Call for Papers! Who rules over migrants?! Autocratic elements in migration policies! Submit Now!
University of Leiden, The Netherlands! 14-15 November 2024
We are pleased to invite paper proposals for the 1.5-day interdisciplinary workshop: “Who rules over migrants? Autocratic elements in migration policies”, that will take place at the University of Leiden on 14 and 15 November 2024. Across the world, governments and political leaders – both democratic and autocratic –, are becoming more and more creative in mobilizing policy tools that circumvent judicial or democratic scrutiny in order to enact migration policies in line with their economic, geopolitical or ideological goals.
In this context, we have noted the use of what we call autocratic policy tools – a tendency towards a concentration of the power to make laws and rules in one hand, the hand that also executes the law. This is exemplified by straightforward ‘rule by decree’ situations, but also by very broad delegations of lawmaking power to the executive, without any meaningful constraints, or by executive policies that entirely lack a legal basis or judicial oversight.
We welcome researchers at all career stages – from doctoral researchers to senior academics – to examine these questions with us and advance our understanding of autocratic elements in migration policy from the perspectives of political science and law.
If you are interested in participating in the workshop, please send us your abstract by the 15th of June 2024 through submitting this online form.
Abstracts should be no longer than 400 words and set out the topic, main argument and methodology of the paper.
Applicants will be notified by the end of June 2024 of the outcome of their submission. Ahead of the workshop, by November 1st at the latest, participants will be asked to circulate their full draft papers. Publication plans will be discussed at the workshop, but we intend to publish revised versions of selected papers in a special issue of a leading journal.
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