Refugees, asylum seekers and stateless persons need, but are often denied, international legal protection. This panel examines the role of cities and camps in providing novel forms of refuge and the need to explore new forms of protection for arriving migrants.
This panel discussion featuring
Michel Agier (EHESS),
Ilse van Liempt (Utrecht University) and
Dallal Stevens (University of Warwick), examines the role of cities and camps in providing novel forms of refuge and the need to explore new forms of protection for arriving migrants.
Michel Agier
(EHESS) —
New thoughts about the Stateless place: Calais, its camp, its migrants
Ilse van Liempt
(
Utrecht University) —
Welcoming cities? Balancing rights and responsibilities towards asylum seekers at the local level
Dallal Stevens
(University of Warwick) —
How the Middle East is changing the meaning of “protection”
Migration Week 2016
International Migration and Ethnic Relations Research Unit Bergen (IMER),
Centre for Women’s and Gender Research (SKOK), the
Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) and the
Faculty of Law at the University of Bergen
in collaboration with
Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies and Bergen Resource Centre.
What is at stake and how can it be solved?
See full program here.
All events are free, open to the public and represent some of the most exciting scholarship on migration aimed at the general audience.
