This collection examines the evolving European Union legal-institutional and policy frameworks for governing migration, borders and asylum post-2015/16. It is the first study on why and how the 'intersectionality' across policy areas and actors affects democratic rule of law and the mobility, livelihood and human rights of refugees and immigrants.

Sergio Carrera is Part-Time Professor at the Migration Policy Centre (MPC) at the EUI and Senior Research Fellow and Head of Justice and Home Affairs Programme in CEPS. He is also Visiting Professor at the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) at Sciences Po (France).Carrera is also Associate Professor/Senior Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law in Maastricht University (The Netherlands); and Honorary Industry Professor at the School of Law in Queen Mary University of London (UK).

Leonhard den Hertog is Policy Advisor to MEP Sophie in 't Veld (ALDE/D66), working on Rule of Law, fundamental rights, asylum and migration.

Marion Panizzon is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Public Law, University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) 'On the Move'.

Dora Kostakopoulou is Professor of EU Law, European Integration and Public Policy at Warwick University and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Fundamental Rights Agency.