A presentation by Vera Wriedt (Hertie School Centre for Fundamental Rights). This event is part of the Fundamental Rights Research Colloquium hosted by the Centre for Fundamental Rights.
During collective expulsions, people are forcibly returned without the possibility to explain their individual circumstances - implying the denial of any protection or other needs. This interdisciplinary research examines to what extent human rights law can counteract such exclusion at the border and traces the forms of statehood and subjecthood that emerge through legal discourse. In order to critically appraise the applicable human rights provisions, uncover the mechanisms underlying the denial of access to allegedly universal protection and highlight transformative counterpoints, the project dissects regional jurisprudence in the European and African human rights systems through the prism of legal and post-colonial studies. Thus, the research brings together two pertinent but often disconnected bodies of literature and contributes to filling a gap in legal analyses on migration, which tend to overlook postcolonial theory and its insights into the colonial logics shaping border violence.
This presentation is part of the Fundamental Rights Research Colloquium's cluster on „Critical Engagements with Fundamental Rights”.
Vera Wriedt is a PhD researcher at the Hertie School’s Centre for Fundamental Rights. She holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University, an LLM in Human Rights from Birkbeck University of London and an MA for Research in Social Sciences from Humboldt University Berlin. Before starting her PhD, Vera worked in the Migration Programme of the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR). She was also a lecturer at Freie Universität Berlin teaching seminars on human rights and migration. Vera’s research has been supported by the Hertie School and the Heinrich Böll Foundation, among others. She is part of the Network for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies (Kritnet).
Prior registration is required. Registered attendees will receive the dial-in details as well as a draft paper, on which the presentation is based, via e-mail prior to the event.