For over a decade, Spanish police have prevented asylum-seekers in Ceuta and Melilla—two Spanish exclaves in Northern Africa—from moving to mainland Spain. Since 2020, similar measures have been taken in the Canary Islands. However, this practice has not taken place in a vacuum. This article shows that the Spanish authorities have long drafted and interpreted Spanish law in such a way as to create a veil of legality over these residence restrictions. Moreover, they have ignored attempts by the courts to uphold the freedom of asylum-seekers to choose their place of residence within the borders of the State. The government and the police have thus exercised a kind of “diluted” legal social control, in which legal certainty and human rights safeguards are out of the picture. This article analyzes the issue from different perspectives, using social control theories, classical legal doctrinal analysis, and comparisons with criminal law.

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让我动起来：休达、梅利利亚和加那利群岛寻求庇护者居住限制的法律分析

十多年来，西班牙警方一直阻止休达和梅利利亚（西班牙在北非的两个飞地）的寻求庇护者移居西班牙大陆。自2020年以来，加那利群岛也采取了类似措施。然而，这种做法并不是在真空中进行的。本文表明，西班牙当局长期以来一直在起草和解释西班牙法律，为这些居住限制蒙上合法的面纱。此外，他们无视法院维护寻求庇护者在国家境内选择居住地的自由的努力。因此，政府和警方实行了一种“稀释的”法律社会控制，法律确定性和人权保障被排除在外。本文运用社会控制理论、经典法律理论分析以及与刑法的比较，从不同角度分析了这一问题。