Fourth 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 …
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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 …
Identification of asylum seekers with special reception and procedural needs in the Dutch asylum procedure
This report addresses the way in which the IND and COA identify asylum seekers with special needs. Attention is paid to the Medical Advice Interviewing and Decision-making (FMMU-advies), the Forensic …
Students IMRL publish about situation Chios
Hanna Umecka and Kenya Pigneret, two students of the master track Internatioal Migration and Refugee Law, went to Chios to work for Refugee Law Clinics Abroad (VU-Refugee Clinics Abroad externship). They wrote …
Ceaseval: Baseline Study Common European Asylum
In the framework of the Horizon 2020 project, CEASEVAL, Hans van Oort finalized in May 2018 the Baseline Study on the Common European Asylum Study on behalf of the ACMRL, …
NWO Veni grant for Lieneke Slingenberg
Lieneke Slingenberg has been awarded a NWO Veni grant for research on human rights and refugees. This grant allows highly promising researchers to conduct research for a period of three years.
Judgement in CJEU-case of Migration Law Clinic
On 12 April 2018 the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its judgment in case C-550/16. The CJEU in its judgment followed the argumentation in the expert opinion of …
Law professors object to Italy seizing migrant rescue boat Open Arms
A group of 29 leading international law academics in Europe are calling today for Italy to cease its policy of promoting, directing and enforcing returns to Libya with immediate effect after …
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The Social Rights of Irregular Migrants. A Quiet Revolution in European Judicial Discourse
Lieneke Slingenberg is a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS-KNAW) from February until June 2018. In her project, she investigates the …