Horizon 2020 project: Ceaseval
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 …
Third Sarah van Walsum-lecture: Audrey Macklin
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 …
Betty de Hart appointed Professor
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 …
Situation of Readmitted Migrants and Refugees from Greece to Turkey under the EU-Turkey Statement
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 …
Second Sarah van Walsum-lecture: Deborah Anker
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 …
EUROMIX: Regulating Mixed Intimacies in Europe
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 …
First Sarah van Walsum-lecture: Peggy Levitt
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 …
Migration Law as a Family Matter
Besides controlling mobility, migration law also impacts on (transnational) family norms and obligations and raises policy issues regarding care, abuse, solidarity and neglect – both in migrants’ countries of origin …
Time and Identity. The relation between time and identity in the context of family migration law
NWO Onderzoekstalent 2012 – Hemme Battjes, Martijn Stronks What are the legal consequences if a migrant spends time in a country? Often s/he will receive stronger status, sometimes even if …
Human Costs of Border Control
On the basis of globalization theories, as well as on the basis of developments in European migration policies, we hypothesize that since 1990 migration law has witnessed a shift from …