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Holot Detention Centre, Credit: Noureldin Musa [LINK!]

Seminar: ‘No Asylum for ‘infiltrators’: Eritrean and Sudanese Nationals in Israel’

by Reuven Ziegler

2 June, 2015

NCDH 609, McGill University Faculty of Law —

In this talk, Reuven Ziegler explores the precarious status of Eritrean and Sudanese nationals in Israel. Having crossed the Israeli-Egyptian border without authorisation and not through an official border crossing, Israeli law defines such individuals as ‘infiltrators’, a charged term which dates back to border-crossings into Israel by Palestinian Fedayeen in the 1950s. Eritreans and Sudanese nationals constitute over 90 percent of ‘infiltrators’ in Israel. Their livelihood is curtailed through hostility, sanctions, and detention, while Israel refrains from deporting them to their respective countries of origin, recognising that such forced removal could expose them to risks to their lives and/or freedom. The talk argues that the regularisation of asylum in Israel, including legal recognition of ‘refugee’, ‘asylum-seeker’, and ‘beneficiary of subsidiary protection’ statuses, is long due.

Based on a forthcoming article to appear in the Journal of Immigration Asylum and Nationality Law.

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Facilitating Mobility, Fostering Diversity: The Challenges of Contemporary Migration Policies in a Free-Trade Context

Symposium & Seminars

The week of Monday, February 16, 2015, the Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law hosted a delegation of professors and PhD students from the University of Bern’s Faculty of Law and World Trade Institute for a series of seminars and events concerning the intersection between migration and international trade law and policy.

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Slavery Old and New: Labour Exploitation Through the Ages and Around the Globe

Seminar Series

This joint research initiative, a collaboration between institutes at York and McGill Universities, examines the legal conceptualization of labour exploitation. Through an interdisciplinary, transnational and historical methodology, it draws on a variety of disciplines, spaces in time, and places around the world, to explore law’s understanding of “labour exploitation” and its relationship to society and practices.

For the 2014-15 academic year, the series is co-presented by three organizations: York University’s Harriet Tubman Institute, and the McGill University Faculty of Law’s Institute of Comparative Law, Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law. A fourth organization Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory will join for the fourth installment in this year’s series.

Labour Migration, Development & Human Rights

Seminar Series

This lecture series aims to provide a platform for emerging and established scholars to share their research and perspectives on issues relevant to labour migration, development and human rights. The lecture series will cover a wide range of topics, and approach the subjects from a diverse body of theoretical and disciplinary frameworks. This project further aims to provide a space in which a wide variety of individuals whose work interacts with these themes can come together in conversation about the ideas and approaches emerging in respect of labour migration, development and human rights.