Cooperation Initiatives by EU Member States with Third Countries for the Control of Migratory Flows: The Case of the Memorandum of Understanding Between Malta and Libya

  • Lorena Calvo-Mariscal University of Cádiz, Spain
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18543/ced.2584
Keywords: externalisation, Memorandum of Understanding Malta-Libya, migration, human rights

Abstract

Following the previous informal Italy-Libya and EU-Turkey agreements, Malta concluded its own Memorandum of Understanding with Libya to establish two coordination centres in Tripoli and Malta, fully funded by Malta in May 2020. In our paper, we will frame this non-legally binding agreement within the strategy of the EU and its Member States to cooperate with Libya in the deterritorialisation of migration management to reduce the number of migrants and asylum seekers arriving at Europe’s external borders. We will analyse the legal implications, both formal and material concerns, that exist in the application of this Memorandum, starting with the informalisation of cooperation and the deterritorialisation of migration management, and its effects on human rights and the possible international responsibility that it may entail. 

Received: 31 July 2022
Accepted: 10 October 2022

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Author Biography

Lorena Calvo-Mariscal, University of Cádiz, Spain

PhD Candidate and Assistant Lecturer in Public International Law and International Relations at the University of Cádiz. She is Academic Coordinator and Research Member of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Migration and Human Rights in Europe’s External Borders, and Co-coordinator of the Jean Monnet Module Identity and European Values in the External Borders of the EU. Russia and the Neighbourhood. From the Baltic to the Mediterranean (EUBALMED) both directed by Dr Alejandro del Valle Gálvez. Lorena Calvo is also a Research Member of the Research Group “Centro de Estudios Internacionales y Europeos del Área del Estrecho” —SEJ 572—, of the Andalusian Research Plan. Her recent publications address the European Union's externalisation of border controls and migration and asylum management through cooperation with third States and its compliance with international obligations of Human Rights, Refugee and Asylum law.

Published
2022-12-13
How to Cite
Calvo-Mariscal, Lorena. 2022. “Cooperation Initiatives by EU Member States With Third Countries for the Control of Migratory Flows: The Case of the Memorandum of Understanding Between Malta and Libya”. Deusto Journal of European Studies, no. 06 (December), 61-86. https://doi.org/10.18543/ced.2584.
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No. 06 (2022): SPECIAL ISSUE. The EU Migration, Border Management and Asylum Reform in the Aftermath of the «Refugee Crisis»: Towards an Effective Enforcement
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