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Please join us tomorrow at Leiden University at the Master's Open Day and get to know our new Master's program: Governance of Migration and Diversity - legal track (set to start at the fall of 2024). 🤗 To learn more about the objectives and structure of the program, please read the wonderful interview Moritz Jesse did (link below). A quick extract: "The master's structure is multidisciplinary and trains students in the legal aspects of migration, immigrant 'integration', asylum, anti-racism, and diversity. Students are taught from different academic disciplines such as sociology and public administration in Rotterdam, history in Leiden and development studies at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague."

Please join for GLOCAL's seminar "The politics of ‘evidence’ and ‘impact’ in migration research," featuring Tineke Strik, Nora Stel and myself on Friday 19 January 15:30-16:30 at Radboud University (EOS 01.110). Registration link here: https://lnkd.in/evzuP2Hi Abstract below: Academia today venerates ‘societal impact,’ ‘public engagement,’ and ‘valorization.’ Nowhere is this ambition to take academic insights beyond the ivory tower of universities more pertinent than in the field of migration studies. The political relevance of migration is a core driver for co-creation with and dissemination towards societal stakeholders. But the topic’s politicization also complicates and sometimes compromises scholars’ space for meaningful influence. The second session of GLOCAL’s lecture series on interdisciplinary migration studies – organized in collaboration with the GAPs project on decentering the study of return migration governance – puts these questions on the politics of evidence, credibility, and impact center stage. Legal anthropologist Jill Alpes reflects on the role of knowledge in human rights advocacy and litigation and explicates conditions for critical migration research that is also actionable. Professor in the Sociology of Migration Law and Member of European Parliament Tineke Strik discusses under what conditions truth claims can do political and legal work in legislative processes.

📢 Standing Up for the Voiceless? Exploring the EU's Capacity for Rights Protection ⏰ June 10th & 11th 📍 Room P02 at UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles Organisation: Denis Duez (Professor of Political Science, UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles) & Cecilia Rizcallah (Professor in Law, UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles) The EUNMUTE Doctoral and Early-Career Scholars Workshop will gather doctoral researchers and early-career scholars in fields such as law, political science, sociology, political philosophy, or EU studies to contribute to an engaging discussion on the European Union’s role in protecting fundamental rights through the concept of EU’s “un-muting power”. The workshop will explore whether and how the EU has been a driver of un-muting, and how voicelessness has been tackled in a number of policy domains such as natural resources preservation, safeguard of the rule of law and migration and asylum. Beyond the specificity of each case-study, the workshop aims to explore the very narrative according to which the EU can amplify the voices of marginalized and unheard groups. The workshop is structured around six panels that will help shape the event’s overall focus. 🔗 More information in the comment section

An edited book that I published in 2015, is now open access 😃 'Punishing the Other' was a dream project in relation to topic, scope, and the amazing chapter contributors. Thanks to a major research grant, we were all able to meet at our Monash campus in Prato, Italy, for a three day workshop which resulted in this book. A career highlight, that you now can read free anywhere in the world! Here is the link: https://lnkd.in/gvR3WBKB Punishing the Other draws on the work of Zygmunt Bauman to discuss contemporary discourses and practices of punishment and criminalization. Bringing together some of the most exciting international scholars, both established and emerging, this book engages with Bauman’s thesis of the social production of immorality in the context of criminalization and social control, and addresses processes of othering’ through a range of contemporary case studies situated in various cultural, political and social contexts. Topics covered include the increasing bureaucratization of the business of punishment with the corresponding loss of moral and ethical reflection in the public sphere; punitive discourses around border control and immigration; and exclusionary discourses and their consequences concerning ‘terrorists’ and other socially and culturally defined outsiders. Engaging with national and global issues that are more topical now than ever before, this book is essential reading for academics and students involved in the study of the sociology of punishment, punishment and modern society, the criminal justice system, philosophy and punishment, and comparativecriminology and penology.

History of the regional socio-legal scholarship in a nutshell: It starts gloriously in the 1870s with Bogišić's monumental research on legal customs of Southern Slavs, and becomes driving force of institutionalisation of general sociology in the early 1930s. It suffers tragically in the socialist Yugoslavia, assimilated by legal theory on one side, and disdained by rising sociology that now plays a significant public role. It picks it self up in the twilight of socialist Yugoslavia, totally unexpected, and picks up the pace throughout 1990s, gaining ever growing presence and aiming for prominence. The most recent period is marked by explosion of academic production. Between 2004 and 2014 region saw publication of around 20 textbooks and readers. Each regional capitol prizes with at least one of these books, except Sarajevo & Podgorica (there is one published in East Sarajevo in 2008 but is no longer in use). Since 2017 until now, around 20 papers were published in local and international journals and they mostly revolve around two core areas: judiciary and legal professions, and law and culture/legal culture. #law #sociology #westernbalkans #history

Check out this call for papers for a conference of our MeDiMi research project in September 2024 on migration & human rights!

🚨 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗡𝗢-𝗢𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 🚨 We're excited to announce the opening of the call for papers for the NO-OBLIVION project: “Promoting Universal Jurisdiction while Evoking the Crimes Committed in Former Yugoslavia.” 📚✍️ The NO-OBLIVION project aims to reflect on the past conflicts through the lens of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) jurisprudence. Our mission is twofold: to ensure greater awareness of European history and the lessons it offers, and to promote the study of International Criminal Law (ICL) and universal jurisdiction. We invite graduates and undergraduates in fields such as Law, International Relations, European Studies, Criminology, History, Sociology, and related disciplines to submit their papers. 𝗧𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁: 🔍 ICTY jurisprudence 🔍 Historical, legal, and political topics related to ICL and the Yugoslavia trials 🔍 Universal jurisdiction challenges Selected papers will be published in the NO-OBLIVION Memory Lane Journal, and authors may get opportunities to present at the Memory Lane Online Conference and the Reviving Balkan Arts Festival in Croatia (Spring 2025). 🌍 📅 Important Dates: • Call for papers: July 1, 2024 – August 30, 2024 • Revision period: September 2, 2024 – September 30, 2024 • Publication and launching event: October 2024 • Memory Lane Online Conference: November 2024 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿, 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺: https://loom.ly/Sbh-a4w We look forward to your participation. Help us preserve history and promote justice! 💡⚖️ #NoOblivion #UniversalJurisdictionJustice #MemoryForPeace

Call for Papers: Writing Workshop – ‘The Politics of Emotion in Migration Law’ 📅 Date: October 2024 and Spring 2025 (First meeting on October 10, 2024) 📍 Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands The ACMRL is pleased to announce the call for papers for our interdisciplinary writing workshop 'The Politics of Emotion in Migration Law'. This workshop will explore how emotions are intertwined with decision-making processes and national identity in migration law. Participants will consider how actors assess and enact emotions, with implications for refugees, migrants and their families. The aim is to work towards a special issue or edited book coordinated by Betty de Hart, Irma Lammers, Nina Fokkink and Ioana Vrabiescu. Possible topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Family relationships and kinship * Fear of political persecution * Public order and national security * Labour migration dynamics * State practices of migration deterrence The workshop is interdisciplinary and invites scholars from all disciplines (e.g., law, socio-legal studies, anthropology, sociology, history, political science) to contribute. 📜 Submission:
 Please submit a 400-word abstract and a 100-word bio by June 1, 2024. Decisions will be communicated by June 15, 2024. Join us in bridging the boundaries between 'asylum’ and 'regular‘ migration to better understand the critical role of emotions in this field. For more details and information our website: https://lnkd.in/eRwYvTvB

Happy to announce that my article on South Africa’s ‘rather’ compelling case of failing anti-corruption has been accepted and published in the Journal of Crime, Law and Social Change. https://rdcu.be/dHvsf In this article, I ‘humbly’ push back against what I term as the orthodox explanation of failing anti-corruption, show why scholarships on South Africa’s anti-corruption seem to be confined within this orthodoxy, and draw on socio-legal theories to offer nuanced and fresh insights into why the country’s anti-corruption efforts achieve minimal results. The article is Open-Access kind courtesy Det juridiske fakultet, UiO , Universitetet i Oslo (UiO) | University of Oslo University of Oslo, Institute of Criminology and Sociology of Law. So please click on the link below to download or read for free. I dedicate this article to Professor Måns Svensson under whose tutelage, guidance and support I learned many valuable things, especially the enviable skills of conducting systematic reviews and ‘sharp’ academic writing. He took me under his wing and taught me all that made this paper possible. Also, I’d like express heartfelt gratitude to my supervisors Professor Peter Scharff Smith and Dr. Eva Magdalena Stambøl for their critical and timely feedback throughout the entire process of this project. Lastly, special thanks goes to the South Africa Discussion Group at the African Studies Centre of the University of Oxford, and Professor Miles Lamer for their feedback on my first draft during my short research visit in 2023. #articles #article #news #writing #magazine #instagram #books #criminology #thesis #assignments #art #blogger #sociologyoflaw #writer #law #phd #un #internationallaw #southafrica #corruption #bribe #projects #life #fraud #grammar #entrepreneur #content #statecapture #journalism #covid