Last stop expulsion - The minority question and forced migration in East-Central Europe: 1918-49

This article deals with the European minorities in the period between the two world wars and with their final expulsion from nation-states at the end of World War II. First, the tensions which arose between the organised minorities and the successor states of the Habsburg Monarchy are accounted for primarily by the argument that the various minorities located within the successor states had already undergone a comprehensive processes of nationalisation within the Habsburg Empire. Therefore they were able to resist assimilation by the political elites of the new titular nations (Czechs, Poles, Rumanians, Serbs). A second topic is that of the use made of the minorities issue by Adolf Hitler to help achieve his expansionist aims. The minorities issue was central to the international destabilisation of interwar Europe. Finally, the mass expulsion of minorities (above all, Germans) after the end of the war is explained by strategic considerations on the part of the Allied powers as well as involving the nation-state regimes. It is argued, against a commonly held view, that German atrocities during the period of occupation had little to do with the decision to expel most ethnic Germans from their territories of settlement in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. The article shows that it is necessary to treat national minorities in the first half of the twentieth century as a single phenomenon which shares similar features across the various nation-states of East-Central Europe.

Using Dynamic Analysis for API Migration

When changing the API of a framework, we need to migrate its clients. This is best done automatically. In this paper, we focus on API migration where the mechanism for inversion of control changes. We propose to use dynamic analysis for such API migration since structural refactorings alone are often not sufficient. We consider JExample as a case-study. JExample extends JUnit with first-class dependencies and fixture injection. We investigate how dynamically collected information about test coverage and about instances under test can be used to detect dependency injection candidates.

Jahrbuch für Migrationsrecht 2012/2013. Annuaire du droit de la migration 2012/2013

Das vorliegende «Jahrbuch für Migrationsrecht» befasst sich mit dem Thema «Ehe und Familie im Migrationsrecht» und geht der Frage nach, welche Folgen das Bestehen von Familien, in denen mindestens eine Person eine ausländische Staatsangehörigkeit hat, für das Ausländerrecht, für das Internationale Privatrecht (vor allem in Hinblick auf das islamische Recht) und das Staatsangehörigkeitsrecht hat. Ein weiterer Beitrag befasst sich mit den Auswirkungen der Dublin-III-Verordnung auf das schweizerische Asylverfahren. Der dokumentarische Teil des Jahrbuchs beschlägt den Zeitraum des letzten Jahres von Mitte 2012 bis Mitte 2013 und berichtet umfassend über die Praxis des Bundesgerichts, des Bundesverwaltungsgerichts, zum ersten Mal auch der kantonalen Gerichte, des Europäischen Gerichtshofes für Menschenrechte und anderer Menschenrechtsorgane mit Bedeutung für das Migrationsrecht (Ausländerrecht, Asylrecht und Bürgerrecht) und des Gerichtshofes der Europäischen Union. Nachgezeichnet wird die Rechtsentwicklung in der Schweiz auf Bundes- und Kantonsebene, in der EU und in weiteren internationalen Gremien, einschliesslich der Menschenrechtsorgane der UNO. Der Band enthält eine Bibliografie des schweizerischen Migrationsrechts. Le présent « Annuaire du droit de la migration » est consacré au thème du mariage et de la famille dans le droit des migrations. Il traite ainsi des conséquences pour le droit des étrangers, le droit international privé (en particulier par rapport au droit islamique) et le droit de la nationalité de l’augmentation du nombre de familles composées d’au moins un ressortissant étranger. Les répercussions du règlement Dublin III sur la procédure d’asile suisse sont par ailleurs également présentées. Cet Annuaire couvre ensuite la période allant du milieu de l’année 2012 au milieu de l’année 2013 et rapporte de manière détaillée l’évolution de la jurisprudence se rapportant au droit des migrations (droit des étrangers, droit de l’asile et droit de la nationalité) du Tribunal fédéral, du Tribunal administratif fédéral, des tribunaux cantonaux – pour la première fois –, de la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme et d’autres organes de défense de ces droits ainsi que de la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne. Les développements juridiques survenus en Suisse (tant au niveau cantonal que fédéral), au sein de l’Union européenne, ainsi que dans d’autres instances internationales, y compris les organes de défense des droits de l’homme de l’ONU, sont également exposés dans cet ouvrage. L’Annuaire contient enfin une bibliographie du droit suisse de la migration.

Labour Migration, Trade and Investment: From Fragmentation to Coherence

Trade, investment and migration are strongly intertwined, being three key factors in international production. Yet, law and regulation of the three has remained highly fragmented. Trade is regulated by the WTO on the multilateral level, and through preferential trade agreements on the regional and bilateral levels – it is fragmented and complex in its own right. Investment, on the other hand, is mainly regulated through bilateral investment treaties with no strong links to the regulation of trade or migration. And, finally, migration is regulated by a web of different international, regional and bilateral agreements which focus on a variety of different aspects of migration ranging from humanitarian to economic. The problems of institutional fragmentation in international law are well known. There is no organizational forum for coherent strategy-making on the multilateral level covering all three areas. Normative regulations may thus contradict each other. Trade regulation may bring about liberalization of access for service providers, but eventually faces problems in recruiting the best people from abroad. Investors may withdraw investment without being held liable for disruptions to labour and to the livelihood and infrastructure of towns and communities affected by disinvestment. Finally, migration policies do not seem to have a significant impact as long as trade policies and investment policies are not working in a way that is conducive to reducing migration pressure, as trade and investment are simply more powerful on the regulatory level than migration. This chapter addresses the question as to how fragmentation of the three fields could be reme-died and greater coherence between these three areas of factor allocation in international economic relations and law could be achieved. It shows that migration regulation on the international level is lagging behind that on trade and investment. Stronger coordination and consideration of migration in trade and investment policy, and stronger international cooperation in migration, will provide the foundations for a coherent international architecture in the field.