In the recent years the European Union has been faced with increased numbers of arrivals of people who strive for a better life or flee from persecution, human rights violations or environmental disasters. The responses of the member states to these developments are predominantly based on penalising measures directed against aliens, which was importantly driven by the harmonisation of the EU law in the field of migration and asylum. In the European Union at least 17 member states criminalised unlawful border crossing or unlawful presence and prescribed fines or imprisonment for such crimes. The rest of the member states treat such offences as misdemeanours or criminalise only continuous violation of the law. While human rights are still considered to be a value on the declaratory level, what we can observe in fact is the increasingly intensive merging of crime control and migration control, i.e. criminalisation of migration - crimmigration.
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The purpose of the article is to analyse the migration corridor managed by the state authorities on the Balkan migration route in the second half of 2015, understand it from the perspective of the existing legal and institutional frameworks, and show that the corridor was a phenomenon outside of national and European positive law, while at the same time it responded to the requirements of international human rights principles. The corridor was a clear, intentional and coordinated deviation from legal provisions. It amounted to a state of exception, a certain level of state of emergency in which the rules adopted by the national and European legislatures were suspended and replaced by internal instructions or decrees, or even with constantly changing state practices. The analysis involved comparison of a positive normative framework with the actual procedures carried out by the state structures, and identification of discrepancies which were then qualitatively evaluated from the perspective of international standards. Another purpose of the article was to show that the corridor which was also sometimes referred to as a "humanitarian corridor", only seemed humanitarian since in fact it served a completely different purpose, namely the interest of state authorities for the refugees and migrants to leave their territories as quickly as possible.
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Across Europe, a rise in hate speech against migrants and Muslims is apparent, especially in relation to the current “refugee crisis”. Islam in Slovenia is the second largest religion after Catholicism, yet the perception of Muslims as the vilified Other remains racialized, gendered and burdened by orientalist misconceptions just as is generally the case in the “West”. Focusing on anti-immigrant hate speech, this chapter has two goals: it sets out to overview the most current developments subsumed under the so-called debate on hate speech in Slovenia, while seeking to answer the question of how best to address the rising racist anti-immigration and anti-Muslim attitudes. Since Slovenia faces a lack of mechanisms for the prosecution of hate speech, a number of civil society actors have lately taken up the initiative to act.
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