Migration and Security

Exclusive Fellow Session

9:30am-11am, 25th May 2023

This fellow session aims at examining how the EU managed the Ukrainian refugees inflow, compared to other migration crises, in particular the so-called 2015 Refugee crisis, to see how migration can be either addressed with a humanitarian and/or rights-based approach, or framed as a crisis and security issue. Building up on this, and on the readings provided, the fellows will be invited to think about potential and sustainable avenues to address future global displacement of people to Europe. The fellows will be encouraged to take into consideration existing challenges such as climate change to adopt a rights-based approach, but also the demographic challenge in Europe.

Moderated by Marguerite Arnoux Bellavitis

Marguerite is doing a Joint PhD in Human Rights and Political Science at the Universities of Palermo and Salzburg (2020-2024), where she works on the administrative governance of the EU migration and asylum policy and its impact on the fundamental rights of migrants. She is currently doing a visiting fellowship at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, and prior to this she was a visiting fellow at Maastricht University. She obtained a Master’s degree in European Studies from the University Paris 8 in 2018, and a Master in Human Rights and Democratisation from the Global Campus of Human Rights in 2020.

Recommended literature

These are not required for the workshop, but are designed for those who are interested in reading further on this topic.