EU ‘return hubs’: what are they, and how will they change the rights of migrants and asylum seekers?

By María Teresa Gil Bazo, Profesora Titular de Derecho Internacional y Relaciones Internacionales y Cátedra Jean Monnet en Estudios Europeos, Universidad de Navarra

The EU is in the process of creating a new system that will make it easier to return irregularly present migrants to their country of origin. The legislation, known as the Returns Regulation, includes measures that make it possible to detain more people – including children and families – for longer periods of time.

This marks a major shift in European migration policy, as until now EU Member States could only detain irregularly present migrants as a last resort under specific circumstances. Not all States even had detention policies, and where they did, detention centres were almost…

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