What factors shape European and EU responses to potential Afghan displacement and refugee movement towards the EU?
In this presentation, it will be argued that these responses form part of a repertoire of migration governance that is grounded in... more
Speaker: Andrew Geddes
24 November 2021 | 36 minutes
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What factors shape European and EU responses to potential Afghan displacement and refugee movement towards the EU?
In this presentation, it will be argued that these responses form part of a repertoire of migration governance that is grounded in how European and EU governance systems as organisational processes make sense of international migration. Rather than international migration in its various forms being something that simply happens to governance systems – an external challenge – to which they respond, governance systems are shown to be powerfully constitutive of international migration through their actions and inactions and through the categories and classifications that are developed at borders and boundaries (typically of states). These repertoires, it is argued, are grounded in understandings of the normality of migration to Europe that prefigure responses to crisis.
Repertoires of migration governance in the EU
Seminars
Is there a ‘Latin American’ approach to migration governance? How much do national policies converge/differ across the region today?
Latin America has developed new mechanisms of migration governance since the turn of the century. For some, these represented a distinctive approach as, in contrast to trends in the Global North, the region put an emphasis on migrant rights,... more
Speakers: Ana Margheritis and Luicy Pedroza
27 October 2021 | 46 minutes
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Latin America has developed new mechanisms of migration governance since the turn of the century. For some, these represented a distinctive approach as, in contrast to trends in the Global North, the region put an emphasis on migrant rights, relatively open border control measures, multilateral efforts to facilitate mobility and coordinate policies, and non-criminalization of irregular migration. As migration dynamics have rapidly evolved and become increasingly complex in the last two decades (including a dramatic refugee crisis triggered by massive intra-regional displacement of Venezuelans since 2015), such approach has lately appeared less distinct from other regions and acquired new components and variants across Latin American countries.
This presentation tackles such evolution, with an eye on the factors that induce or preclude policy convergence across the region. The analysis touches on several areas of migration governance, such as irregular immigration, border control, diaspora engagement policies, multilateral management of intra-regional mobility, and forced migration. Selected cases studies from Central and South America will be used to illustrate the main points.
Is there a ‘Latin American’ approach to migration governance? How much do national policies converge/differ across the region today?
Seminars
Survey research on the integration of ethnic and migrant minorities (EMMs) across Europe: Identifying research strengths and gaps with the survey metadata of the EMM Survey Registry
This seminar presents a detailed analysis of the survey metadata retrieved through the newly created EMM Survey Registry (compiled through COST Action 16111 Ethmigsurveydata and the H2020 project SSHOC) for nearly 1,200 surveys focusing on the... more
Speaker: Laura Morales
16 June 2021 | 36 minutes
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This seminar presents a detailed analysis of the survey metadata retrieved through the newly created EMM Survey Registry (compiled through COST Action 16111 Ethmigsurveydata and the H2020 project SSHOC) for nearly 1,200 surveys focusing on the integration of EMMs across 24 countries in Europe.
The study identifies the strengths and weaknesses of survey research in this field by paying attention to the survey and sample designs, the geographical coverage, the coverage of various subpopulations, the thematic coverage and the availability of documentation.
Survey research on the integration of ethnic and migrant minorities (EMMs) across Europe: Identifying research strengths and gaps with the survey metadata of the EMM Survey Registry
Lecture
The discursive construction of discontent: Varieties of populist anti-system ideas and discursive networks in Europe
In our first-ever hybrid lecture, live streamed from Luiss University, Vivien Schmidt presents a Paper that, using
discursive institutionalist analysis, theorises and investigates the varieties of populist anti-system... more
Speaker: Vivien Schmidt
11 June 2021 | 85 minutes
Full Description
In our first-ever hybrid lecture, live streamed from Luiss University, Vivien Schmidt presents a Paper that, using
discursive institutionalist analysis, theorises and investigates the varieties of populist anti-system ideas and
discursive networks in Europe – with illustrative examples from EU and national level. This lecture was sponsored by
the Journal of European Integration.
The discursive construction of discontent: Varieties of populist anti-system ideas and discursive networks in Europe
Roundtable
The EU and the pandemic: analytical perspectives and research agendas
In this roundtable, leading scholars of the EU engage in a reflexive and prospective dialogue on EU policy developments since the start of the pandemic. We ask them whether the handling of the pandemic challenges existing scholarly understandings of... more
Speakers: Sergio Fabbrini, Markus Jachtenfuchs, Brigid Laffan and Kalypso Nicolaidis
10 June 2021 | 103 minutes
Full Description
In this roundtable, leading scholars of the EU engage in a reflexive and prospective dialogue on EU policy developments since the start of the pandemic. We ask them whether the handling of the pandemic challenges existing scholarly understandings of the EU, the heuristics of their own work and could thus influence the research agendas of EU studies.
The EU and the pandemic: analytical perspectives and research agendas
House Series
Bridging the East-West divide
This lecture assembles scholars to discuss the extent to which both the East and the West are artificial constructs
and shortcuts attempting to simplify the complex reality of contemporary democracy, and how to move... more
Speakers: Lenka Bustikova, Ondrej Cisar, Fernando Casal Bertoa, Zsolt Enyedi, Petra Guasti and Milada Vachudova
27 May 2021 | 96 minutes
Full Description
This lecture assembles scholars to discuss the extent to which both the East and the West are artificial constructs
and shortcuts attempting to simplify the complex reality of contemporary democracy, and how to move beyond this
outdated paradigm – bridging the East-West divide.
Bridging the East-West divide
House Series
The Stein Rokkan Edition – Bridging the East-West Divide
Organised by Charles University as part of our 2021 Joint Sessions of Workshops, this lecture assembles scholars whose work transcends the East-West divide to discuss the extent to which both the East and the West are artificial constructs and... more
Speakers: Lenka Bustikova, Ondrej Cisar, Fernando Casal Bertoa, Zsolt Enyedi and Milada Vachudova
25 May 2021 | 97 minutes
Full Description
Organised by Charles University as part of our 2021 Joint Sessions of Workshops, this lecture assembles scholars whose work transcends the East-West divide to discuss the extent to which both the East and the West are artificial constructs and shortcuts attempting to simplify the complex reality of contemporary democracy and how to move beyond this outdated paradigm – bridging the East-West divide.
The speakers, eminent scholars of political parties, social movements, and democracy, touch on these issues in their work and discuss routes to balancing out general trends and unique features of the Central European region.
The Stein Rokkan Edition – Bridging the East-West Divide
Seminars
Why Do Migration and Diversity Policies so Often Derail? A complexity perspective on the governance of migration and diversity
There are few policy areas that are so often in some form of ‘crisis mode as migration and (migration-related) diversity policies. In this contribution, speaker Peter Scholten takes a complexity governance perspective on migration and diversity... more
Speaker: Peter Scholten
12 May 2021 | 35 minutes
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There are few policy areas that are so often in some form of ‘crisis mode as migration and (migration-related) diversity policies. In this contribution, speaker Peter Scholten takes a complexity governance perspective on migration and diversity policy.
Peter analyses why migration and diversity policies so often derail in their effort to come to terms with complexity. In this regard, he distinguishes various forms of alienation in policy processes, ranging from political forms of alienation to institutions, social and problem-related alienation.
Building on complexity literature, Peter also sketches the contours of a governance approach to embracing complexity, while establishing links with the literature on environmental and gender mainstreaming as illustrations of complexity governance.
Why Do Migration and Diversity Policies so Often Derail? A complexity perspective on the governance of migration and diversity
Seminars
What 2020 Revealed about Overseas American
The pandemic and election year of 2020 revealed both the vulnerability and the potential power of overseas Americans (US citizen migrants), once again emphasising their differential inclusion in the United States.
Providing votes that put... more
Speaker: Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfel
20 April 2021 | 28 minutes
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The pandemic and election year of 2020 revealed both the vulnerability and the potential power of overseas Americans (US citizen migrants), once again emphasising their differential inclusion in the United States.
Providing votes that put President Biden over the top in both Georgia and Arizona, and forcing the run-off election for Senator Ossoff in Georgia, overseas votes have never been more powerful. Yet at the same time, lack of universal healthcare in the US was the key reason that US citizens residing overseas did not respond to the US Government’s injunction to ‘Return Home NOW’ in March 2020 (data from small opt-in survey).
The differential inclusion of overseas Americans with respect to political engagement is known: voting in federal elections as individuals in one of 50 states, they form a diasporic block in one election only: the Democrats Abroad Presidential Primary. While they do not constitute, in the eyes of the United States population or government, a diaspora, they lobby and advocate on common issues of concern, including the requirement to file federal tax returns.
Structurally, the American federal political system does not allow overseas Americans to constitute a single constituency, but even so, they have been able to make their impact. In this unusual year of 2020 where so much campaigning and GOTV (get out the vote) activities moved online, diasporic voters were thus on equal virtual footing with those based in the United States, even as waves of the pandemic moved around the world.