McMahon Aoife. The Role of the State in Migration Control: The Legitimacy Gap and Moves Towards a Regional Model

Brill, 2016. — 320 p. — (Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy in Europe).Questioning the seemingly ossified premise that states have an absolute discretion to control migration, this research submits that measures of migration control must be justified on a rational-legal basis and offers a regional model as the most sustainable long-term option.