Serge SLAMA - Immigration and Civil Liberties

Pouvoirs n°130 - L’état des libertés - septembre 2009 - p.31-47

The actions of the immigration police unavoidably collides with civil liberties, in particular when it focuses on the selection of immigration flows and the repression of illegal immigration. Accordingly, greater means and margins of manoeuvre are given to the administration and the police, with negative consequences for the individual rights of foreigners, of their kin and of the people who help them.

But looking at the last fifteen years in retrospect, one is struck by the opposition between some remarkable progress made in the granting of collective rights and liberties to foreigners on the one hand and, on the other, a decline of individual liberties which are being crushed by the various selective and repressive policies.

Résumé

Référence électonique : Serge SLAMA, "Immigration and Civil Liberties", Pouvoirs, revue française d’études constitutionnelles et politiques, n°130, 2009, p.31-47. Consulté le 01-06-2012. URL : http://www.revue-pouvoirs.fr/Immigration-and-Civil-Liberties.html