This workshop is co-organised by the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School and will take place on 2-3 June at Universidad de Nebrija, Madrid.
The workshop will gather a group of activists and scholars from law, humanities and the social sciences to engage in an in-depth conversation to critically unpack the relationship between solidarity and migration as mediated by law, seeking to explore the conflicts and tensions inherent in responses to the mobility of people from different perspectives. The objective is to dissect the concept / value / principle of solidarity and its several manifestations, paradoxes, and possibilities when it is deployed in response to the rights and needs of migrant populations or as a call to support or accompany their mobilizations and political struggles, considering the role that law plays in this context, as an enabler or an obstructor.
This activity is part of an ongoing project that examines solidarity and migration from a collaborative transdisciplinary lens, a first output of which was published as a symposium of AJIL Unbound. It is jointly convened by (alphabetic order) Professor Diego Acosta (University of Nebrija & University of Bristol), Professor Alexandra Délano Alonso (The New School, New York), Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax (ICREA-Universitat de Barcelona, Queen Mary University of London & Hertie School), and Professor Jaya Ramji-Nogales (Temple, Beasley Law School) with support from Nebrija-Santander Global Chair in Migration and Human Rights, The New School, Temple, Beasley Law School, ICREA-Universitat de Barcelona, the (B)OrderS Centre for the Legal Study of Borders, Migration and Displacement of Queen Mary University of London, and the Hertie School Centre for Fundamental Rights.
The workshop is by invitation only, but the keynote roundtable discussion of 2 June (16:00 – 18:00 CEST) by Professor Cecilia Bailliet (University of Oslo & UN Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity), Professor Pablo Ceriani (National University of Lanús & Vice-Chairperson of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Migrant Workers and Their Families (CMW)), and Michèle LeVoy (Director of PICUM) is open to the public. For more information and registration, please visit this page.
The programme for this workshop is available here.
