Call for papers: Decolonising global migration law
The Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School, the European University Institute and the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of Witwatersrand invite abstract submissions on post-/decolonial critiques of global migration law.
The workshop, which will take place on 10 June 2022, is open to both established and early-career scholars and practitioners, including advanced PhD students. We welcome submissions from legal scholars and those studying law from other disciplinary vantage points, including law and development; legal history; and the sociology and politics (political philosophy, political science and IR) of global migration law. We welcome in particular papers that examine underexplored legal regimes and avoid Eurocentrism.
Interested participants should provide an abstract in Word format of no more than 500 words. Together with their abstracts, applicants should provide the following information: name, affiliation, the title of the proposed paper and an email address. To submit an abstract please write to fundamentalrights@hertie-school.org by 15 February 2022 with the heading ‘Submission Decolonising Migration Workshop’.
Organising Committee and Commentators
Prof. Tendayi Achiume, UCLA Law School and UN Special Rapporteur on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
Prof. Diego Acosta, University of Bristol
Prof. Tobias Berger, Freie Universität Berlin
Prof. Cathryn Costello, Hertie School Centre for Fundamental Rights and Oxford Refugee Studies Centre
Dr. Nadine El-Enany, Centre for Research on Race and Law, Birkbeck College University of London
Prof. Neha Jain, European University Institute
Prof. Loren Landau, Oxford University and African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of Witwatersrand
Prof. Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Temple University
Prof. Mohammad (Shahab) Shahabuddin, University of Birmingham
Vera Wriedt, PhD researcher, Hertie School, Centre for Fundamental Rights