Entwicklungen und Perspektiven des Migrationsrechts zwischen Umbruch und Kontinuität

Abstract Providing a comprehensive review of the recent developments in migration and refugee law proves to be an impossible undertaking – one reason being the vast diversity of this area of law, which includes asylum, work or family migration, the other being the mix of actors in the multi-level system. The events of 2015, which are more likely to be referred to as “refugee protection crises” rather than a “refugee crisis”, undoubtedly mark a turning point. They have not only revealed the shortcomings of the Common EU Asylum System, but have triggered a broad societal debate on immigration as such. The focus of the following report will be on refugee law. First, the supra-national aspects of this increasingly Europeanized area of law shall be determined. Furthermore, the recent and various changes in national law shall be analyzed, ranging from the acceleration of asylum procedures, the efforts to limit and control migration up to the establishment of socio-economic incentive structures in order to avoid “bogus” asylum procedures. Finally, the article provides an overview of the perspectives of European and national migration and refugee law.