New student of IMRL: Shota
An interview with: Shota My name is Shota Hitomi, a legal practitioner and registered migration agent from Australia. I am Japanese by nationality and my family migrated to Australia when …
New student of IMRL: Greta
An interview with: Greta I am Greta, an Italian student interested in the multifaceted subject of migration law, and particularly asylum law. This interest began during my interdisciplinary bachelor in …
Polish entry ban in the Schengen Information System on Ukraine human rights activist
By Evelien Brouwer Brouwer questions in her Verfassungsblog and in the interview with Die Welt the lawfulness and proportionality of a Polish entry ban issued to Mrs Kozlovska, president of …
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A new study association: IMSO
This year, a few students of the IMRL Master Track set up a study association that is solely dedicated to migration and human rights issues. The association is called IMSO, …
Project ‘Know your rights’
Mid October the Know Your Rights Project has started. Know Your Rights is a program which is set up by international law firm DLA Piper in cooperation with NGO New …
Alumni: Ludovica Gualtieri
An interview with: Ludovica Gualtieri I’m Ludovica Gualtieri, a political science graduate from Rome, Italy. I developed a deep interest and passion for the topic of migration since my first …
Alumni: Lynn Hillary
An interview with: Lynn Hillary My name is Lynn Hillary and I came to Amsterdam in 2015 to study IMRL. Before that, I had studied public law in Belgium (VUB, …
Sarah van Walsum-lecture: Helena Wray
Lecture 28 September 2018: Helena Wray Legal issues in family migration In her lecture, Helena Wray discussed the UK Supreme Court’s case law on article 8 and family reunification as a …
EUROMIX Research Project
The Euromix research team at the Vrije Universiteit Faculty of Law study the regulation of ‘mixture’ (‘inter-racialized’ sex, relationships and marriage) in Europe’s past and present. The project challenges the common assumption that Europe never …
‘The Other Traveller’
In this documentary by Pieter Boeles he asks the question why ‘we’ can travel everywhere and why ‘they’ or ‘the others’ can only reach Europe with danger to their own …