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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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 …
Hemme Battjes, Evelien Brouwer and Hans van Oort participate in the Horizon 2020 project CEASEVAL. This project includes a comprehensive evaluation of the Common European Asylum System in a two-year …
Lecture 8 September 2017: Audrey Macklin Resettler Society: Making and Remaking Citizenship Through Private Refugee Sponsorship In her lecture Audrey Macklin introduces her research about private sponsorship of …
On September 1st, 2017, Betty de Hart will be appointed Full Professor of “Transnational families and migration law” at VU Amsterdam, in the section of migration law of the department …
After intensive negotiations between EU member states and Turkey between November 2015 and March 2016, EU and Turkey released a Statement on March 18, 2016 indicating their willingness to increase …
5 September 2016: Deborah Anker Social Justice, Gender and Legal Change in Asylum Law Legal change is often thought of as change from the top down – change brought about …
Professor Betty de Hart is the recipient of a 2016 European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant to establish an independent research team for her research project entitled EUROMIX: Regulating Mixed …
29 September 2015: Peggy Levitt Global Social Protection: Protecting and Providing Outside the Nation-State Framework In today’s world, more than 220 million people live in a country that is not …
The Cross-Border Welfare State research program started in 2006 and created a liaison between the law faculties of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the University of Groningen and University of Leuven. …