With the development towards comprehensive and more sophisticated border control regimes, the problem of protection seekers’ access to EU territory has increasingly come into focus. Disorderly movement is presently the main avenue to safety in the EU, and human smugglers act as important...

During the past decade both Spain and Portugal have amended their legislation to add an inadmissibility phase to their asylum procedures. These inadmissibility proceedings follow an accelerated pace and include a broad array of grounds for rejecting applications. Asylum seekers deemed...