MIGRATION AS A LEGAL AND POLITICAL PROCESS

A NETWORK FOR MIGRATION RESEARCHERS AT UPPSALA UNIVERSITY

Migration as a legal and political process is a cross-cutting initiative where several faculties and departments collaborate to improve and deepen current specialist competence on migration at Uppsala University.

Migration is one of the major social challenges of our time. This was highlighted not least by the migration crisis of 2015. Decision makers need a solid knowledge base in order to meet these challenges. The network brings together researchers from different disciplines who approach legal and political dimensions of migration in a number of ways. We also want to contribute to increased collaboration with non-academic actors (such as civil society organisations and authorities) to create the conditions for a more evidence-based debate on migration than is currently the case. Traditional migration research has often started from the notion of migration as movement in space, over borders. The perspective of this network on migration as a process is innovative in that our starting point is that where a person is not necessarily decisive for her migration status – time, for example, plays an important role in the identification of who is counted as a migrant, as well as where, how and why this is the case.

Network activities was funded by CIRCUS

For more information on the network and activities organised by the network contact coordinator: Rebecca Thorburn Stern, Department of Law, or CRS director Martha Middlemiss Lé Mon