Cathryn Costello contributes to the immigration detention provision of the Global Compact for Migration
Cathryn Costello, Professor of Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School and Co-Director of the Centre for Fundamental Rights, contributed to a major conference on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in Geneva organised by Professor Vincent Chetail (Graduate Institute). The event on 24 and 25 November brought together leading legal scholars to examine the instrument in context. Together with Dr Yulia Ioffe (UCL), Costello presented on the Compact’s provision on immigration detention (Objective 13), which commits states and the international community to ‘Use migration detention only as a measure of last resort and work towards alternatives.’
The conference contributions will be published by Oxford University Press as a legal commentary of the Global Compact in its series Oxford Commentaries on International Law.
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Natalie Welfens contributes to policy report on resettlement
RefMig postdoctoral researcher, Natalie Welfens, has contributed to the policy report “Towards a Global Resettlement Alliance”, recently published by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. The report includes an overview of codified rights, resettlement and safe pathways, analyses the main political claims about resettlement, and proposes a plan to revive resettlement and humanitarian admission by 2024, based on six country reports. Natalie contributed to the infographic on “Rights, Resettlement and Complementary Pathways” and the short analysis “Debating Resettlement”, which provides a guide through political claims about resettlement and complementary pathways. You can find the complete study here.
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Presentation at the University of Warsaw
On February 22nd, at 4 pm (CET) RefMig postdoctoral researcher, Natalie Welfens, will give a talk entitled 'Promising Victimhood’ Paradoxical Selection Criteria in Refugee Resettlement’ at the University of Warsaw. The event will take place online on Zoom.
You can join via this link.
The talk is part of the Interdisciplinary Seminar in Empirical Social Inquiry (ISESS) series. You can find the abstract and more information on the seminar series on the ISESS website.
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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.
Download the call for papers.
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
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Natalie Welfens will present her article at the CEPS-ASILE webinar on 23rd November
On 23 November, Natalie Welfens will speak at the CEPS-ASILE webinar on 'Resettlement, Complementary Pathways and the Global Compact on Refugees', which launches the Special Issue of Frontiers in Human Dynamics ‘Managing Forced Displacement: Refugee Resettlement and Complementary Pathways’. Natalie will present her article 'The Politics of Vulnerability in Refugee Admissions Under the EU-Turkey Statement', which she co-authored with Yasemin Bekyol for the special issue.
Please register here
Link to article (open access)
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