Tuesday Colloquium - Work in Progress01/23/18
EU-Turkey Refugee Deal and the Changing Paradigms of Refugee Law
Associate Professor of Public International Law
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Born in 1971 in Ankara, Turkey
Studied Public International Law at Ankara University and at Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas
The EU-Turkey Deal was agreed to on 18 March 2016. It was presented as the only possible solution to the so-called refugee crisis and was designed to reduce the number of migrants crossing into Europe from Turkey.
I am interested in a critical legal analysis of this deal because I think that it can help us to understand the changing legal paradigms of refugee law and the current politics of legality as articulated with respect to the refugee issue. My research aims to investigate the role of law in construction of the politically useful "refugee crisis." I study the EU-Turkey Refugee Deal as a legal artifact where Turkeys authoritarian and the EUs (il)liberal practices converge to articulate the politics of (il)legality in the exercise of sovereign power within what are finally lawless structures.
Kivilcim, Zeynep (
London,
2017)
A gendered approach to the Syrian refugee crisis
Routledge studies in development, mobilities and migration
Kivilcim, Zeynep (
2014)
Human rights, asylum and migration in Turkey
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EU-Turkey Refugee Deal and the Changing Paradigms of Refugee Law
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