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‘Destination: Europe’ | Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series, Hilary term 2016
http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/hilary-2016
In the absence of safe and legal routes to claim asylum, refugees currently make their own way to Europe, risking their lives in the process. They face many European crises: humanitarian ones at their places of arrival and border crossings; legal ones as some states flout their international and EU obligations, and security ones as rational fears become unduly associated with refugees. There are, of course, many Europes: the EU (with its elaborate Common European Asylum System); the wider Europe of the Council of Europe and pan-European human rights protection, encompassing Turkey; and the Europe of the Mediterranean, Mare Nostrum. Faced with the arrival of refugees in large numbers, the reactions and responsibilities of these various Europes will be considered. Reactions range from small-scale offers of relocation and resettlement; to military responses to human smuggling in Libya; to border closures of the Balkans and Central and Eastern Europe; and moves to accommodate large new refugee populations in Germany, Sweden and the other main destination states. The series will examine the implications for European integration, European values and the global refugee protection regime, taking a long and broad view. Legal, historical and political perspectives will be explored.
This seminar series complements the latest issue of Forced Migration Review, which is also titled 'Destination: Europe': http://www.fmreview.org/destination-europe
Seminars will be held from 5–6.30pm on Wednesdays, in Seminar Room 3, Oxford Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB.
20 January
Destination Europe: states, borders and refugees
Cathryn Costello, Andrew W Mellon Associate Professor of International Human Rights and Refugee Law, Refugee Studies Centre
27 January
Can Europe build a unified response to the asylum crisis?
Pascal Brice, Director General, French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons
3 February
Moving forward on asylum in the EU: from crisis to responsibility
Madeline Garlick, Chief, Protection Policy and Legal Advice Section, Division of International Protection, UNHCR
10 February
Resettlement to the UK: Between Sovereigns revisited
Emma Haddad, former Director, Refugee Resettlement Operations, UK Home Office
17 February
Fencing off reality: Hungary's reactions to the arrival of refugees and their interpretation in a European legal, political and moral context
Boldizsár Nagy, Associate Professor of Public International Law, Eötvös Loránd University and Central European University
24 February
tbd
2 March
Protracted displacement and the challenges of solidarity
Kelly Staples, Lecturer in International Politics, University of Leicester
9 March
Wasted lives: borders and the right to life of people crossing them
Thomas Spijkerboer, Professor of Migration Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Further details online at: http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events
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