Dear colleagues,

Please find details below of the next two seminars on the Refugee Law Initiative’s 8th International Refugee Law Seminar Series, ‘Refugee Law in the New World Disorder’.

The International Refugee Law Seminar Series, sponsored by the Refugee Law Initiative at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, provides a public space for discussion, promotion and dissemination of research between academics, practitioners, students and others with an interest in the refugee and forced migration field.

All seminars are free and open to the public. Registration is available through our website.


The Evolution of Migration Management in the Global North
Christina Oelgemoller, Lecturer (Loughborough University)
16 November 2017, 6.00pm | Woburn Suite (G22-26), Senate House

Abstract:
Governments of the Global North came together in the 1980s driven by urgency to gain back control over their borders brought about by a ‘refugee crisis’. This sparked a process of idea exchange moulding into doctrine formation that is today normalised as Migration Management. The building blocks of Migration Management are securitisation on the one hand and entrepreneurialisation on the other. This discourse is normatively violent in as much as it makes objects of erasure of a minority of people who could otherwise be understood to be forced migrants. The presentation will shed light on the tools that render a discourse of protection unintelligible to enforcement agencies and governments of the Global North by recounting how the doctrine of Migration Management came to be formed in the secretive forum of the Intergovernmental Consultations on Migration, Asylum and Refugees.

This seminar will introduce Dr Oelgemoller's book which was just published by Routledge.

Speaker:
Dr Christina Oelgemoller is currently a Lecturer in International Relations at Loughborough University. Christina’s research is driven by questions about statecraft, democracy and ethics, around two specific areas of research interest: constructions of political subjectivity and equality, and doctrine formation in international multilateralism and diplomacy.


The Impact of Brexit on UK Asylum Law
Colin Yeo, Barrister (Garden Court Chambers), Founder and Editor (Free Movement)
27 November 2017, 6.00pm | Council Chamber, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Abstract:
Directive 2004/xx/EC, known as the Qualification Directive, has become one of the primary sources of refugee law in the UK and across the European Union. Other aspects of the holistic European Common Asylum System such as the Reception Directive and the Dublin Convention have had a huge impact on the practicalities and processes of claiming asylum, right down to the number of asylum claimants reaching the UK. Withdrawal from these legal instruments is likely to have a profound effect on processes but it is arguable that the impact on refugee law in the UK will be relatively slight given that EU asylum law in effect “levelled up” to pre-existing UK standards in many ways. Colin will review what instruments are actually affected by Brexit, consider the impact of UK withdrawal and reflect on the effects on substantive refugee law.

Speaker:
Colin is a barrister, blogger and campaigner at Garden Court Chambers in London. He edits the Free Movement immigration and asylum law blog, which he founded in 2007. Previously employed by the Immigration Advisory Service and Refugee Legal Centre before becoming a barrister, Colin specialises in immigration and asylum law representing those affected by the UK’s harsh immigration rules. He frequently acts in asylum cases but also works a lot with families affected by the minimum income rule for spouses and the adult dependent relative rule, with children and others resident in the UK for a long time and with those relying on European free movement law.
 

Susan Reardon-Smith
Academic Support Officer
Refugee Law Initiative
School of Advanced Study | University of London | Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, UK

 
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