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Visas in Migration and Asylum Law: The Key that Opens the Door

Edited by Francesco Luigi Gatta · Mario Savino
Coming Soon Routledge Available July 2026

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ISBN-13
9781032945651
Publisher
Routledge
Publication
July 2026
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This book explores and discusses the different perspectives stemming from the visa as a tool of international mobility. A visa has a multiform nature. It is a `key’ which allows aliens to reach the door of the State. It is also a tool for the State to govern migration and border control. In humanitarian and international protection terms, it is also a tool for human rights protection. Against this background, this book assesses the legal and socio-political implications arising from the multipurpose nature and scope of visas. It is divided in two parts. The first focuses on the visa as an instrument for migration control, contextualizing the rationale behind its invention and the legal challenges it raises. The second part focuses on the visa as a tool for asylum, examining its use for humanitarian purposes, including resettlement schemes and emergency-related evacuation initiatives put in place in different legal systems.

It will be of interest to academics, researchers and policy-makers working in the areas of Migration and Asylum Law, International Human Rights Law and Political Science.

Table of Contents

Foreword by François Crepeau
Introduction
Francesco Gatta, Mario Savino

PART I – VISA & MIGRATION
EU Visa Policy
1. EU Visa Policy: The Invisible First Line of Defence of ‘Fortress Europe’
Daniel Thym
2. EU Visa policy & USA: Cracks in Transatlantic Friendship?
Jonas Bornemann
3. Nationality-Based Schengen Visa and Entry Bans: The Case of Russian Citizens
Dimitry Kochenov, Sarah Ganty, Nurbanu Hayır, Suryapratim Roy

The Legal Challenges
4. Visa and Due Process under EU Law
Mario Savino
5. Digitalising the Visa Procedure: Administrative Efficiency at the Expense of Fundamental Rights?
Niovi Vavoula
6. Visas as a Tool of ‘Migrant Instrumentalisation’? The EU-Belarus Border Crisis Reconsidered
Aleksandra Ancite-Jepifánova
7. Visas and their Meaning and Consequences for Human Rights Defenders
Elspeth Guild, Vasiliki Apatzidou

PART II – VISA & ASYLUM
Seeking Asylum with a Visa
8. Gazans: Perpetual Refugees on the Run
Eugénie Delval, Christine Flamand, Caroline Leclercq, Matthieu Lys, Sylvie Sarolea, Véronique van der Plancke
9. Resettlement: Protection or Control?
Sarah Cosemans
10. Unlocking Access to Protection under the UN Global Compacts: Do Humanitarian Visas Hold the Key?
Pauline Endres de Oliveira, Nikolas Feith-Tan
11. Entry Visas and the European Convention on Human Rights
Francesco Gatta, Lorenzo Acconciamessa
12. Visa and Mobility in Africa: Challenges and Way Ahead
Silindile Nanzile Mlilo

National Visa Policies and Asylum
13. Refugees and Humanitarian Admissions in Australia: Between Control and Management
Susan Kneebone
14. Canada’s Visa Regime: A Global Model at a Crossroads
Elizabeth Hessek, Luna Vives
15. Country Focus: Italy
Luca Galli, Cecilia Siccardi
16. Humanitarian Immigration Programs of the United States
Kit Johnson
Conclusion
Hiroshi Motomura
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