Dear colleagues,
I’m writing on behalf of the Refugee Law Initiative at the University of London, in relation to the final two presentations on our 7th Annual International Refugee Law Seminar Series. These next two seminars continue to address the series’ broad theme of ‘Protection in the context of large-scale movements of refugees and migrants’ from a range of different perspectives.
These are free public events, and you can book your place by registering through the Eventbrite links below.
9 February 2017, 6.00pm | Council Chamber (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies)
The end of the deterrence paradigm? Future directions for global refugee policy
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, research director (Raoul Wallenberg Institute)
Gammeltoft-Hansen calls for a paradigm change in our approach to global refugee policy. “Since the 1990s, the primary, some would say the only, response of European and other wealthy states to refugees has been to build taller walls or strike more deals with other countries to contain refugees where they are”. He argues that there is growing evidence that these deterrence policies are not sustainable. “The deterrence paradigm has produced a garbled refugee regime, leaving the majority of the world’s refugees in permanent limbo, dependent on aid, feeding a growing transnational human smuggling industry and forcing more and more refugees to risk their lives at Europe’s borders in order to secure a right to a future”.
This seminar is a unique opportunity to hear Gammeltoft-Hansen discuss these issues in more detail, outlining the implications of pursuing and maintaining a deterrence paradigm and suggesting possibilities for a reimagined future for global refugee policy.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-end-of-the-deterrence-paradigm-future-directions-for-global-refugee-policy-tickets-28524726224
2 March 2017, 6.00pm | Council Chamber (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies)
EU Law and the politics of ‘mass influx’
Cathryn Costello, Refugee Studies Centre (University of Oxford)
The Common European Asylum System is strongly focused on the individual asylum-seeker, and the coercive regulation of her predicament and processing. In contrast, international refugee policy has long been engaged with the concept of ‘mass influx’, reflecting the realities of flight, in particular from conflict. Several EXCOM Conclusions recommend practices to be adopted in such instances. Aside from the EU’s Temporary Protection Directive, the concept of ‘mass influx’ and the practices surrounding it have little traction in EU law and policy. This talk will contextualise and problematize the concept of ‘mass influx’, and suggest that notwithstanding its many shortcomings, global refugee policy sets out important standards that are lacking in EU law.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eu-law-and-the-politics-of-mass-influx-tickets-28524762332
We very much hope you can attend the seminars and look forward to seeing you soon.
Best wishes,
Susan Reardon-Smith
Academic Support Officer
Refugee Law Initiative, Human Rights Consortium
School of Advanced Study | University of London | Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, UK
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