1 October 2018 Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa International Conference: The relevance of migration for the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. Coordinated by Odysseus Portuguese Member Prof. Constança Urbano de Sousa Programme: More info and registration here.
The Odysseus Academic Network is very pleased to announce that its Portuguese Member Nuno Piçarra has been appointed as a judge to the Court of Justice of the European Union. On 25 July 2018, the representatives of the governments of the member states appointed Mr Nuno José Cardoso da Silva Piçarra (Portugal) as judge to […]
Bifurcation of people, bifurcation of law: externalization of migration policy before the EU Court of Justice Journal of Refugee Studies Vol. 31, No. 2 . Thomas Spijkerboer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Abstract: In the past 25 years, European migration policy has been externalized, resulting in a bifurcation of human movement. This has become clearly […]
Will the Global Compact on Refugees Address the Gap in International Refugee Law Concerning Burden Sharing? New post on Ejil: Talk! by Odysseus Turkish Member Meltem Ineli-Ciger. Available here.
2018 Venice Academy of Human Rights The Venice Academy of Human Rights is an international and interdisciplinary programme of excellence for human rights education, research and debate. It provides an enriching forum for emerging ideas, practices and policy options in the field of human rights. The Academy hosts distinguished experts to promote critical and useful […]
Migration Data for Policy Summer School Theme: Migration data for policy: Building capacity with governments, academics and civil society. Date: 9-12 July 2018 Venue: Bristol Marriott Hotel Migration Data for Policy – Summer School agenda (PDF, 490kB) The Summer School on Migration Data for Policy is a new initiative of theInternational Organization for Migration’s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre and […]
Legalise labour migration to reduce irregular migration? Time: 18th June 2018, 12h30 – 15h30 Venue: the Hanse-Office, Avenue Palmerston 20, 1000 Brussels. In view of the disastrous situation of migrants in Libya, the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker reiterated in November 2017 his call for legal ways for migrants to Europe as it would clearly need […]