Rethinking mobility
Today there are 70.8 million forcibly displaced people worldwide – and many more that fall outside the category of refugee, asylum seeker, or IDP. Irregular migrants, and so-called ‘economic’ and ‘climate’ refugees are just a few of the categories of people on the move today. While borders certainly exist in our world, different mobility schemes (both formal and informal) challenge the straightforwardness of ‘crossing borders’, creating new and even extralegal categories of the bounds of territory. Some of the questions addressed here include: How does – and should – the international refugee regime protect irregular and other migrants falling outside the 1951 Convention? Where does mobility fall on the human rights agenda, and vice versa? What innovative temporary protection measures exist, and how might these both help and hurt migrants, and even the category of refugee?
William Allen
Junior Research Fellow, Magdalen College, University of Oxford
William Allen is a Fellow by Examination (Junior Research Fellow) in Political and Development Studies at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. He also is a researcher with the Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford.
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Diletta Lauro
DPhil Candidate, Refugee Studies Centre, Department of International Development, University of Oxford
Diletta Lauro is a DPhil Candidate at the Refugee Studies Centre, Department of International Development, University of Oxford. Her doctoral research explores the ethical and political controversies raised by the state practice of expulsion of irregular migrants by looking at civil society contestations of deportation on the ground.
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Janina Stürner
Research Fellow, Centre for Area Studies, Friedrich-Alexander-University
Janina Stürner is a researcher at the Friedrich-Alexander-University, Germany. Her work focuses on the analysis of (joint) strategies of cities, European institutions and international organisations to strengthen the role of municipalities and city networks in multi-level migration governance.
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