in Gothenburg

Attributing Responsibility for Transnational Violations of Migrant Rights

Spring 2024
  • 26 February – 29 March. On-campus week in Gothenburg, 11–15 March

Please note that accommodation in Gothenburg is covered for all PhD students who are admitted to the course.

Course Directors: Dr. Eleni Karageorgiou, Faculty of Law, Lund University Professor Gregor Noll, Department of Law, Gothenburg University

Confirmed International Lecturers:

  • B.S. Chimni, Jindal Global University, India (by link)
  • Gamze Ovacik, Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey/McGill University, Montreal, Canada (by link)

In this course, we track violations of migrant rights, such in cases of pushbacks, refoulement or dismal detention conditions, emerging in the context of such multiparty, transnational cooperation. We focus on forms of cooperation involving the EU, its Member States or both. For Northern states, it leverages power differentials between the North and the South while shifting legal responsibility for rights violation onto Southern partners. Attributing international legal responsibility for violations of migrant rights in a multiparty, transnational context is difficult, and the resulting responsibility gap might be an incentive for migration control by proxy.

This course has three main objectives. First, we shall examine how North-South cooperation increases the risk of violating migrant rights. We will focus on EU cooperation with four countries – Niger, Serbia, Tunisia and Turkey. Second, we shall explore how recent international legal debates on the expansion of responsibility attribution may be leveraged to address legal loopholes and to craft arguments that engage the legal responsibility of states in the North. Third, we will discuss the political logic of responsibility shirking through multiparty, transnational cooperation, and of the countermoves by academic researchers.

Extended deadline for applications: 11 February 2024

 

About the Graduate School in Migration and Integration:

  • Our Graduate School courses are offered to PhD students
  • 5 weeks of full-time work for 7,5 ECTS. One intensive week at REMESO, Campus Norrköping, Linköping University or at SOCAV & CGM, University of Gothenburg
  • All courses are taught in English
  • Courses are usually examined by a paper assignment
  • Accommodation is provided for free to all PhD students who are admitted to our courses

For more information and the Application Form, please consult our web

Contact the course directors:

  • Eleni Karageorgiou, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  • Gregor Noll, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
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