Resettlement to the UK: Between Sovereigns revisited
Dr Emma Haddad (Former Director, Refugee Resettlement Operations, UK Home Office)
Public Seminar Series
Wednesday, 10 February 2016, 5pm to 6.30pm
Seminar Room 3, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB
Hosted by Refugee Studies Centre
RSC Public Seminar Series, Hilary Term: 'Destination: Europe'
Convenors: Cathryn Costello and Stephanie Motz
In the absence of safe and legal routes to claim asylum, refugees currently make their own way to Europe, risking their lives in the process. They face many European crises: humanitarian ones at their places of arrival and border crossings; legal ones as some states flout their international and EU obligations, and security ones as rational fears become unduly associated with refugees. There are, of course, many Europes: the EU (with its elaborate Common European Asylum System); the wider Europe of the Council of Europe and pan-European human rights protection, encompassing Turkey; and the Europe of the Mediterranean, Mare Nostrum. Faced with the arrival of refugees in large numbers, the reactions and responsibilities of these various Europes will be considered. Reactions range from small scale offers of relocation and resettlement; to military responses to human smuggling in Libya; to border closures of the Balkans and Central and Eastern Europe; and moves to accommodate large new refugee populations in Germany, Sweden and the other main destination states. The series will examine the implications for European integration, European values and the global refugee protection regime, taking a long and broad view. Legal, historical and political perspectives will be explored.
This seminar series complements Issue 51 of Forced Migration Review, published on 5 January 2016 and also titled 'Destination: Europe'.
About the speaker
Emma Haddad is the former Director of Refugee Resettlement Operations at the UK Home Office. Prior to this she held various Director posts at the UK Home Office and Border Agency, including asylum and international policy. She also spent two years at the European Commission as an expert in the external dimension of migration. She earned her PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and her Masters from the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of The Refugee in International Society: Between Sovereigns (Cambridge: 2008).