https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/124376 Sun, 05 Jul 2026 14:18:12 GMT 2026-07-05T14:18:12Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/125575 Title: Mediterranean Journal of Human Rights : volume 11 : number 2 Authors: Gallagher, Anna; Pistone, Michele; Zammit, David E. Abstract: Table of contents:; - Editorial: The Subject of Rights immersed in a "Sea of Troubles": Anna Gallagher, Michele Pistone & David E. Zammit; - Refugees, 'Illegal Immigrants' and Asylum Seekers: Use of Discursive Categories and Legitimation of Asylum Policies in Greek Political Discourse: Lena Karamanidou; - The Identity Strategies of Undocumented Migrants in Austria: Katerina Kratzmann; - Blurring Boundaries. "Refugee" Definitions in Policies, Law and Social Discourse in Italy: Chiara Marchetti; - Refugee Children in Egypt and the Right to Education: Examining the Gap between Theory and Practice: Tarek Badawy; - African Refugees in Africa: Perspectives, Challenges and Prospects: Michelo Hansungule; - Beyond the,2l8t Century Hadrian's Wall: the Externalisation of Immigration and Border Control Policy by the European Union: Massimo Frigo; - The EU's Asylum Harmonization Process and Turkey's Efforts for Integration: Atilla Gokturk and Guler Unlu; - Securitization of Migration: the Case of Turkey: Zeynep Belen Artan; - Clandestine Immigration across the Strait of Gibraltar: Effects of Control Mechanisms on Immigration from North Africa: Jose Rodriguez Mesa; - The Regularisation of Undocumented Migrants: a Path to Rights in the European Union: Ruth Ferrero and Gemma Pinyol; - From Security to Development: Migration Contribution to Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation: Andrea Gallina; - Book Reviews; - Abstracts in Arabic Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/125575 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/125574 Title: Editorial : the subject of rights immersed in a "Sea of Troubles" Authors: Gallagher, Anna; Pistone, Michele; Zammit, David E. Abstract: Given the multiple human rights issues implicated by migratory flows, the topic of this special issue of our journal may appear excessively open-ended. In reality, however, the themes addressed by our contributors represent controversial flashpoints in the Mediterranean migratory process as well as in the legal and political responses such migration provokes. These include the replacement of traditional intra-regional migration by more globalised migration, the rise in both the number of undocumented "irregular" immigrants and in mixed migratory flows, the increasingly restrictive immigration policies imposed by Southern European states, the concomitant tendency to resort to asylum law in order to identify legitimate immigrants, and the more prominent role being assumed by EU laws and policies in the field. Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/125574 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/125573 Title: Refugees, 'illegal immigrants' and asylum seekers : use of discursive categories and legitimation of asylum policies in Greek political discourse Authors: Karamanidou, Lena Abstract: It has been noted that the categorisation of migrants into distinct categories and the hardening of the boundaries between these categories has been a significant part of European policy and discourse in immigration and asylum (Lewis and Neal, 2005). While this can be seen as a consequence of the inadequacy of the Geneva Convention definition of refugees in the current socio-political context, it also serves the objectives of EU and state policies of controlling migration and preventing irregular immigration. An example of this trend includes the r e-categorisation of asylum seekers as illegal immigrants, which, as Story (2005:17) argues, 'is a meaningful discursive act, with important repercussions for how asylum seekers and unauthorised migrants are perceived and acted upon.' Irregular migrants have been criminalised and constructed as a threat to the security of the state, a discursive move which legitimates restrictive policies (den Boer, 1996; Humphrey, 2003; Story, 2005). The aim of this paper is, firstly, to examine the employment of the categories 'asylum seeker' 'refugee' and 'illegal immigrant' in Greek political discourse, taking into account domestic as well as European factors. Secondly, it considers its social effects at the discursive level, especially with regards to the legitimation of restrictive policies and the denial of protection to forced migrants. Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/125573 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/125572 Title: The identity strategies of undocumented migrants in Austria Authors: Kratzmann, Katerina Abstract: Undocumented migrants are rarely listened to. They seem to be the object of a discourse that focuses predominantly on the impacts of the so called illegal migration on sending and receiving countries: policy options, asylum systems, governance, migration control, etcetera. In this article, I argue from an ethnological perspective with an emphasis on undocumented migrants' identity strategies. The representations of cultural and ethnical identities, which are represented to create a distance to the unattractive illegal status, are of specific concern. I show the migrants views on what it feels like to be illegal, how this legal categorization affects their identity constructions and which consequences an inclusion of their voices and views would have on policy options. Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/125572 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z