Immigrants’ Settlement in the EU’s South: Comparative Experiences (05/27/21)
Join us on Thursday, May 27 at 12:30 PM for Immigrants’ Settlement in the EU’s South: Comparative Experiences. This event launches a new webinar series on Immigrants’ Settlement in the EU. Our first session will focus on Italy and Spain.
Participants:
Olivia Britton is a PhD candidate in Political Science and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at Boston University. Her work examines how different integration approaches affect refugee populations and shape their experiences in their country of resettlement. She has done extensive fieldwork in Calabria, Italy, where she researched and analyzed how neoliberalism has reshaped humanitarian aid efforts and transformed refugee management into a means to revitalize abandoned small Italian towns economically. As the recipient of a Fulbright grant to the European Union (Schuman), Olivia will spend the 2021-2022 academic year conducting research on refugee resettlement in Italy and Spain.
Manuela Consito is Associate Professor in Administrative Law and a member of the Board of the Human Rights and Migration Law Clinic of the at the School of Law of the University of Turin, where she completed her PhD in public law in 2005. Manuela is interested in social assistance services and healthcare systems. Her books examine the rules governing the migration of professionals and the principle of mutual recognition of professional qualifications, the accreditation of social services and healthcare providers by studying the relations between accreditation, public procurement and concession, and the administrative legal issues arising when a country receives asylum seekers.
Dorothy Estrada-Tanck is Professor of International Law at University of Murcia and a member of the UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls. She holds a PhD in Law and an LLM in Comparative, European and International Laws from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (EUI). Dorothy holds academic and professional experience in the UN, Inter-American and European human rights’ systems, in the topics of human security; violence against women; feminist legal theory; human rights of migrants, persons with disabilities and indigenous peoples; economic, social and cultural rights; transnational corporations and human rights; international trade law; and international criminal law.
When: May 27, 2021 12:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Topic: Immigrants’ Settlement in the EU’s South: Comparative Experiences
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