Localizing Fundamental Rights in the European Union: What is the Role of Local and Regional Authorities, and How to Strengthen It?

Marx, Axel; Hachez, Nicolas; Meuwissen, Katrien; Schmitt, Pierre; Jaraczewski, Jakub; Lewis, Tamara; Raube, Kolja; Roszak, Joanna; Starl, Klaus; Taramundi, Dolores Morondo; Tuovinen, Anna-Kaisa; Weatherburn, Amy

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“…L'homogénéité n'exclut pas des différences d'interprétation d'un droit entre les organes de l'État. Même dans un ordre juridique dans lequel existe une juridiction telle que le Bundesverfassungsgericht, arbitre ultime de la majorité des conflits relatifs aux droits fondamentaux, des divergences peuvent exister 58 . Ainsi que l'a relevé la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme, des divergences concernant l'interprétation d'un droit fondamental sont inhérentes à tout système judiciaire en raison de la pluralité des acteurs juridiques 59 .…”

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Divergences d’interprétation et équivalence des protections des droits fondamentaux dans l’Union européenne

Auriel¹

2022

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Divergences d’interprétation et équivalence des protections des droits fondamentaux dans l’Union européenne

Auriel¹

2022

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“…Where some local governments are proactive with regard to refugee policy, regardless of 74 United Nations Human Rights Council Advisory Committee Report, The Role of Local Authorities in the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights, A/HRC/30/49, para 1. 75 Sassen 2001;De Feyter et al 2011;Barber 2014;Marx et al 2015;Oomen et al 2016;Zapata-Barrero et al 2017;Bendel et al 2019;Hoffman 2019;. 76 Aust 2015Nijman 2016;Oomen and Baumgärtel 2018.…”

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How Human Rights Cross-Pollinate and Take Root: Local Governments and Refugees in Turkey

Durmuş

2021

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The human rights regime—as law, institutions and practice—has been facing criticism for decades regarding its effectiveness, particularly in terms of unsatisfactory overall implementation and the failure to protect the most vulnerable who do not enjoy the protection of their States: refugees. Turkey is the country hosting the largest refugee population, with around four million at the end of May 2020 (https://www.unhcr.org/tr/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2020/06/UNHCR-Turkey-Operational-Update-May-2020.pdf). As an administratively centralised country, Turkey’s migration policy is implemented by central government agencies, but this has not proved sufficient to guarantee the human rights of refugees on the ground. Meanwhile, in connection with urbanisation, decentralisation and globalisation, local governments around the world are receiving increasing attention from migration studies, political science, law, sociology and anthropology. In human rights scholarship, the localisation of human rights and the potential role of local governments have been presented as ways to counter the shortcomings in the effectiveness of the human rights regime and discourse. While local governments may have much untapped potential, a thorough analysis of the inequalities between local governments in terms of access to resources and opportunities is essential. The Turkish local governments which form the basis of this research, operate in a context of legal ambiguity concerning their competences and obligations in the area of migration. They also have to deal with large differences when it comes to resources and workload. In practice, therefore, there is extreme divergence amongst municipalities in the extent to which they engage with refugee policies. This chapter seeks to answer the question why and how certain local governments in Turkey come to proactively engage in policy-making that improves the realisation of refugees’ rights. Exploratory grounded field research among Turkish local governments reveals four main factors that enable and facilitate the engagement of local governments in refugee policies: (1) the capacity of and institutionalisation in local governments; (2) the dissemination of practices and norms surrounding good local migration and rights-based governance through networks; (3) the availability of cooperation and coordination with other actors in the field, and (4) political will. Collectively, these factors illustrate how a new norm—the norm that local governments can and ought to engage in policy-making improving the rights of refugees—is cross-pollinating and taking root among Turkish local governments. This understanding will provide valuable insights into how norms are developed, travel and are institutionalised within social and institutional networks, and how differences in access, capacity, political and cooperative opportunities may facilitate and obscure the path to policies improving human rights on the ground.

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“…14 International/global, supranational/regional, national and sub-state/local. See, for example (Marx et al, 2015). 15 The first decade of this century has produced vast literature around the 'inflation' of human rights, and the need to limit the rhetoric of their language and 'streamline' protection only for those rights that are most necessary in the defence of human dignity.…”

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Escaping the Ivory Tower: Legal Research on Human Rights from a Critical Perspective

Taramundi

2019

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This article aims to address some of the criticisms that have been made of human rights research, especially of human rights research conducted by legal scholars. It argues that a conscious and critical approach to the limitations of the 'ivory tower' of legal scholarship on rights is becoming increasingly necessary in a research context marked by the convergence of multiple disciplines, the ever-growing contestation of human rights, and the complexity of the international regime for the protection of human rights. This article outlines three strategies that could be useful for legal scholars to escape from the ivory tower and make a significant contribution to multidisciplinary human rights studies.

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Localizing Fundamental Rights in the European Union: What is the Role of Local and Regional Authorities, and How to Strengthen It?

Cited by 8 publications

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Divergences d’interprétation et équivalence des protections des droits fondamentaux dans l’Union européenne

Divergences d’interprétation et équivalence des protections des droits fondamentaux dans l’Union européenne

How Human Rights Cross-Pollinate and Take Root: Local Governments and Refugees in Turkey

Escaping the Ivory Tower: Legal Research on Human Rights from a Critical Perspective

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