Glossary
The EMN Glossary – as one of the key products of the EMN - improves comparability by enabling a common understanding and use of terms and definitions relating to asylum and migration. The Glossary draws on a variety of sources, but primarily on the legislation of the EU asylum and immigration acquis, and makes terms available in the majority of EU Member State languages.
The online version is regularly updated and available in various languages.
- BG: право на запазването на целостта на семейството
- CZ: právo na zachování celistvosti rodiny
- DE: Recht auf Familieneinheit / Recht auf Wahrung des Familienverbandes
- EE: õigus perekonna ühtsusele
- EN: right to family unity
- ES: derecho a la unidad de la familia
- FI: oikeus perheen yhtenäisyyteen
- GA: ceart chun aontacht teaghlaigh
- GR: δικαίωμα στην οικογενειακή ενότητα
- HU: család egységéhez való jog
- IT: diritto all’unità familiare
- LT: teisė į šeimos vientisumą
- LV: tiesības uz ģimenes vienotību
- MT: Dritt għall-għaqda / għall-unità tal-familja
- NL: recht op instandhouding van het (kern-)gezin (syn.: recht op eenheid van het gezin)
- NO: rett til familiens enhet (b) / rett til familieeining (n)
- PL: prawo do jedności rodziny
- PT: direito à unidade familiar
- RO: dreptul la unitatea familiei
- SE: rätt till familjesammanhållning
- SK: právo na jednotu rodiny
- SL: pravica do enotnosti družine
In the context of a refugee, a right provisioned in Art. 23 of Directive 2011/95/EU (Recast Qualification Directive) and in Art. 12 of Directive 2013/33/EU (Recast Reception Conditions Directive) obliging EU Member States to ensure that family unity can be maintained.
There is a distinction between the right to family unity and the right to family life. The right to family unity relates more to the purpose and procedural aspects of entry and stay for the purpose of reuniting a family, in order to meet the fundamental rights enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
- BG: право на семеен живот
- CZ: právo na rodinný život
- DE: Recht auf Familienleben
- EE: õigus pere(konna)elule
- EN: right to family life
- ES: derecho a la vida en familia
- FI: oikeus perhe-elämään
- FR: droit à la vie familiale
- GA: ceart chun saol teaghlaigh
- GR: δικαιωμα στην οικογενειακή ζωή
- HU: családi élethez való jog
- IT: diritto alla vita familiare
- LT: teisė į šeimos gyvenimą
- LV: tiesības uz ģimenes dzīvi
- MT: Dritt għal ħajja f’familja
- NL: recht op eerbiediging van familie- en gezinsleven (syn.: recht op familie- en gezinsleven)
- NO: rett til familieliv
- PL: prawo do życia rodzinnego
- PT: direito à unidade familiar
- RO: dreptul la viaţă de familie
- SE: rätt till familjeliv
- SK: právo na rodinný život
- SL: pravica do družinskega življenja
A right enshrined in Arts. 7, 9 and 33 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and Art. 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
There is a distinction between the right to family life and the right to family unity. The right to family life is a fundamental right enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. The right to family unity relates more to the purpose and procedural aspects of entry and stay for the purpose of reuniting a family.