Immigration Detention and Human Rights -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Immigration Detention in Contemporary Europe -- 1.1 Immigration Detention and Modern Constitutionalism -- 1.2 Detention as a Tool of Immigration Control in Europe: An Overview -- 1.2.1 Detention upon Arrival -- 1.2.2 The Use of Detention within the Asylum System -- 1.2.3 Detention and Removal -- 1.3 Immigration Detention: Current Research and Outline of this Book -- Part I Theory -- Chapter 2 Sovereignty, People and Territory -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 A Claim to Ultimate Political Power -- 2.2.1 The Development of the Modern Notion of Sovereignty -- 2.2.2 The People as the Source of Legitimate Power -- 2.3 A Territorial Solution to the Problem of Universality versus Particularity -- 2.3.1 Territorialisation: Changing Identities and Allegiances -- 2.3.2 The Discovery of the Nation: Inconsistent Universalism? -- 2.3.3 National Identity as the Basis for Territorial Sovereignty -- 2.4 On Sovereignty's Content and Form, and the (Il)Legitimacy of Violence -- Chapter 3 Limiting Sovereign Power -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Constitutionalism as the Theory and Practice of the Limits on Political Power -- 3.2.1 Formal Limits on Government and Rules of Institutional Design -- 3.2.2 Individual Rights as Material Limits to Political Power -- 3.2.3 A Brief Note on Constitutionalism's Limits -- 3.3 Citizenship, Individual Rights, and Territory -- 3.3.1 Citizenship: An Apparent Paradox? -- 3.3.2 National Citizenship as a Condition for Access to Universal Rights -- 3.3.3 Citizenship's Structuring Role in a Global Territorial Structure -- 3.4. International Law and Violence -- 3.4.1 The Sovereign State as the True and Only Subject of International Law -- 3.4.2 Types of Violence Regulated by Classical International Law.

3.4.3 International Human Rights Law -- 3.5 Human Rights: Closing the Gap between Us and Them/Inside and Outside? -- 3.5.1 'Us' and 'Them' within the Contemporary State: Post-national Citizenship -- 3.5.2 Human Rights and Sovereignty's Territorial Claims -- 3.6 Conclusions: A Particularistic Universalism? -- Part II Doctrine and Practice -- Chapter 4 Freedom of Movement I: The Right to Leave as a Human Right -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Development of the Right to Emigrate -- 4.3 General Legal Framework of the Right to Leave -- 4.4 The Right to Leave in the Context of Immigration Control -- 4.5 On the Right to Leave and the Visibility of the Content of Sovereignty -- Chapter 5 Freedom of Movement II: Decisions on Entry as a Sovereign Prerogative? -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Development of a Sovereign Right to Exclude -- 5.3 The Right to Enter and Remain in International Law -- 5.3.1 General Limitations on the Sovereign Right to Exclude -- 5.3.2 Refugee Law and the Prohibition of Non-refoulement -- 5.3.3 Family Life and Limits on Immigration Control -- 5.4 Immigration into and within the EU: The Obduracy of the National Border? -- 5.4.1 Freedom of Movement within an Area without Internal Borders -- 5.4.2 The External Border: The Common Immigration and Asylum Policy -- 5.5 Free Movement: Territoriality Shapes the Relation between State Power and Rights -- 5.5.1 Territoriality and Limitations on the State's Exclusionary Powers -- 5.5.2 Territoriality and the Asymmetry of International Movement -- Chapter 6 Reaffirming Sovereignty and Reproducing Territoriality: Deportation and Detention -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Deportation as Administrative Practice -- 6.3 Immigration Detention, State Power, and Territoriality -- 6.4 Maintaining the Territorial Order -- Chapter 7 International Human Rights Law on Immigration Detention -- 7.1 Introduction.

7.2 The Human Right to Personal Liberty: A Prohibition on Arbitrary Detention -- 7.2.1 The Prohibition on Arbitrariness in Article 9 ICCPR -- 7.2.2 Article 9 ICCPR and Procedural Guarantees for Immigration Detainees -- 7.2.3 Conditions of Immigration Detention: An Indication of Arbitrariness? -- 7.3 Human Rights and the Detention of Refugees and Asylum Seekers -- 7.4 Regional Discourse: The Council of Europe and Immigration Detention -- 7.5 Emerging EC Law on the Detention of Immigrants and Asylum Seekers -- 7.6 The Right to Personal Liberty vs. Territorial Sovereignty -- Chapter 8 The ECtHR: Detention as a 'Necessary Adjunct' to an 'Undeniable Sovereign Right'? -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Immigration Detention and the Right to Personal Liberty in the ECHR -- 8.2.1 The Immigration Context: Deprivations or Restrictions upon Liberty? -- 8.2.2 'Lawful' Detention in 'Accordance with a Procedure Prescribed by Law' -- 8.3 Procedural Safeguards against Arbitrary Detention -- 8.3.1 The Right to be Informed of the Reasons for Detention -- 8.3.2 Habeas Corpus or the Right to Challenge the Lawfulness of Detention -- 8.3.3 Compensation for Unlawful Deprivations of Liberty -- 8.4 The Notion of Arbitrariness in the Strasbourg Case Law on Immigration Detention -- 8.4.1 Chahal and Saadi: Unnecessary and Disproportionate, but Lawful Detention -- 8.4.2 Immigration Detention and the ECtHR: Proportionality 'Lite'? -- 8.5 How to Reconcile the Human Right to Liberty with the Public Interest? -- 8.5.1 The Proportionality Principle as a General Principle in the ECHR -- 8.5.2 Detention of Persons who are Mentally Ill, Alcoholics and Vagrants -- 8.6 Immigration Detention as the Blind Spot of the ECtHR? -- Part III Conclusions -- Chapter 9 Destabilising Territorial Sovereignty through Human Rights Litigation in Immigration Detention Cases -- 9.1 Introduction.

9.2 Territorial Sovereignty as an Institution: The Shaping of Norms and Practices -- 9.2.1 Nationalism as Social Practice and the Reification of Territorial Sovereignty -- 9.2.2 The Territorial Limitations of Modern Constitutionalism -- 9.2.3 Constitutionalism's Limits Exemplified: The Legal Regulation of Human Movement -- 9.3 Territorial Sovereignty as an Institution with Ontological Significance and Immigration Detention as the Litmus Test for the Modern Territorial Order -- 9.4 Destabilising Territorial Sovereignty through Human Rights Law -- 9.4.1 The Restrained but Radical Potential of Human Rights -- 9.4.2 Human Rights as Destabilisation Rights: Towards Territoriality 'Lite'? -- 9.5 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Table of Cases -- Index.