Recognising Refugees: Comparative and Transnational Insights into Asylum under Pressure
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- Recognising Refugees: Comparative and Transnational Insights into Asylum under Pressure
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Recognising Refugees:
Comparative and Transnational Insights into Asylum under Pressure
Convenors: Professors Cathryn Costello (UCD) and Rebecca Hamlin (UMass)
In association with the Volkswagen Foundation European Challenges Project AFAR (Algorithmic Fairness for Asylum-Seekers and Refugees). The aim of the Recognising Refugees workshop is to bring together a global group of legal scholars at diverse career stages to explore admission and refugee recognition practices with comparative or transnational approaches.
In association with the AFAR project, the partners, Professor Rebecca Hamlin (University of Massachusetts Amherst Migration Working Group), and Professor Cathryn Costello (Sutherland School of Law, UCD).
Participation in the Friday workshop is by invitation only. If the subject matter is relevant to your work or research, please send us a request to participate by email ((opens in a new window)jonathan.wren@ucd.ie) explaining your reasons for wanting to attend. It is expected that all participants will read the papers and engage actively in the discussion.
Venue: Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin
Thursday, 10 April 2025
| 15:00—17:00 |
‘Methods Mixer’ w/ Professors Rebecca Hamlin & Sean Rehaag |
Harty Boardroom |
| 18:00—19:15 |
Asylum Under Pressure - Public Lecture & Panel Discussion Professor Sean Rehaag (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University): ‘Opening the Black Box of Refugee Adjudication: Using Computational Tools to Examine Canadian Refugee Law at Scale’ W/ Panel Response from Professor Rebecca Hamlin (UMass Amherst), Hilkka C. Becker (International Protection Appeals Tribunal), & Professor Cathryn Costello (UCD) Chaired by Associate Professor Liam Thornton (UCD) |
Mason Hayes Lecture Theatre, |
| 19:15—19:45 |
Post-Lecture Reception |
Atrium |
| 19:45—21:30 |
Speakers’ Dinner |
tbc |
Friday 11 April, Research Workshop, Harty Board Room
9:15am Registration with Tea/Coffee/Pastries, Atrium & Harty Boardroom
Panel 1 10:00—12:00
Chair: Professor Cathryn Costello
Dr Hiro Fujibayashi (Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute) [Online Presentation]
‘Evaluating Refugee Rights Practices in Developing Countries: New Cross-National Data on Forced Migrants’ Access to Socio-Economic Rights’
Dr Natalia Cintra (University of Southampton) & Dr Patricia Nabuco Martuscelli (University of Sheffield)
‘Recognising Refugees in Brazil: The Political Use of the `Severe and Generalised Violation of Human Rights` Recognition Criterion’
Dr Solomon Momoh (The University of Law) & Dr Chiara Scissa (University of Bologna)
‘Refugee Status Determination and Selective Admissions: Comparative Insights from Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa’
Dr Valentin Feneberg (Leuphana University of Lüneburg)
‘Varieties of Complementary Protection. A Comparison of the Responses of European Asylum Regimes to the 2021 Taliban Takeover in Afghanistan’
12:00-13:00 Buffet Lunch
Panel 2 – 13:00—15:00
Chair: Professor Sean Rehaag
Maya Ellen Hertz (Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen)
‘Are credibility assessments in line with established psychological literature?’
Asta S. Stage Jarlner, Maya Ellen Hertz, Marieke Anne Heyl, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and William Hamilton Byrne (University of Copenhagen).
‘A Blank Space in Refugee Law: A Systematic Literature Review of the Role of Credibility in Asylum Decisions’
Mitali Agrawal (University of Copenhagen)
‘Understanding the influence of UNHCR’s Amicus Curiae briefs’
Dr Nikolas Feith Tan (University of Melbourne) [Online Presentation]
‘Emerging practices of manifestly well-founded asylum procedures: toward fair, effective and functioning asylum systems?’
15:00 – 15:15 Coffee Break
Panel 3 – 15:15—17:15
Chair: Professor Rebecca Hamlin
Prof. Dr. Natascha Verena Christine Zaun & Dr Valentin Feneberg (Leuphana University of Lüneburg)
‘The Institutionalization of Judicial Independence and Its Impact on Refugee Recognition’
Dr Natalie Welfens (University of Duisburg-Essen)
‘The Chain of Refugee Admission’
Dr Nicole I.J. Hoellerer (University of Bristol), Dr Raawiyah Rifath (University of Exeter), Dr Jessica Hambly (The Australian National University, Canberra), Professor Nick Gill (University of Exeter)
‘The problematic Global Northern lens in RSD in the UK, France and Germany: Heteronormativity and sexual diversity’
Dr Ivan Souza Vieira (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) & Dr Elena Sánchez-Montijano (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas)
‘Technology and Asylum in Mexico: The Impact of Digitalization on Migration Management in Contexts of Violence and Inequality’
17:15 – 17:30 Final Discussions, next steps and workshop close