Agenda

Critical Think Tank Movie Night: Souleymane’s Story, 24feb 17:15u Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen Grotius Building room 1.075

We will be screening Souleymane’s Story, followed by a guided discussion engaging the film from a range of critical perspectives. Our conversation will explore migration law, the gig economy, the limits of humanitarianism, and the global inequalities shaping contemporary migration governance.

Souleymane’s Story follows a Guinean immigrant navigating life in Paris while preparing for a make-or-break asylum interview. The movie weaves together the daily struggle in the gig-economy with the bureaucratic and psychological pressures of asylum procedures, offering an intimate and unsparing portrayal of undocumented migrants.

Please register here.   

Book Presentation: The Way Out: Justice in the Queer Search for Refuge, 25feb 16-17:30u UvA A’dam

The book examines the complexities of queer and trans displacement around the world. Over the last forty years, international asylum practices have expanded to include the queer and trans displaced. At least thirty-seven countries now recognize LGBTIQ refugees on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, with some states providing specialized support. Yet amid this expansion, backlash has intensified against refugee protection as well as the hard-earned rights of LGBTIQ people. In this disquieting context, the protection of LGBTIQ refugees remains partial and exclusionary.

Centering personal narratives of LGBTIQ refugees, The Way Out exposes the shortcomings of an international protection regime that is unable to address the harms that drive displacement. Rebecca Buxton and Samuel Ritholtz's analysis of the stakes of queer and trans inclusion in accounts of displacement justice offers a vibrant example of theory brought to life.

https://arc-m.uva.nl/content/events/2026/02/the-way-out-justice-in-the-q...

Wake Detentiecentrum Zeist 1 maart 2026, 16:30u

Elke 1e zondag van de maand staan we stil bij de situatie van vreemdelingen in het detentiecentrum Zeist.

Kom ook, Neem mensen mee, Neem bloemen mee. Neem licht mee.

http://www.wakezeist.nl/97692797
info: 0629025008 en www.wakezeist.nl of fb

Wake detentiecentrum Rotterdam, 1 maart 2026, 16-17u

Elke eerste zondag van de maand is er een wake bij het Detentiecentrum bij Rotterdam-The Hague Airport (Vliegveld Zestienhoven). Je bent van harte welkom om samen met ons d.m.v. liederen, gedichten, gebeden en verhalen uitdrukking te geven aan je schaamte en onvrede over het Nederlandse vreemdelingenbeleid.

Locatie: Detentiecentrum bij Rotterdam-The Hague Airport (vliegveld Zestienhoven), Portelabaan 7, 3045 AT Rotterdam
https://www.maraprojecten.nl/agenda/wake-bij-detentiecentrum-rotterdam-30/

Intervision meeting: Applications for international protection based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity, 5 March 9:15-13:30u, Brussels

This intervision focuses on applications for international protection based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity (SOGI). We bring together legal expertise, academic research, lived experiences and professional practice. The sessions will create space for exchange between civil society organisations with expertise in supporting SOGI applicants for international protection, and insights drawn from research specifically focused on SOGI-based asylum claims.

The intervision will be held in English. Registrations are open until 1 March 2026.
https://nansen-refugee.be/en/2026/02/04/intervision-applications-for-international-protection-based-on-sexual-orientation-and-or-gender-identity-5-march-2026/

Seminar: toekomst van de LVV, 23mrt 9-12u Utrecht

In september 2024 besloot het kabinet Schoof dat de opvang in de LVV (Landelijke Vreemdelingen­voorziening) per 1 januari 2025 moest worden beëindigd. Kort daarop werden verschillende procedures gestart waarin de rechtmatigheid van die beëindiging ter discussie stond, teneinde te voorkomen dat vreemdelingen geen opvang meer zouden krijgen.

Op 26 mei 2025 heeft de vreemdelingenkamer van de rechtbank Amsterdam het beroep van een aantal vreemdelingen gegrond verklaard en de minister opgedragen om de opvang te continueren. Tegen deze uitspaak is in juni 2025 hoger beroep ingesteld bij de Afdeling bestuursrechtspraak van de Raad van State. 

In dit seminar zal de stand van zaken worden geschetst en de verschillende invalshoeken van betrokken instanties besproken.

https://www.uu.nl/agenda/bed-bad-brood-hoe-nu-verder

Training Juridische aspecten Preventie Huiselijk Geweld Ongedocumenteerden en Migranten met afhankelijke Status, 13 april 13-16u VW den Haag

De training biedt kennis over de specifieke risico’s en belemmeringen die ongedocumenteerde personen en migranten met een afhankelijke verblijfsstatus ervaren bij het zoeken van hulp, evenals inzicht in relevante wet- en regelgeving. Daarnaast ontvang je praktische handvatten voor het herkennen van signalen en het vervullen van jouw signalerende rol als professional, binnen de mogelijkheden en grenzen van je functie.

Aanmelden kan via deze link.

Workshop: Bordered Care - Practices, Power, and Resistance at the Edge, 11-12 May Oxford

This year’s Border Criminologies Annual Workshop centres on the theme of care in contexts of border governance, migration control, and state violence. While the politics of health and healthcare have often been treated as secondary to questions of security, detention, and deportation, this workshop brings care to the centre of critical border scholarship. We ask: what does it mean to speak of “care” in spaces of exclusion, control, and punishment? What forms of care can emerge in the act of documentation? How is care mobilised, denied, or weaponised in border regimes, and how might practices of care—both institutional and informal—reconfigure our understandings of state responsibility, ethics, and resistance?

https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/event/border-criminologies-annual-workshop-2026-bordered-care-practices-power-and

Workshop: The Promise of the Pact? What the EU promised but the Pact on Migration and Asylum does not deliver, 22 May, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

Although Member States have to embed the Pact into their own national legislation and practice by June 2026, this workshop critically aims to explore the issues that the EU Pact does not address, but which the EU legislator promised to solve in the Pact. Think of themes like human trafficking, responsibility sharing at the global level, international partnerships, integration, legal migration and more.  

https://www.ru.nl/en/about-us/events/one-day-workshop-the-promise-of-the-pact-what-the-eu-promised-but-the-pact-on-migration-and-asylum-does-not-deliver

Conference: Crimmigration in an Age of Authoritarian Drift, 5 – 7 juli Leiden

From the detention and deportation drives in El Salvador and Tunisia, to the carceral deterrence strategies of Australia and the United Kingdom, to the Trump administration’s family separation policies and the hardline border regimes of Hungary, Italy, and Poland, punitive migration control is increasingly deployed as a means of political legitimation. Across both the Global North and the Global South, authoritarian logics of mobility governance are used to surveil, marginalise, and contain targeted populations—often along racialised, ethnic, and class lines.

This conference explores how crimmigration operates as a tool of governance and political performance in democratic, hybrid, and authoritarian settings.
https://www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2026/07/cinets-2026