14/10/2024 – Jean Monnet EU Migration Law and Governance Lecture with Dr. Diego Acosta
The next lecture in the Jean Monnet EU Migration Law and Governance Lecture series is taking place on Monday 14th October from 15:30-17:00. It will feature Diego Acosta, Professor of European and Migration Law, University of Bristol (UK), on the theme “The Changing Global Migration Law: Free Movement Regimes and the Creation of the New Migrant“.
Abstract: Free Movement Regimes (FMRs) have become integral to global migration law. However, no commonly accepted definition exists and relatively limited critical analysis has been advanced on their implications. To fill this gap, based on an empirical description of their growth over time and space, we advance the first definition of FMRs that captures their differentia specifica. On this ground, we question how FMRs are reshaping migration and with which implications. Our claim is that FMRs not only provide great existential chances to individuals but also impose a transformation on them that is qualitatively different from classic migration dynamics. FMRs, thus, engender profound consequences that are not just incidental but rather structural to their very nature. Namely, FMRs are contributing to the creation of a new anthropological figure whose socio-political effects on national, international, and global polities are yet to be properly explored: the ‘New Migrant’.
The Jean Monnet EU Migration Law and Governance Lecture series is convened at the Law Faculty by Lilian Tsourdi. The series is organised in cooperation with the research centers and groups MCEL, MACIMIDE and Glaw-NET.
For more information and registration please see: https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/jean-monnet%C2%A0eu-migration-law-and-governance-lecture-series%C2%A0-1.