Migration and the European Convention on Human Rights
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Case Law
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This chapter reviews the regulation of migration in international law, and locates the treatment of the question of migration in the European Convention on Human Rights. In particular, it shows that the text of the European Convention on Human Rights is silent on the question of migration or the rights of migrants, but that the European Court of Human Rights has nonetheless emerged as a key court for the rights of migrants through its interpretation of the Convention. The chapter then introduces the overall contribution of the collection of articles as a whole: a comprehensive and critical appraisal of the migration case law of the European Court of Human Rights.