Summary / Resumé
Markus Babo: German Immigration Law in European Context. Current situa tion and socio-ethically relevant problems
The European Union offers its citizens an area of freedom, security and justice, while third country nationals both are subjected to a set of restrictions and stand under general suspicion, if they even succeed in entering this privileged area. The right to asylum has been precariously limited, the right to family reunifi cation has been restricted and immigration for economic reasons has been limited to highly-qualifi ed employees and fi nancially strong investors who, however, fi nd little attractive conditions of admission. Such a migration law does not cope either with the humans concerned or with the responsibilities in relation to other states or with the own demographic development of the European Union.