Citizenship and Migration
The Building block on Citizenship and Migration is currently focusing its research on the theme: Mobility in a European Post-Crisis Scenario: Legislative Dynamics and Enforcement Challenges. On this page you find a description of the project's Thematic scope, Coordinators and members, Upcoming and past events, Research outputs, and Opportunities and contact.
Thematic Scope
The building block aims to theoretically contest the major divides between citizenship and migration by legally and empirically investigating the interconnection between these social and legal phenomena from the perspective of legislative and policy reforms as well as the enforcement of rights and norms.
Building on previous research, the focus will be on the post-crisis scenario. After the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ of 2015, new types of arrangements have been proposed or adopted at the international, EU and national levels, expanding the regulatory tools, re-organising the policy toolbox as well as the theoretical paradigms. These dynamics have triggered a thriving academic debate which has contributed to flag the limits of the existing legislative and enforcement regimes.
This Building Block combines law and criminological approaches to offer a multidisciplinary and multidimensional perspective that mostly focuses on national and European migration governance. Our ambitious goal is to highlight how the situation of crisis and its instrumentalisation has created new risks of fragmentation at law-making levels (regulation) as well as of marginalisation at the level of law enforcement, with an emerging complex shared administration which is especially operational at the borders of the EU. Arguably, these dynamics risk perpetuating a situation of crisis and it seems pertinent to question whether we will ever be out of the ‘crisis.’
Coordinators
Members
- Prof. Hanneke van Eijken (Utrecht University School of Law – International and European Law)
- Dr. Vassilis Gerasopoulos (Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology)
- Dr. Türkan Ertuna Lagrand (Utrecht University School of Law – International and European Law)
- Dr. Viola Bex (Utrecht University School of Law – Administrative and Constitutional Law)
- Prof. Paul Minderhoud (Utrecht University School of Law – International and European Law)
- Mr. Elmin Omičević (Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology)
- Imke Smits LLM (Utrecht University School of Law – Administrative and Constitutional Law).
- Prof. Dina Siegel (Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology)
- Agostina Pirrello (Utrecht University School of Law – International and European Law)
- Dr. Lavinia Kortese (Utrecht University School of Law – International and European Law)
- Dr. Tina Stavrinaki (Utrecht University School of Law – International and European Law)
Related research projects
MIGROBAL – Global implications of migratory movements (Utrecht Centre for Global Challenges)
Upcoming events
Thursday 18 April 2024 (from 10:00 to 13:30): Seminar: Shores of Collaboration – Unpacking the Italy-Albania Protocol on the Externalisation of Asylum Processing
Past events
Research outputs
Contact
For questions and collaboration opportunities, please contact StudentassistentRENFORCE@uu.nl