When: Friday, April 28, 2023, 10:00 AM - 5:15 PMWhere: Online/Room 2.10, Second Floor, School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS (via Westfield way)
This event is co-organised by (B)OrderS: Centre for the Legal Study of Borders and Migration and the Criminal Justice Centre. The workshop is co-convened with Dr Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi and Professor Valsamis Mitsilegas in collaboration with the GLaw-Net Research Network in collaboration with the Maastricht Centre for European Law of Maastricht University and University of Liverpool. See the previous Intertwining criminal justice and immigration control in the EU (GLaw) event.
Criminal law strategies are increasingly imported to preempt and manage immigration in the EU. Criminalisation of migration, or, as coined by Juliet Stumpf, ‘crimmigration’ broadly encompasses the entire arsenal of coercive measures stemming from the criminal justice system and currently available in the context of immigration enforcement, including deprivation of liberty (detention), preventive policing, deportation of migrants convicted of criminal offences, and the creation of an array of criminal offences (‘status crimes’) for migrants’ non-compliance with immigration legislation. This contamination of immigration law with measures traditionally falling within the realm of criminal law has progressively established a hybrid ‘criminal-type’ system of immigration control, whereby criminal law lends enforcement agencies and tools to administrative law, and provides a variety of sanctioning options. Notably, both migrants – particularly undocumented migrants – and those facilitating their entry or stay are targeted.
Given the highly dynamic nature of the phenomena due to the fast-changing regulatory framework, the emergence of (often inconsistent) case law as well as law enforcement practices at the margins of legality, this workshop revisits the theoretical, normative, and philosophical underpinnings of EU and national policies intertwining criminal and migration law. It also explores the practical use (and abuse) and impact on the protection of fundamental rights of migrants and the rule of law. The workshop will analyse migration control through criminal law from multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, providing a holistic understanding of the state of the art of ‘crimmigration’. It brings together scholars from different disciplines who are working towards the development of an edited collection with Routledge co-edited by Dr Niovi Vavoula (Senior Lecturer in Migration and Security at QMUL), Dr Lilian Tsourdi (Maastricht University) and Prof. Valsamis Mitsilegas (University of Liverpool).
Founded in 2022, the (B)OrderS: Centre for the Legal Study of Borders and Migration focuses on the study of bordering, ordering and othering processes through law. It constitutes an excellence hub for intellectual collaboration and evaluation of the role of law in the making and unmaking of borders and their impact on global (im)mobility. It connects scholars within and beyond Queen Mary Law School to harness existing inter- and multi-disciplinary research into law, borders and (im)mobility and shape future research and policy agendas in response to global challenges.
The Criminal Justice Centre (CJC) provides a forum for research and learning in all aspects of criminal justice. Our members are drawn from both the legal profession and academia. We provide advice and training to the legal profession, governments and judiciaries, author key publications on criminal justice, engage with the media, undertake collaborative research, supervise post-graduate research and regularly host seminars, lectures, workshops and conferences.