Conference – Time, Temporalities & Migration Law

Time is a key governmental technique to regulate migration. Power operates as much through temporal devices as it does through spatial control. Selection of migrants is made by accelerating or decelerating procedures for certain categories of migrants with the effect that some have to wait a long time, while others are fast-tracked. Our focus is on how time and temporalities are used in legal frameworks.

The conference investigates the varied interpretations of time in migration, identifies temporal legal strategies employed to regulate people’s movement, and assesses how time influences notions of justice in migration regulation. After the successful international conference ‘Temporalities in Migration Law’ held at the Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, on 1-2 June 2023, this conference is a second event in the same series.

Keynotes by Ayelet Shachar (Toronto), Anuscheh Farahat (Vienna) and Shahram Khosravi (Stockholm)

The conference is jointly organised by the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Law at Uppsala University, the Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Uppsala Forum for Democracy, Peace and Justice and the Swedish Institute of International Law. It benefits from funding from the research project funded by the Swedish Research Council 'Stability of Status in Sweden', Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation and Wenner-Gren Foundations.