Dear all,
The event below may be of interest to some of you.
Thank you for spreading the news and indeed for coming along!
We look forward to seeing you at Queen Mary in December!
All best,
Violeta
Centre for European and International Legal Affairs (CEILA)
Voting Rights of Refugees
CEILA Book Forum with Dr Ruvi Ziegler
About the Book
Voting Rights of Refugees (Cambridge University Press, 2017) develops a novel legal argument about the voting rights of refugees recognised in the 1951 Geneva Convention. The main normative contention is that such refugees should have the right to vote in the political community where they reside, assuming that this community is a democracy and that its citizens have the right to vote. The book argues that recognised refugees are a special category of non-citizen residents: they are unable to participate in elections of their state of origin, do not enjoy its diplomatic protection and consular assistance abroad, and are unable or unwilling, owing to a well-founded fear of persecution, to return to it. Refugees deserve to have a place in the world, in the Arendtian sense, where their opinions are significant and their actions are effective. Their state of asylum is the only community in which there is any prospect of political participation on their part.
A drinks reception will follow this event for those in attendance.
Speaker
Dr Ruvi Ziegler (Reading)
Commentators
• Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax (QMUL) (Chair/convener)
• Dr Maria-Teresa Gil-Bazo (Newcastle)
• Prof Eric Heinze (QMUL)
• Prof David Owen (Southampton)
Please, register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ceila-book-forum-voting-rights-of-refugees-dr-ruvi-ziegler-reading-tickets-39005341025
For directions, see: http://www.law.qmul.ac.uk/events/items/ceila-book-forum---voting-rights-of-refugees-by-dr-ruvi-ziegler-reading.html
Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax, Associate Professor / Senior Lecturer in Law
Founding Director, Immigration Law Programme, Queen Mary University of London
EU Asylum Law Coordinator, Refugee Law Initiative, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Visiting Professor, College of Europe, EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies Programme
Queen Mary Law School, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
NEW MONOGRAPH: Accessing Asylum in Europe (OUP, 2017)
Academia research page: https://qmul.academia.edu/VioletaMorenoLax
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