New Research Network on Migration as a legal and political process
2020-01-06
The network Migration as a legal and political process based at CRS and led by Rebecca Thorburn Stern has been granted CIRCUS funding for two years. It brings together researchers from different disciplines who approach legal and political dimensions of migration in a number of ways. The network gathers researchers from Law, History, Philosophy, Social Science and Theology and will be organising a number of open lectures and seminars during 2020-2021.
Migration is one of the major social challenges of our time and decision makers need a solid knowledge base in order to meet these challenges. The network Migration as a legal and political process brings together researchers from different disciplines who approach legal and political dimensions of migration in a number of ways. Traditional migration research has often started from the notion of migration as movement in space, over borders. But where a person is located geographically may not necessarily be decisive for his or her migration status. Therefore, the project aims to study migration as a movement in time, that is as a temporal process. Time as in a person’s age and time spent at a particular location may play an important role in the identification of who is counted as a migrant, as well as where, how and why this is the case. The network gathers researchers from Law, History, Philosophy, Social Science and Theology.
Projektledare: Rebecca Thorburn Stern, Department of Law, rebecca.stern@jur.uu.se
https://www.humsam.uu.se/circus-en/programmes-and-networks/2020-2021/