%0 Journal Article 
%A Iglesias Sánchez, Sara
%T The limits of EU border and immigration policy in Gibraltar: effects on the legal situation of Moroccan workers
%D 2014
%@ 2341-0868
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10498/19527
%X In the European Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ) is affected by
multiple asymmetries arising from the need for flexibility in the integration strategy with respect
to those matters connected with the hard core of State sovereignty. This “variable geometry” has
a signifcant impact on the development of a coherent status for third country nationals through a
genuine Common Immigration Policy. The particular situation of Gibraltar is very illustrative in
this respect, because here, the specifcities of its status both in relation to EU law and international
law converge with a differentiated approach to the Schengen acquis, and with an opt-out to the
Common Migration Policy.
This article discusses some of the disruptions caused by variable integration in the AFSJ, in
light of the particular example of the situation of Moroccan workers in Gibraltar, in relation to which
this amalgam of legal specifcities has resulted in a situation of reduced mobility and isolation from
some positive legal developments in the feld of the Common Migration Policy.


%K Area of freedom
%K security and justice (AFSJ)
%K Gibraltar
%K Moroccan workers
%K migrant workers
%K European migration policy
%K opt-out
%K Schengen acquis
%K Espacio de libertad
%K Seguridad y Justicia (ELSJ)
%K Gibraltar
%K trabajadores migrantes
%K trabajadores marroquíes
%K política de inmigración de la Unión Europea
%K opt-out
%K acervo Schengen
%K Espace de liberté
%K de sécurité et de justice (ELSJ)
%K Gibraltar
%K travailleurs migrants
%K travailleurs marocains
%K politique d’immigration de l’Union eurpéenne
%K acquis de Schengen
%~ Universidad de Cádiz