Jean Monnet EU Migration Law and Governance Lecture Series 

Jean Monnet Lecture Series:

• This freely accessible, hybrid, 3-year Jean Monnet lecture series (2024-2026) will feature scholars working on (areas connected with) migration law and governance from interdisciplinary and/or critical perspectives, as well as relevant policy-makers, civil society, and societal actors.

• A number of lectures and debates provide insights to current legal and policy developments at EU level, such as the New Pact on Migration and Asylum. The series also features contributions on the interaction of EU migration law with international refugee, migration, statelessness, and human rights law. Finally, other talks provide novel conceptual insights to the study of migration, such as decolonial or interdisciplinary approaches.

• The lecture series is convened by Dr. Lilian Tsourdi as part of the Jean Monnet Chair on EU Migration Law and Governance she holds at the Faculty of Law. The series is organised in cooperation with the research centers and groups MCEL, MACIMIDE and Glaw-NET. 

We cordially invite you to the upcoming lecture of the Jean Monnet EU Migration Law and Governance Lecture Series.  On 14 October our speaker is Dr Diego Acosta, Professor of European and Migration Law, University of Bristol (UK). Director Global Migration Chair, Nebrija University, Madrid (Spain). Lecture title: The Changing Global Migration Law: Free Movement Regimes and the Creation of the New Migrant.

Abstract: Free Movement Regimes (FMRs) have become integral to global migration law. However, no commonly accepted definition exists and relatively limited critical analysis has been advanced on their implications. To fill this gap, based on an empirical description of their growth over time and space, we advance the first definition of FMRs that captures their differentia specifica. On this ground, we question how FMRs are reshaping migration and with which implications. Our claim is that FMRs not only provide great existential chances to individuals but also impose a transformation on them that is qualitatively different from classic migration dynamics. FMRs, thus, engender profound consequences that are not just incidental but rather structural to their very nature. Namely, FMRs are contributing to the creation of a new anthropological figure whose socio-political effects on national, international, and global polities are yet to be properly explored: the ‘New Migrant’.

Drinks will be served after the lecture.

The series will take place physically and online. The Zoom link for the online sessions will be distributed later.