Event Highlights: Brexit, Citizenship, and Human Rights
In this virtual lecture, which took place on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, Iyiola Solanke, Professor in Law at the School of Law, University of Leeds, talks about the impact of Brexit on residency rights of non-EU nationals and how this affects the rights of EU citizens. Using an intersectional approach, Solanke focuses on the Zambrano families and how EU law has been used to grant EU rights to non-European migrants in the EU. She goes on to describe the hostile environment facing immigrants in the UK, the impacts of Brexit and the pandemic, the legislative and judicial responses, and finally, the EU settlement scheme.
Iyiola Solanke’s research and teaching focuses on EU Law, Anti-Discrimination law and Alternative Dispute Resolution. She is the author of four books, most recently Discrimination As Stigma (2017), where she puts forward a new paradigm for anti-discrimination law that focuses on discrimination as a virus. The book creates an anti-stigma principle and argues that a public health approach to tackling discrimination would be an effective method to defeat enduring inequality.