Family Reunification and Conditions Placed on Family Members: Dismantling a Fundamental Human Right

European Journal of Migration and Law 4: 271–290, 2002. © 2002 Kluwer Law International. Printed in the Netherlands. 271 Family ReuniŽ cation and Conditions Placed on Family Members: Dismantling a Fundamental Human Right ¤ RYSZARD CHOLEWINSKI ¤¤ 1. Introduction The disjunction between the international commitments states enter into to safeguard human rights and compliance with such rights is most vivid when fundamental human rights con ict with state interests in the Ž eld of immigration. This tension is particularly acute in the context of family reuniŽ cation: [F]amily reuniŽ cation [can] be seen, on the one hand, as a humanitarian