Workshop on the Disintegration of Europe and the Refugee Crisis
Where: Columbia University
116th St. & Broadway
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Workshop on The Disintegration of Europe and the Refugee Crisis
Organized by Seyla Benhabib
In cooperation with the Legal Theory Workshop,
The European Legal Studies Center
and Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Theory (CCCCT)
April 16th 2018, 4:15-6:30 pm
Case Lounge, 7th Floor of Greene Hall, Room 701
No other issue has torn the fragile fabric of contemporary Europe apart as much as the so-called ‘refugee crisis.’ Populist movements on the march from France to the Netherlands, from Hungary to Italy all see national sovereignty as threatened by alien others – be they refugees, migrants and asylum seekers. For the first time since the second World War, an anti-immigrant and nationalist party, the AfD (Alternative fűr Deutschland), has entered the German Parliament with nearly 13% of the vote.
Who is a refugee? Who qualifies for asylum and why? Who is an immigrant as distinguished from a third-country national?
Presenters
Seyla Benhabib (Scholar in Residence, Columbia Law School, Spring 2018; Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Yale University)
Ayten Gűndogdu (Associate Professor of Political Science, Barnard College-Columbia University)
Paul Linden-Retek (Robina Foundation Visiting Human Rights Fellow, Yale Law School; PhD Candidate, Dept. of Political Science, Yale University)
Dana Schmalz (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gőttingen)