Developing human dignity's potential to protect migrants' human rights

开发人类尊严的潜力以保护移民的人权

• 批准号: 2595942
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2595942
• 关键词: Developing; human; dignity; potential; protect

The proposed research examines the value that human dignity contributes to migrants' human rights protection. This research is designed to be ambitious and novel by combining a critical comparative approach to study the range of international human rights law relevant to migrants, the case law of the European Court of Human Rights ('ECtHR'), the Court of Justice of the European Union ('CJEU') and the United Nations Human Rights Committee ('CCPR'), and qualitative empirical research methods.The central research question is how far can the protection offered by human dignity benefit migrants' rights protection? To tackle this, a comparative approach will be adopted to analyse the case law of the ECtHR, CJEU and CCPR. This raises a number of sub-questions. Firstly, has a codified right to human dignity in the CFREU resulted in better protection of migrants' rights by the CJEU compared to the ECtHR and CCPR? If so, what is the level of protection provided? Secondly, what can be determined about the substance of human dignity and how this is distinct from other human rights provisions such as the prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment? The need to address this question has been raised in existing literature.Finally, by examining this case law through a human dignity lens, what can be learnt about the dialogue between these courts? Specifically, in the absence of codification, does this dialogue promote a consistent construction of human dignity and a consistent standard of protection for migrants? Areas of application: To go beyond the current focus on asylum seekers and refugees, this research will identify other areas of human dignity application. Human dignity has the potential to offer more inclusive protection for migrants in two key areas in which existing human rights measures do not provide sufficient protection. Firstly, for irregular migrants resisting expulsion on medical grounds. This is particularly relevant considering the high threshold required in medical return cases. Secondly, for those resisting expulsion due to climate change impacts. Presently there is a gap in protection as the definition of a refugee does not encompass those displaced due to climate change and the applicability of the principle of non-refoulement is limited. Practical perspectives: There is a lack of understanding of human dignity by practitioners. A research sub-question is therefore what information or dignity-based legal arguments do practitioners need in order to be able to utilise human dignity more regularly and successfully? This research is methodologically novel because it combines a comparative approach with empirical research methods, an approach that has thus far been lacking in existing scholarship on migrants' human dignity. Comparative approach: This approach is appropriate because the research is concerned with international and regional human rights protections relevant to migrants in the UK: the ECHR, CFREU and ICCPR. The ICCPR and ECHR are directly applicable to the UK, as the UK is a state party to these treaties. The CFREU is included in this analysis not only because of the dialogue between the CJEU and ECtHR in their case law but also due to the contrasting codification of human dignity in the CFREU and lack of codification in the ECHR and ICCPR, which informs the research questions highlighted.Empirical research methods: A small number of interviews will be conducted to gather qualitative data. This provides a novel perspective on the research questions raised and will inform the construction of human dignity developed in this research.

拟议的研究探讨了人的尊严对保护移徙者人权的价值。这项研究的目的是雄心勃勃和新颖的，通过结合一个关键的比较方法来研究与移民有关的国际人权法的范围，欧洲人权法院（'ECtHR'）的判例法，欧洲联盟法院（'CJEU'）和联合国人权事务委员会（'CCPR'），研究的核心问题是人的尊严的保护在多大程度上有利于移民的权利保护。为解决这一问题，将采用比较方法分析欧洲人权法院、欧洲法院和公民权利和政治权利委员会的判例法。这就引出了一些小问题。 第一，与欧洲人权法院和公民权利和政治权利国际公约相比，《欧洲人权法院法》中编纂的人的尊严权是否使欧洲法院更好地保护了移民的权利？如果是，提供的保护程度如何？第二，如何确定人的尊严的实质内容，以及这与禁止不人道和有辱人格的待遇等其他人权规定有何区别？最后，通过从人的尊严的透镜审视这一判例法，可以从这些法院之间的对话中了解到什么？具体而言，在没有编纂的情况下，这种对话是否促进了对人的尊严的一贯建设和对移民的一贯保护标准？ 应用领域：为了超越目前对寻求庇护者和难民的关注，这项研究将确定人的尊严适用的其他领域。人的尊严有可能在两个关键领域为移徙者提供更具包容性的保护，在这两个领域，现有人权措施没有提供足够的保护。第一，以健康理由拒绝驱逐的非正常移徙者。考虑到医疗返回案件所需的高门槛，这一点尤其重要。第二，对于那些因气候变化影响而抵制驱逐的人。目前，在保护方面存在差距，因为难民的定义不包括因气候变化而流离失所的人，而且不推回原则的适用性有限。实践观点：从业人员缺乏对人的尊严的理解。因此，一个研究子问题是，从业者需要什么样的信息或基于尊严的法律的论据，以便能够更经常和成功地利用人的尊严？这项研究在方法上是新颖的，因为它结合了比较方法和实证研究方法，这是迄今为止关于移民人的尊严的现有学术研究所缺乏的方法。比较方法：这一方法是适当的，因为研究涉及与联合王国移民有关的国际和区域人权保护：《欧洲人权公约》、《欧洲联邦执法和执法机构联合会》和《公民权利和政治权利国际公约》。《公民权利和政治权利国际公约》和《欧洲人权公约》直接适用于联合王国，因为联合王国是这些条约的缔约国。本分析中包括欧洲人权法院和欧洲人权法院之间的对话，不仅是因为欧洲人权法院和欧洲人权法院在其判例法中的对话，而且还因为欧洲人权法院和《公民权利和政治权利国际公约》中对人的尊严的编纂与欧洲人权法院和《公民权利和政治权利国际公约》中的编纂形成鲜明对比，这为突出的研究问题提供了信息。这为所提出的研究问题提供了一个新的视角，并将为本研究中发展的人的尊严建设提供信息。