Projects
Migration & Equal Opportunity in Education – a human rights law analysis KU Leuven
Belgium is a country of immigration. Labor migration, colonial migration, the arrival of different international institutions and membership of the EU, have brought a growing amount of non-Belgians into the country. Their influence on Belgian demographics is significant, most importantly so among children. Almost thirty percent of Flemish children have a foreign background, with ten percent having no Belgian nationality. However, the Flemish ...
The meaning of the sufficient resources condition in European migration law University of Antwerp
Families on the Move: The Coordination between international family law and migration law Ghent University
FAMIMOVE’s general objective is to contribute to the effective and coherent application of the EU acquis in the field of international
family law, in particular by ensuring more awareness of international child protection instruments applicable to migrant children. To
this end, the project seeks to implement the recommendations of the studies published in June 2017 by the European Parliament’s
Committee on Legal Affairs ...
The interactions between the principle of effectiveness and fundamental rights in the case law of the Court of Justice of the EU in the field of migration KU Leuven
The concern for the ’effectiveness’ of EU law, which is one of the key driving forces of the EU legal order, has been often perceived by academics as an impediment for the generous application of fundamental rights in the Area of Freedom Security and Justice. Yet, the recent case law of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in the field of Asylum Law indicates that in some circumstances, especially when applied in conjunction with the right ...
International Migration and Refugee Law Moot Court Competition Ghent University
The first International Migration and Refugee Law Moot Court Competition was organized by the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2019. The Ghent University team won the first edition and will organize the next edition in March 2022 (after postponement due to Covid in 2020). A moot court simulates a court hearing, (i.e. an appeal against a negative decision regarding an international application) in which participants file a legal submission, ...
Cooperation or externalisation? EU migration policy, the law, and the migrants. Ghent University
Conference on the impact of so-called ‘externalisation’ in migration policies on transit countries mainly in Africa, with a focus on the external dimension of EU migration policy and its nexus with development cooperation, and on socio-legal research.
The initiative will include a keynote speech, four panels, a PhD masterclass and a side-event organised by a development cooperation partner.
Foreign national prisoners facing expulsion. The percolation of migration law enforcement into sentence implementation decision-making on release in Belgium. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Nation states have adopted penal early release procedures for foreign national prisoners (FNPs) that are linked to migration law enforcement, though to differing degree. Additionally, FNPs are prioritized for expulsion and subjected to further administrative detention and lengthy entry bans under migration law due to their criminal law violations.
LACUNA
Despite the emerging intertwining of criminal and ...