Building Walls at Sea: An Assessment of the Legality of the Greek Floating Barrier

Danae-Fani Georgoula

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Building Walls at Sea: An Assessment of the Legality of the Greek Floating Barrier

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In January 2020, against the backdrop of the Mediterranean refugee crisis, Greece announced its intention to install a floating barrier in the maritime passage between Turkey and Lesvos as a measure to deter the flow of asylum seekers arriving by sea. This article analyses the implications and assesses the legality of installing a floating barrier in light of the law of the sea, human rights law, and refugee law.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	54-81
Number of pages	28
Journal	International Journal of Refugee Law
Volume	34
Issue number	1
Early online date	9 Jul 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eeac021
Publication status	Published - 2022

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This research was funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) Project, 'Safeguarding the Effectiveness of the Judiciary's Role in the Legal Regime for the Oceans: Charting a Course between Judicial Restraint and Judicial Activism'. The author thanks Professor Alex Oude Elferink, Professor Seline Trevisanut, and the anonymous IJRL reviewers for their valuable comments. Any errors remain the author's own.

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