The right to liberty of asylum-seekers and the European Court of Human Rights in the aftermath of the 2015 refugee crisis Ruiz Ramos, Juan Asylum detention European Court of Human Rights Right to liberty Detention conditions Margin of appreciation Immigration detention Detención de solicitantes de asilo Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos Derecho a la libertad Condiciones de detención Margen de apreciación Detención de inmigrantes The author would like to extend his gratitude to his Ph.D. supervisor Prof. Javier Roldán Barbero and to the academics in these two institutions who gave him valuable feedback. In the context of the 2015 refugee crisis, European States have pushed for tighter migration control policies by, inter alia, extending and toughening the practice of detaining asylum-seekers. The aim of this study is to assess how the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) constrains this worrisome practice. Does it grant States the same margin of appreciation as in other migration-related judgments, or does it adopt a more active role in protecting asylum-seekers’ right to liberty? To answer this question, this study analyses the case law of the ECtHR after 2015 on the subject and evaluates it in the light of the relevant international human rights treaties, European Union law and scholarly opinion. In doing so, it especially seeks to identify any changes in the Court´s case law that might indicate a reaction of the Strasbourg Court to the political tensions of the refugee crisis. Humanos (TEDH) limita esta preocupante práctica. ¿Otorga a los Estados el mismo margen de apreciación que en otras sentencias relativas a las migraciones, o adopta un papel más activo en la protección del derecho a la libertad de los solicitantes de asilo? Para responder a esta pregunta, el presente trabajo analiza la jurisprudencia del TEDH después de 2015 en esta materia y la evalúa a la luz de los tratados de derechos humanos pertinentes, el Derecho de la Unión Europea y la doctrina. En esta labor, el estudio trata especialmente de identificar cambios en la jurisprudencia del Tribunal que indiquen una reacción de Estrasburgo a las tensiones políticas derivadas de la crisis de refugiados. 2020-07-17T12:05:50Z 2020-07-17T12:05:50Z 2020-04 journal article Ramos, J. R. (2020). The right to liberty of asylum-seekers and the European Court of Human Rights in the aftermath of the 2015 refugee crisis. Revista electrónica de estudios internacionales (REEI), (39), 10. [DOI: 10.17103/reei.39.10] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/63036 10.17103/reei.39.10 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/es/ open access Atribución-CompartirIgual 3.0 España Asociación Española de Profesores de Derecho Internacional y Relaciones Internacionales (AEPDIRI)