International Migration Law

IML

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 Objectives

• Overview of international public law

• Introduction to International Migration Law (IML)
• Branches of International Public Law, particularly those
applicable to IML
• Sources and components of IML
• Instruments of IML

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 International Law

• Distinction between public and private

international law
• Governs legal relations between States-
Public International Law
• Governs legal relations between other
subjects of international law- Private
International Law

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 Sources of International law

• Treaties
• International Customary Law
• Judicial Decisions and Doctrine
• General Principles of Law

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 Branches of International
Law

• Air Law and Space Law

• Law of the Sea
• International Environmental Law
• International Criminal Law
• The Law of Armed Conflict (Humanitarian Law)
• Refugee Law
• Human Rights Law
• International Trade Law
• Intellectual Property Law
• Others …

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International Migration Law

WHAT IS IT?

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 What is International
Migration Law?

• Instruments of international law applicable to migration (IOM

Glossary)
• No «worldwide legislature»
• Has developed over time
• Compiled from branches of international law & applied to
migration issues
• Different instruments apply depending upon context
• Distinction between nationals and aliens

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 Components of IML

• Rights and • Competences and

obligations of responsibilities of
States
persons involved in
migration

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 Main Sources of
International Migration Law

• Human Rights Law

• International Labour Law
• Humanitarian Law
• Refugee Law
• Nationality Law
• Law of the Sea
• Criminal Law

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 Instruments of International
Migration Law

Human Rights Criminal Law International Humanitarian

 UDHR labour law Law
 Convention
 ICCPR Against  ILO Instruments  Geneva
 ICESCR Translational  ICRMW Conventions
 CRC Crime
 ICERD
 Palermo
 CEDAW Protocols
 CAT
 ICRMW
 CRPD
 CPPED

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 Instruments of International
Migration Law

Refugee Law Nationality Law Law of the Sea

 1951  Convention on  Convention on

Convention the Reduction of the Law of the
relating to the Statelessness Sea
status of  Convention  International
refugees relating to the Convention for
 1967 Protocol Status of the Safety of Life
Stateless at Sea
Persons

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