Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen

PhD, International Law; MSc, Refugee Studies; MA, Honours Political Science
Senior Researcher, research unit on Migration
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Personal CV

Expertise

My research focuses on international refugee law, EU asylum and immigration policy and sovereignty. I am particularly interested in the externalisation and privatisation of migration control, and the relationship between international law, EU and Danish migration policy. In addition I work on more theoretical issues related to sovereignty and the relationship between law and politics.

Selected projects and programmes

Access to asylum and the globalization of migration control: extraterritorial obligations under international refugee law

The foreign policy dimension of EU asylum and migration policy

The migration industry and markets for migration management

Law and policy in a globalized world

Selected publications

Access to Asylum: International refugee law and the globalization of migration control, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).

Growing Barriers: Extraterritorial Obligations under International Refugee Law, in Mark Gibney and Sigrun Skogly (eds.), Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.

The Outsourcing of Asylum in the EU and the Advent of ‘Protection Lite’. In Luiza Bialasiewicz (ed.) Europe in the World: EU Geopolitics and the Transformation of European Space, Ashgate, 2010 (forthcoming). Alternative version published as DIIS Working Paper 2/2007, Copenhagen, 2007.

Sovereignty Games: The Instrumentalization of State Sovereignty in Europe and Beyond, Palgrave, 2008 (ed., with Rebecca Adler-Nissen). Chapter published as DIIS working paper.

The Right to Seek Revisited: On the UN Human Rights Declaration Article 14 and Access to Asylum Procedures in the EU. European Journal of Migration and Law, 10 (4):439-459, 2008 (with Hans Gammeltoft-Hansen).

Selected commissioned work

De Danske Forbehold over for den Europæiske Union: Udviklingen siden 2000 [The Danish Opt Outs from the European Union: developments since 2000], for the Danish Parliament 2008. Read more here.

Selected research related activities

External lecturer in international refugee law, University of Copenhagen.

Associated expert, European Council for Refugees and Exiles (ECRE).

Associated research fellow, Centre for European Politics, University of Copenhagen.

Ongoing consultancies and advisory functions for a number of international organisations, governmental institutions and European NGOs.

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