16 januari 2023
NPO Radio 1 Pointer – interview op website NPO
Vluchtelingen die naar Nederland komen, moeten steeds langer wachten op een verblijfsvergunning. Staatssecretaris Eric van der Burg zegt dat dat niet anders kan. Er komen nou eenmaal te veel vluchtelingen naar Nederland, de instanties kunnen het werk niet aan. In de tussentijd staat het leven van de vluchteling stil.
26 september 2022
NRC Opinie – tekst op website NRC
Asielopvang Door het recht op gezinshereniging ingewikkeld te maken ondermijnt Nederland het Europees recht, schrijft Martijn Stronks. Asielgezinnen worden onnodig lang van elkaar gescheiden.
19 september 2022
De Groene Amsterdammer – tekst op de website van De Groene
De asielzoeker tijdens de aanmeldprocedure oneindig lang laten wachten is een belangrijk instrument geworden om hem te ontmoedigen. Maar dit kost de asielzoeker levenstijd. En levenstijd is ook een mensenrecht.
24 maart 2022
Samen met Galina Cornelisse, De Groene Amsterdammer – tekst op de website De Groene
17 december 2021
Time is one of the most important means for the exercise of power. In Migration Law, it is used for disciplining and controlling the presence of migrants within a certain territory through the intricate interplay of two overlapping but contradicting understandings of time – human and clock time. This book explores both the success and limitations of the usage of time for the governance of migration. The virtues of legal time can be seen at work in several temporal differentiations in migration law: differentiation based on temporality, deadlines, qualification of time and procedural differentiation. Martjin Stronks contests that, hidden in the usage of legal time in Migration Law, there is an argument for the inclusion of migrants on the basis of their right to human time. This assertion is based in the finite, irreversible and unstoppable character of human time.
20 september 2021
NRC Recht en Onrecht – tekst op website NRC
Nederland wees jarenlang asielaanvragen af die keer op keer werden ingediend. Dat mocht niet, zo blijkt uit een uitspraak van het Europese Hof van Justitie. Moet alles nu over? Migratierecht-expert Martijn Stronks over de gevolgen, in de Verblijfscolumn
25 juni 2021
NRC Recht en Onrecht – tekst op website NRC
De Moria-deal is door het kabinet controversieel verklaard – dat past bij het treuzelen in de uitvoering van het toch al karige asielbeleid. Nina Fokkink en Martijn Stronks in de Verblijfscolumn.
9 april 2021
Time and Society – tekst op website
In the period 2014–2019, the Dutch authorities governed the duration of asylum procedures in order to control the influx of asylum seekers. They prioritised and accelerated cases with poor chances of success, while they deprioritised cases with good chances of success. This resulted in long asylum procedures for asylum seekers with a likelihood of success and short asylum procedures for those with a poor chance of success. This article contends that this Dutch policy is an illustration of ‘temporal governance’: a governmental strategy to control and discipline migrants by means of time. This form of governance is based on a detailed knowledge of processes of asylum procedures, which enables qualification, categorisation and differentiation between different groups of asylum seekers. The focus of this research is on how such temporal governance functions and how it relates to law. A traditional understanding of law and sovereign power entails that law legitimates and restricts power. Strikingly, temporal governance regulating the asylum procedure seems to have a different relationship to law. This article demonstrates that legal standards, in this case the standards of European Union legislation, provide Member States a large amount of room (temporal discretion) to apply temporal governance. Moreover, only a few limited legal remedies remain available, if the duration of the asylum procedure appears unlawful. Instead of limiting temporal governance, law provides ample opportunity for the acceleration and deceleration of asylum cases in order to delay due process of asylum seekers and deter others from arriving. We cannot prove that the Dutch government aimed at deprioritising and decelerating complex asylum cases and cases with good chances of success – which would have been unlawful. However, this was the net result of their chosen policy. We illustrate that instead of a legitimation and restriction of sovereign power to govern the asylum influx by means of time, law can function as a set of tactics to pursue policy aims by employing ‘temporal governance’.
28 januari 2021
NRC Recht en Onrecht – tekst op website NRC
In het vreemdelingenrecht voert ‘hoe strikter, hoe beter’ al jaren de boventoon. Uit de Toeslagenaffaire zijn lessen te trekken. Martijn Stronks in de Verblijfscolumn.
15 juli 2020
NRC Recht en Onrecht – tekst op website NRC
Bij de IND is het onvermogen tijdig te beslissen doelbewust beleid. Universitair docent Martijn Stronks, in de Verblijfscolumn over de afgeschafte dwangsom.