Humanitarian Visas and the External Dimensions of the EU Migration and Asylum Policy

Workshop – Humanitarian Visas and the External Dimensions of the EU Migration and Asylum Policy
For many years people fleeing from war zones and crisis areas have looked to Europe in search of refuge. But because an application for asylum can only be filed in person within the territory of an EU member state, thousands of individuals embark on dangerous journeys across the Mediterranean or the Balkans. One possibility that could enable a less risky passage to Europe would be to issue humanitarian visas. What would the humanitarian visa mean in practice and does it offer a meaningful alternative to current EU asylum and migration policy? This question was the topic of a conference entitled “Humanitarian visas and the external dimension of the EU migration and asylum policy,” which took place on 17 and 18 May 2018 at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

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Workshop – Humanitarian Visas and the External Dimensions of the EU Migration and Asylum Policy
For many years people fleeing from war zones and crisis areas have looked to Europe in search of refuge. But because an application for asylum can only be filed in person within the territory of an EU member state, thousands of individuals embark on dangerous journeys across the Mediterranean or the Balkans. One possibility that could enable a less risky passage to Europe would be to issue humanitarian visas. What would the humanitarian visa mean in practice and does it offer a meaningful alternative to current EU asylum and migration policy? This question was the topic of a conference entitled “Humanitarian visas and the external dimension of the EU migration and asylum policy,” which took place on 17 and 18 May 2018 at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.
Marie-Claire Foblets (MPI for Social Anthropology, Department ‘Law & Anthropology’, Halle, Germany) welcomes the participants of the workshop 'Humanitarian Visas and the External Dimensions of the EU Migration and Asylum Policy' ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Winfried Kluth (Professor at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) introduces the workshop ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Luc Leboeuf (Research Fellow at the MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany) ■ Title of his talk: Humanitarian visas and the external dimension of EU migration and asylum law ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Burkhard Hess (Director of the MPI for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law, Luxembourg) ■ Chair of Panel 1: Humanitarian visas and obligations under international and EU law ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Dirk Hanschel (Professor at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Nico Mol (Head of Division at the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France) ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Stephanie Law (Senior Research Fellow at the MPI for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law, Luxembourg) ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Sylvie Sarolea (Professor at the University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium) ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Tristan Wibault (Lawyer at the Bar of Brussels, Belgium) ■ Title of his talk: Making the case for the humanitarian visa ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Constantin Hruschka (Senior Research Fellow at the MPI for Social Law and Social Policy, Munich, Germany) ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Katia Bianchini (Research Fellow at the MPI for Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany) ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Pauline Endres de Oliveira (PhD Candidate at the University of Giessen, Germany) ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Serge Bodart (Judge, First President of the Council for Alien Law Litigation, Brussels, Belgium) ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
François Crépeau (Professor at the McGill University, Montreal, Canada, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants) ■ Title of his talk: What could be the role of humanitarian visas in the external dimension of the EU migration and asylum policy? ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Daniel Thym (Professor at the University of Konstanz, Germany) ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Catharina Ziebritzki (Research Fellow (PhD Candidate) at the MPI for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany) ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Karel Uyttendaele (Coordinator of the ‘circular migration’ project, Erondegem, Belgium) ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Sophie Nakueira (Research Fellow at the MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany) ■ Photo: © Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Participants of the workshop 'Humanitarian Visas and the External Dimensions of the EU Migration and Asylum Policy' 17–18 May 2018 at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale)