Responding to the arrival of asylum seekers: control and protection in asylum procedures

The opening section of this paper defines the objectives of immigration control. After a brief survey of various general control objectives, the more specific objectives of control in asylum procedures will be pointed out. Against this background, the following section of the paper presents the legal norms and principles which structure and restrain states’ jurisdiction in the context of immigration control. The paper then goes on to look at recent tendencies in asylum law and policy which partly merge immigration control and asylum procedures, normally to the detriment of the latter.