EVENTS
Global Asylum Governance and the EU’s Role: Implementing the UN Gobal Compact on Refugees and the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum
What are the key issues characterizing the implementation of the UN Global Compact on Refugees, and the EU’s role? This Conference aims at addressing this question in light of the key research findings resulting from the first year of work of the ASILE H2020 project.
The presentations will first examine from a comparative perspective the inclusionary and exclusionary components – the intersections between containment and mobility – of national asylum governance instruments across different world regions, as well as their impacts on international refugee law and human rights and lessons learned for the EU. This will be followed by a similar assessment of EU agreements and arrangements with third states on migration and asylum management.
The Conference includes a Policy Panel with high-level policy-makers and practitioners addressing the roles of accountability, global solidarity and refugee’s agency in the implementation of the UN Global Compact on Refugees and the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum.
Download the Programme of the Conference HERE
Speakers
Sergio Carrera
Senior Research Fellow and Head of Justice and Home Affairs Unit,
CEPS and Part-Time Professor at Migration Policy Centre (MPC), European
University Institute (EUI) – ASILE Coordinator
Audrey Macklin
University of Toronto, ASILE Country Expert & Advisory Board Member
Natalia Medina
Associate Professor, Universidade Federal do Oeste da Bahia
Fatima Khan
Associate Professor and Director of the Refugee Rights Unit, University of Cape Town
Lewis Turner
Lecturer, Newcastle University
Alice Kuhnke
Member of the European Parliament
Alexandra Cupsan-Catalin
Member of Commissioner Johansson’s Cabinet, European Commission
Sophie Magennis
Head of Policy and Legal Support, UNHCR Representation for EU Affairs
Charlotte Slente
General Secretary, Danish Refugee Council (DRC)
Amer Alkayed
Global Refugee Network
Jens Vedsted-Hansen
Professor, Aarhus University
Thomas Spijkerboer
Professor, VU Amsterdam
Meltem Ineli-Ciger
Assistant Professor, Suleyman Demirel University
Nik Tan
Senior Researcher, The Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR)
Andrew Geddes
Professor and Director Migration Policy Centre, EUI
Discussants
Tamirace Fakhoury
Associate Professor, Aalborg University and Scientific
advisor to the Kuwait Chair at Sciences Po
Luisa Feline Freier
Associate Professor, Universidad del Pacífico – Lima
Adèle Garnier
Assistant Professor, Université Laval – Québec
Gregor Noll
Professor, University of Gothenburg
Michael Collyer
Professor, University of Sussex
Jens Vedsted-Hansen
Professor, Aarhus University
Tsion Tadesse Abebe
Senior Researcher, Migration Programme, Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
Amanda Bisong
Policy Officer, European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)
Eleni Karageorgeou
Postdoctoral fellow, Lund University
Cathryn Costello
Professor of Fundamental Rights, Co-Director of the Centre for Fundamental Rights at Hertie School, The University of Governance in Berlin and University of Oslo
Event details
Day 1 – Monday
22 Mar 2021 / 15:00 – 17:15 (CET)
Day 2 – Tuesday
23 Mar 2021 / 11:00 – 16:00 (CET)