, research has remained all too often focused on the institutions of the European Union and the Council of Europe rather than on the actors who make Europe. This dictionary brings a new angle to scholarship on Europe by systematically investigating its actors: those who work within the institutions or in close contact with them; those who are the targets of European policies; those in the name of whom reforms are carried out; those who promote Europe and those who oppose it. It showcases a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach that bridges the usual separation between the European Union and the Council of Europe. In each entry, contributors selected among the leading specialists in their fields of research present the state of the art and the most current research perspectives on European actors. Students, teachers and researchers with an interest in Europe will find this volume to be a valuable work of reference and a source of new and stimulating ideas and perspectives on Europe. More broadly, the dictionary will appeal to ‘professionals of Europe’ eager to gain insights into their working environment as well as to readers interested in understanding Europe through its actors.




Reconstructing Citizenship


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Studying the politics of citizenship reforms and immigration in contemporary France, Reconstructing Citizenship reveals the influential roles played by key figures and institutions in reconstructing French citizenship. An extended political process framework is used by Feldblum to study domestic changes in citizenship policies, nationality reforms, and immigrant incorporation politics. Focused on a decade of citizenship conflicts in France, Reconstructing Citizenship provides new insight into the re-envisioning of national membership taking place not just in France, but across European politics today.




The Family and the Nation


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The French Revolution transformed the nation's—and eventually the world's—thinking about citizenship, nationality, and gender roles. At the same time, it created fundamental contradictions between citizenship and family as women acquired new rights and duties but remained dependents within the household. In The Family and the Nation, Jennifer Ngaire Heuer examines the meaning of citizenship during and after the revolution and the relationship between citizenship and gender as these ideas and practices were reworked in the late 1790s and early nineteenth century.Heuer argues that tensions between family and nation shaped men's and women's legal and social identities from the Revolution and Terror through the Restoration. She shows the critical importance of relating nationality to political citizenship and of examining the application, not just the creation, of new categories of membership in the nation. Heuer draws on diverse historical sources—from political treatises to police records, immigration reports to court cases—to demonstrate the extent of revolutionary concern over national citizenship. This book casts into relief France's evolving attitudes toward patriotism, immigration, and emigration, and the frequently opposing demands of family ties and citizenship.




La méthode de la référence à l'ordre juridique compétent en droit international privé


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Sovereign Equality of States in International Law, R.P. Anand R.P. Anand, Professor at the Jawaharlal University of New Delhi, points out in the introduction of his course that the principle of sovereign equality of States refers to two twin principles which are accepted as unimpeachable norms of modern international law which cannot be questioned: the principles of equality and of sovereignty of States. Taking this as his starting point, the author first discusses the sovereignty of States in an interdependent world. He then examines the principle of equality of States in an unequal world from a historical perspective. Finally, Professor Anand tackles the questions of equality of States in a hierarchical world order, and mini-States and equality of rights. La Méthode de la Référence à l'Ordre juridique compétent en Droit international privé, Paolo Picone Paolo Picone, Professor at the University of Naples, notes in the introduction to his course that contemporary international law, such as it evolved during the 19th century, developed different methods of coordination. One method has nevertheless been neglected, which consist in choosing not the applicable law, but the competent legal system. After discussing the crisis in private international law, the author examines the method of coordination of legal systems based on the applicable law, followed by one that is based on reference to the @@@competent legal system. @@@He describes the functioning of the latter method in the case of the creation of legal situations in the @@@for, and in the case of recognition of foreign legal situations in the for. Professor Picone finishes his course by investigating the use of this method in solving the problem of preliminary matters in private international law, the method's area of application and its future prospects.




Who is a Refugee?


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This book provides a comparative study of refugee case law in Europe and North America. Nearly five thousand decisions were recorded and one thousand five hundred have been considered in the national reports. This descriptive work is followed by a more analytical part, offering a new way to interpret the definition of a refugee based on three elements: Risk, Persecution and Proof (R.P.P.), summarized in the `Theory of the Three Scales'. This book will be of great interest to organisations, practitioners and decisions makers in Refugee Law, and to scholars of Comparative Law. Of related interest: Europe and Refugees: A Challenge?/L'Europe et les réfugiés: un défi?, edited by Jean-Yves Carlier and Dirk Vanheule (Kluwer Law International, 1997, 90-411-0347-3), contains a collection of essays analysing the plight of refugees today, paying particular attention to the situation in Europe, and to the new European treaties such as the Dublin Convention, the Schengen Agreement and the Resolution of the European Union.