Anna Börger
Anna Börger is a researcher in international human rights and migration law. Her PhD focusses on the responsibility of states for proxy migration control under the European Convention on Human Rights. She holds a Bachelor of Law (L.L.B.) from University College London and completed her German First State Exam in 2017.
She was involved in building up the Student Charity “Refugee Law Clinic Cologne” at the University of Cologne and headed the organisation as First Chairwoman from 2017 until 2019.
She is currently training to be a lawyer.
Areas of Research
- International human rights law
- Migration law
- European human rights law
- State responsibility
Current research project
Currently, Anna is writing her doctoral dissertation on the accountability of states under their obligations under international and human rights law, particularly under the European Convention on Human Rights, when they outsource migration control to third countries.
Expose
The thesis focusses on the question whether European states are responsible under international human rights law, in particular under European Convention on Human Rights, when they outsource their migration control to third states. During the last 20 years, states from the Global North such as the EU member states but also Australia and the USA have resorted to supporting transit states or states or origin in their migration controls. The thesis looks at the legal implications of these policies. The concepts of state responsibility and jurisdiction under the ECHR are analysed, linked to each other, and put into the context of proxy migration control. The thesis also includes an analysis on the responsibility of member states when the European Union is involved. Suggestions are made how the substantive rights of the Convention can apply in this context.