Rethinking Rightlessness: The "Right to Have Rights" and the EU-Turkey Statement

4.2.5.Access Denied: The Instruments of Externalization

Since the early 1990s, a great number of policy documents and the EU acquis on asylum have manifested a plethora of measures that are implemented by the EU and Member States at different levels. Together with the developments in the EU asylum policy, the instruments of externalization have been enhanced. Interception of migrant vessels on the high seas, “push-back”(9)…