Publications - Research - Studies

PRESS articles

• Hannah Neidhardt, Imke Behrends, Julia Winkler, Neues Deutschland (21.06.2024: Doppelmoral bei Strafverfolgung von Migration (Sogenannte Schleuser-Prozesse in Pirna belegen eine verfehlte Migrationspolitik)
• 21.06.2024Matthias Monroy, Neues Deutschland (20.06.2024): EU-Gericht verhandelt »Überkriminalisierung« von Fluchthilfe (Die Anti-Schleuser-Gesetzgebung der EU gefährdet Grundrechte, erklärt die Iuventa-Rechtsanwältin Francesca Cancellaro)
• Giansandro Merli, Il Manifesto (19.06.2024) https://ilmanifesto.it/la-corte-ue-processa-il-reato-di-solidarieta (EU court tries "solidarity crime")
• Giansandro Merli, Il Manifesto (16.06.2024): Corte di giustizia Ue, una sentenza per ribaltare il «reato di solidarietà» (EU Court of Justice, a ruling to overturn the 'solidarity crime').
• Interview with Francesca Cancellaro, Melting Pot (04.10.2023): "Caso Iuventa: le violazioni dei diritti fondamentali e la politicizzazione del processo" (The Iuventa case: violations of fundamental rights and the politicisation of the trial).
• Melting Pot (27.07.2023): "La CGUE valuterà la legittimità del reato di favoreggiamento dell’immigrazione irregolare" (The CJEU will assess the legality of the crime of aiding and abetting irregular immigration).
• Sistema Penale (17.07.2023): "Rimessa alla Corte di Giustizia dell’Unione europea una questione pregiudiziale sulla criminalizzazione del favoreggiamento dell’ingresso irregolare di stranieri" (Referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union for a preliminary ruling on the criminalisation of aiding and abetting the illegal entry of foreigners).
• Luigi Ferrarrella, Corriere Della Sera (04.06.2023): "Immigrazione, va punito chi viola la legge per solidarietà? L'Europa si interroga partendo da un caso italiano" (Immigration, should those who break the law for solidarity be punished? Europe questions itself starting from an Italian case)".
• Giansandro Merli, Il Manifesto (14.05.2023): "I legali di Iuventa: il reato di favoreggiamento è illegittimo, intervengano Consulta e Corte Ue" (Iuventa's lawyers: the crime of aiding and abetting is illegitimate, let the Constitutional Court and the EU Court intervene).

ACADEMIC publications & STUDIES

ON THE KINSHASA CASE

• Stefano Zirulia, Sistema Penale (20.06.2024): https://www.sistemapenale.it/it/articolo/giornata-mondiale-del-rifugiato-loccasione-per-avviare-un-dibattito-sulla-depenalizzazione-del-favoreggiamento-dellingresso-per-ragioni-umanitarie (World Refugee Day: an opportunity to start a debate on decriminalization of aiding and abetting irregular entry for humanitarian reasons)
• Stefano Zirulia, VerfBlog (10.06.2024): "Waiting for Kinsa: The Criminalisation of Facilitating Irregular Immigration before the CJEU".
• Teresa Quadt, VerfBlog (29.02.2024): "No Benefit: Germany's section 96 in light of theKinshasa Referral".
• Cathryn Costello and Stefano Zirulia, VerfBlog (29.02..2024): "Pushing Back: How to Limit Overcriminalisation of Assistance to Those in Need of Protection".
• Valsamis Mitsilegas, EU Migration Law Blog (13.02.2024): "Reforming the EU ‘Facilitators’ Package’: The new Commission proposal in the light of the Kinshasa litigation".
• Lorenzo Bernardini, Diritto, Immigrazione e Cittadinanza (2024): "Il delit de solidarité davanti alla Corte di Giustizia; il caso Kinshasa come game changer per le politiche migratorie europee" (The solidarity crime before the Court of Justice: the Kinshasa case as a game changer for European migration policies).

ON THE NEW FACILITATORS' DIRECTIVE PROPOSAL

• Violeta Moreno-Lax (17.04.2024): Solidarity Crimes, Legitimacy Limits: Punishing Civil Obedience as an Abuse of Power", in VerfBlog.
• Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders (February 2024): "Position Paper: on the EU Commission’s proposed Directive to update the EU legal framework on people smuggling".
• Federico Alagna and Gabriella Sanchez (08.01.2024): "The persisting challenges of the new European Commission's smuggling directive proposal", in Border Criminologies, Oxford University.
• Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN): "Facilitation Directive: Feedback provided to the European Commission by the Border Violence Monitoring Network".
• PICUM (March 2024): "PICUM’s inputs to the European Commission consultation on the Facilitation Directive".

ON THE TOPIC OF SMUGGLING

• Camille Gendrot and Deanna Dadusc (12.07.2023): "Criminalising the Facilitation of Freedom of Movement: Introduction", in Border Criminologies (Oxford University).
• Migreurop (15.07.2023): Preventing migration: deterrence and repression.
• PICUM (18.07.2022): "Migrant smuggling: why we need a paradigm shift".
• Carlo Caprioglio, Tatiana Montella and Enrica Rigo (19.07.2022): "Solidarity With Migrants is not a Crime but a Necessary Political Struggle", in Border Criminologies (Oxford University).
• Gabriella Sanchez, (24.04.2020): "Deconstructing the Myth of the Migrant Smuggler".
• Laura Schack (06.07.2020): "Humanitarian Smugglers? The EU Facilitation Directive and the Criminalisation of Civil Society", in Border Criminologies, Oxford University.
• European University Institute and Gabriella Sanchez (2018) "Five misconceptions about migrant smuggling".

STUDIES

• PICUM (2024): "Cases of criminalisation of migration and solidarity in the EU in 2023".
• PICUM (2023): "More than 100 people criminalised for acting in solidarity with migrants in the EU in 2022".
• PICUM (2022): "Resilience and resistance in defiance of the criminalisation of solidarity across Europe".
• Arci Porco Rosso & borderline-europe (2024): "From Sea to Prison: Borders Without End"(1st quarterly report 2024).
• Arci Porco Rosso & borderline-europe (2024): "From Sea To Prison The Criminalisation of Boat Drivers in Italy".
• Arci Porco Rosso & borderline-europe (2023): "As Long As You Can Still Listen: The Criminalization of Migrant Boat Drivers in 2022".
• Julia Winkler and Lotta Mayr, borderline-europe (2023): "A legal vacuum - the systematic criminalisation of migrants for driving a boat or car to Greece".
• Amnesty International (2020): "Punishing compassion: solidarity on trial in Fortress Europe".