Legal discourses on international and EU migration/refugee law in Central and Eastern Europe: emerging new narratives or business as usual?
Prague, 9–10 May 2024
Faculty of Law, Charles University
Dear colleagues,
we are happy to announce the conference “Legal discourses on international and EU migration/refugee law in Central and Eastern Europe: emerging new narratives or business as usual?” which will be held on 9-10 May, 2024 in Prague, Czechia.
The conference marks the 20th anniversary of EU's large "big bang" enlargement by revisiting and reflecting on CEE countries' engagement with international / EU migration law in past two decades. Central and Eastern European countries (especially the Visegrad countries) often have a somewhat different approach to migration and refugee law and policy than Western European countries. This was the case, for example, in 2015 and 2016, when Europe was divided politically and legally on how to deal with larger numbers of people seeking protection.
We invite researchers interested in asylum and migration-related topics to submit their abstracts by February 1st, 2024.
What are we interested in? The conference organizers invite submissions of papers including (but not limited to) the following themes:
- changes in the laws of the Central and East European (CEE) countries and their compatibility with international/EU law and the framing of the legal changes;
- evolution of legal scholarship and doctrines on refugee and migration law issues in the CEE region;
- sovereignty v. human rights in the narratives and discourses of the CEE legal scholarship;
- protection-sensitive entry channels in the narratives and legal scholarship of CEE countries;
- breaching international and European law in CEE countries and its reflection in academic debates, etc.
The themes are related to Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), but we are definitely interested in comparative perspectives from other (sub)regions of the world.
And if you are a PhD student and want to get feedback on your work from experts on refugee and migration law in Central and Eastern Europe, let us know in the abstract. We plan a doctoral seminar at the beginning of the conference.
A detailed call for papers with a list of our supporters and the names of the Scientific Committee members is attached and can also be found here.
The conference is planned as a face-to-face event.
Looking forward to seeing you in Prague!
Věra Honusková, Tamás Molnár and the conference team
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