Practices of immigration detention in Europe are largely resistant to conventional forms of legal correction. By rethinking the notion of territorial sovereignty in modern constitutionalism, this book puts forward a solution to the problem of legally permissive immigration detention.

Galina Cornelisse, Ph.D. (2007) in Law, European University Institute, is Lecturer in Constitutional Law at Utrecht University. She has published on immigration detention in the European Journal of Migration and Law and a number of other journals and edited books.