International Workshop: Municipal Migration Policy

27 April 2018, by Internetredaktion

Photo: Josep Bracons

The first international workshop on "Municipal migration policy - Between legal scopes for action and civil disobedience" brought together a select group of researchers at the University of Hamburg.

Municipalities in Europe and the US currently experience a revival as actors of migration policy. In April 2018, an international workshop at the University of Hamburg zoomed in on the legal questions arising from local migration policy. In a transatlantic exchange, researchers from around Europe and the US discussed what a new approach to refuge might look like in a multilevel legal system.

Prof. Hiroshi Motomura (UCLA), currently in Europe for a Guggenheim Fellowship research project, delivered a keynote lecture. Helene Heuser, who organized the workshop together with Prof. Nora Markard, opened with a contribution on The Law of Cities of Refuge. Svenja Ahlhaus (University of Hamburg) commented.

Prof. Sybille Münch (Leuphana, Lüneburg), Dr. Moritz Baumgärtel (Utrecht), and Dr. Miriam Schader (Max Planck Institute Göttingen) presented ongoing research projects, while Tim Wihl (Humboldt University Berlin) commented.

The aim of the workshop was to coordinate interdisciplinary research perspectives on municipal migration policies in Germany and Europe and to develop them further in a transatlantic dialogue.

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