Migration and Law Network 2016 Conference
Europe’s crisis: What future for immigration and asylum law and policy?
Monday & Tuesday, 27-28 June 2016
Mason Lecture Theatre, Francis Bancroft Building
Queen Mary University of London
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
Please book your ticket before 23 June 2016 by visiting our Online Shop
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General registration:
• 27 June only - £35
• 28 June only - £30
• Both days - £50
Concessions (student, unwaged or pensioner):
• 27 June only - £15
• 28 June only - £12.50
• Both days - £20
Hosted by the Centre for Culture and Law (GLOCUL) and the Centre for European and International Legal Affairs (CEILA), Queen Mary University of London.
The European Union is today faced by significant movements of refugees and migrants from places, which have experienced war or economic / environmental pressure. Combined with recent terrorist attacks, these developments have led some to doubt the viability of the EU migration framework. At the same time, they have led to arguments for new action by EU institutions and agencies, and by neighbouring countries. New forms of solidarity have been sought by some states and sections of public opinion, but rejected by others. Given the current sense of crisis, there are great uncertainties as to the future direction of the EU migration framework, as well as its content. Against this background, the conference will be addressing the main legal and policy aspects of the ongoing EU migration crisis.
Plenary speakers
• Mark Camilleri, European Asylum Support Office
• Tineke Strik, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
• Madeline Garlick, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
• Kris Pollet, European Council on Refugees and Exiles
• Richard Ares, FRONTEX
Organisers
• Professor Valsamis Mitsilegas, Head of Law Department, Queen Mary
• Professor Elspeth Guild, Jean Monnet Professor, Queen Mary and Radboud University, Netherlands
• Professor Bernard Ryan, University of Leicester
• Dr Prakash Shah, School of Law, Queen Mary
• Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax, School of Law, Queen Mary
• Niovi Vavoula, School of Law, Queen Mary
Conference Programme
Monday 27 June 2016
10.00 - Registration
10.40 - Welcome by host and Migration and Law Network
• Professor Valsamis Mitsilegas (QMUL)
• Professor Bernard Ryan (Leicester)
11.00 - Panel 1: Securitising Migration Flows: Smuggling, Trafficking and Criminalisation
Chair: Ms Niovi Vavoula (QMUL)
• Ms Elena Paciotti et al (Fondazione Lelio e Lisli Basso / ISSOCO) - ‘New Experiences in Investigating and Prosecuting Migrant Smuggling: The Position of Victims’.
• Ms Chiara Ricci (Luxembourg) - ‘Criminalising Solidarity? Smugglers, Migrants and Rescuers in the Reform of the “Facilitators” Package’.
• Mr Herbert Rosenfeldt (Passau) - ‘Trust is Good, External Border Control is Better: Towards a New Notion of EU Solidarity?’
• Dr Kinga Janik (McGill): ‘Dealing with the Smuggling of Migrants as a Human Rights Issue: The “Extremely Vulnerable People” Paradigm’.
12.30 - Lunch
13.00 - Keynote Plenary: Europe’s Crisis: What Future for the Immigration and Asylum System?
Chair: Professor Elspeth Guild (QMUL)
• Mr Mark Camilleri (European Asylum Support Office)
• Dr Tineke Strik (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe)
• Dr Madeline Garlick (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)
• Mr Kris Pollet (European Council on Refugees and Exiles)
• Mr Richard Ares (FRONTEX) (to be confirmed)
14.30 - Coffee Break
15.00 - Panel 2: 'Boat Refugees' and Migrants at Sea: Within or Without the Rule of Law?
Chair: Dr Efthymios Papastavridis (Oxford / Athens / Thrace)
• Mr Richard L Kilpatrick, Jr and Lt Adam Smith (US Navy) - ‘The International Legal Obligation to Rescue During Mass Migration at Sea: Navigating the Sovereign and Commercial Dimensions of a Mediterranean Crisis’.
• Mr Samuel Cogolati, Ms Nele Verlinden and Dr Pierre Schmitt (KU Leuven) - ‘Migrants in the Mediterranean: Protecting Human Rights at Sea’.
• Dr Maria Varaki (Kadir Has University) - ‘NATO and Europe’s Mixed Migration Crisis: A New Era or the End of the EU Migration and Policy Framework?’
• Dr Ralph Wilde (UCL) - ‘When Migrants Take Perilous Sea Crossings: The Causal Role of International Law’.
16.30 - Coffee Break
17.00 - Panel 3: A Union of Solidarity? Dublin, Relocation and Beyond
Chair: Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax (QMUL)
• Ms Eleni Karageorgiou (Lund) - ‘The EU Asylum Crisis: Solidarity Amongst “Us” versus Solidarity between “Us” and “Them”.
• Professor Marie-Laure Basilien-Gainche (Lyon 3) - ‘The Europe Without Qualities: “Hotspots” and the General Relativity of Fundamental Rights’.
• Professor Marcello Di Filippo (Pisa) - ‘Dublin Re-imagined: Proposing a New Paradigm’.
• Mr Paolo Biondi (SAS) - ‘Human Security and External Burden-Sharing: The European Approach to Refugee Protection between Past and Present’.
18.30 - Buffet dinner (Senior Common Room in the Queens’ Building)
21.00 - Close of Day 1
Tuesday 28 June 2016
09.00 - Panel 4: International Cooperation: EU-Turkey Relations and Remote Migration Control
Chair: Professor Bernard Ryan (Leicester)
• Dr Gulay Icoz (KCL) - ‘The Logic of Prioritising in Preference Formation in International Relations: The Case of EU’s Refugee Deal with Turkey’.
• Professor Bulent Cicekli (Cicekli & Partners) - ‘The Role of Turkey in Controlling Migration Towards the EU: Solidarity on Burden Sharing or Burden Trading?’
• Dr Meltem Ineli-Ciger (Suleyman Demirel University) - ‘The EU-Turkey Joint Action Plan: Will it Work?’
• Dr Daniela Vitiello (Roma Tre) - ‘Enhancing the EU’s Migration Management Capacities through Delocalisation? Turkey’s Integration into the European Migration Framework and its Legal and Political Implications’.
10.30 - Coffee Break
11.00 - Panel 5: What Status and for Whom? Reconfiguring the Legal Position of Migrants
Chair: Dr Mariagiulia Giuffré (Edge Hill)
• Professor Eleftheria Neframi (Luxembourg) - ‘Migrant Status in the Context of Immigration and Refugee Crisis’.
• Ms Yewa Holiday (QMUL) - ‘Crimes of Asylum? Refugees and the Principle of Non-Penalisation’.
• Dr Tania Kaiser (SOAS) - ‘Reconceiving Refugee Resettlement’.
• Dr Laura Van Waas (Tilburg) - ‘What are the Implications of Statelessness for the Refugee Crisis in Europe and Vice Versa?’
12.30 - Lunch
13.00 - Panel 6: Politics and Policies in Times of Crisis
Chair: Dr Helena Wray (Middlesex)
• Mr Maciej Fagasinksi (Refugee.pl Foundation Poland) - ‘Visegrad Countries - A Trojan Horse of the Common EU Solution to the Mass Influx of Refugees and Persons in Need of International Protection?’
• Dr Vladislava Stoyanova (Lund) - ‘Recasting Refugee Protection in Bulgaria and the Good and Bad about EU Asylum Law’.
• Ms Giulia Vicini (Milan/Paris I) - ‘The EU Refugee Crisis: The End of the Harmonization Approach?’
• Dr Francesco Cherubini (Luiss) - ‘Horse of Troy Reloaded: The Revision of EU Competences on Asylum as a Vector of Solidarity’.
14.30 - Coffee Break
15.00 - Panel 7: Lessons for Europe: Cross-Regional Experiences
Chair: Professor Helene Lambert (Westminster)
• Ms Sabrineh Ardalan (Harvard) - ‘Morocco as Gatekeeper and Parallelisms with the US/Mexico Border Experience’.
• Ms Linda Kirk (ANU) - ‘Lessons from Down Under: The “Outsourcing” of Australia’s International Refugee and Human Rights Obligations to Nauru’.
• Professor Susan Kneebone (Melbourne) - ‘Lessons from Southeast Asia for the European Union?’
• Dr Micaela Malena (UNHCR) - ‘The EU’s Response to Refugee Influxes and the Ugandan Model of Refugee Protection: Facts for Thought’.
16.30 - Coffee Break
16.45 - Closing Session: Wider Reflections on the Migration Crisis
Chair: Dr Prakash Shah (QMUL)
• Dr Dallal Stevens (Warwick) - ‘EU Asylum Law in “Crisis” or Catalyst for Necessary Change?’
• Dr Sylvie Van der Walt (Luxembourg) - ‘European Values and National Interests: How to Avoid a Clash of (European) Civilizations in the Migration Crisis’
• Professor Dora Kostakopoulou (Warwick) - 'Family Reunification in the EU Contested and the Plight of Syrian Refugees'.
• Professor Bernard Ryan (Leicester) - ‘EU and International Law and the Migration Crisis: On the Road to Where?’
18.15 - Closing remarks and farewell by conveners
• Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax (QMUL)
18.30 - Close of Day 2
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