As part of the Fellowship Dimensions of Europe (Cluster "Migration, borders and mobilities in, around, and across Europe"), Gustavo de la Orden Bosch analyses the recent transformations of the European Union’s borders. Examining the current proposals for the reform of border, migration and asylum systems, his research seeks to identify the legal and political dimension of the criminalisation of migration. Through a combined perspective of international law, EU law and criminology, it focuses on the impact of the criminalisation of irregular migration on the right to seek asylum at the -external and internal- borders of the European Union. The ultimate aim is to gain a better understanding of how European borders function and how they (de)construct and modify the meanings of citizenship and social membership in Europe.
Gustavo de la Orden Bosch is a researcher at the Pedro Arrupe Human Rights Institute of the University of Deusto.