Human Rights Law and Evidence-Based Policy : The Impact of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- List of editors and contributors -- Introduction -- Aims of this collection -- The contributors -- The structure and logic of the volume -- PART I: FRA and its policy environment -- 1. The genesis of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency: why a think tank rather than a monitoring body -- Introduction -- Building a new 'Human Rights Agency' to succeed to the EU Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) -- Defining the mandate of the Agency: the initial debate -- Conclusion -- 2. A new agency, and so what? Giving flesh and blood to FRA's founding Regulation -- Introduction -- The agency and its mandate -- Bodies of the agency -- Working on the substance -- EU agencies -- Conclusion -- 3. Hand in hand for a better protection of human rights in Europe: the relationship between the Council of Europe and FRA -- Overcoming initial mistrust -- Together on the same road -- Perspectives for the future -- Conclusion -- 4. FRA's policy impact and future posture: lessons from the perspective of the European Commission -- Introduction -- The innovative nature of the FRA's work -- FRA's added value to the work of the Commission -- FRA's work - refined and improved for the future -- 5.Human rights communicators: FRA's evolving voice on research, rights and policy -- Introduction -- Communicating through an established human rights narrative -- Communicating across an enlarged Europe -- Communicating from an embedded institution -- Communicating using evidence-based research -- Communicating with changing technology -- Communicating to polarized audiences -- Communicating as 'human rights communicators' -- Conclusion -- 6. Exploring the political role of FRA: mandate, resources and opportunities -- Introduction -- Mandate -- Resources.

Opportunities -- Concluding remarks -- PART II: Researching applied rights -- 7. FRA as a meeting place of law and social sciences -- The origins of the philosophy of the 'law turning outwards' -- The rapprochement of disciplines and the added value of FRA -- The way a head -- 8. A reflection on the quality of FRA's research and methodology -- Types of FRA research -- The challenge of collecting and analyzing data where statistical standards are lacking -- Quality of research -- FRA challenges in research methodology -- Conclusions -- 9. Equality and inclusion: designing research to reconcile rights, ideas and policy practices at FRA -- Linking up fundamental rights with inclusion in the EU -- FRA's work on social inclusion -- The gap between ideals and policy practices -- The cultural dimension -- Conclusion -- 10. FRA's efforts to combat hatred, xenophobia and racism -- A robust European legal framework -- The role of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency -- Conclusion -- 11. Promoting equality: FRA's work on Roma -- Introduction -- The international processes on Roma rights -- FRA and evidence on Roma exclusion -- Discussion on the role of FRA -- 12. Violence against women: policy impact and FRA's evidencebased research -- Introduction -- The flagship: the EU-wide survey on violence against women -- FRA and EU policy on violence against women -- Applicability of the FRA's research within other human rights mechanisms -- Challenges and potential future tasks -- 13. Borders and migration control: FRA's research at protection black spots -- The FRA mandate on migration and borders -- Border control and access for third-country nationals to the EU territory -- Extraterritorial migration control and the principle of non-refoulement -- Limitations and potentials: FRA mandate and scope of EU competence.

14. Embedded EU research on refugee protection: FRA's work on asylum and irregular migration -- Introduction -- FRA and other international and regional actors in asylum -- FRA's multiple approaches to asylum research in the crisis -- Conclusion -- PART III: Overcoming constraints -- 15. FRA's response to the current human rights challenges -- The human rights environment ten years ago -- The world in turmoil? -- So far, so bad? -- FRA at the heart of a crisis-ridden Europe? -- 16. Upholding the rule of law in the EU: what role for FRA? -- The rule of law as a foundational and common value -- The rule of law in the FRA's mandate -- The marginal involvement of the FRA in the EU's rule of law mechanisms -- A new role for the FRA -- Concluding remarks -- 17. Concluding reflections on human rights law and evidence-based policy -- FRA's mandate -- Institutional embeddedness -- FRA's technocratic approach -- The research agenda -- Regionalism and diversity -- Conclusion -- Index.

The EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) was established to provide evidence-based policy advice to EU institutions and Member States. The contributors to this volume critically examine the experience of the Agency in its first decade.

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