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EUTOPIA COLECO POSITION PAPER: The Legal History of Labour Migration (2022-2023)

Connected Learning Community Legal History 2022-2023   The EUTopia Connected Learning Community Legal History is working around the theme labour migration during the academic year 2022-2023. Labour migration The legal framework governing transnational, intra- or inter-imperial flows of human migration is an ideally suitable topic for our student driven community, which connects the campuses of the VUB (Brussels, Prof. Frederik Dhondt), CY Paris (Cergy, Prof. Caroula Argyriadis-Kervégan), Warwick (dr. Jane Bryan/dr. Rosie Doyle), Lisbon (Nova University, Prof. Christiana Nogueira da Silva) and Ljubljana (Prof. Katja Skrubej). Migration is very present and visible in our contemporary European cities and universities alike. It is linked with   memory and intercultural exchange but also with relations of colonial/imperial exploitation [1] and the question of race, gender [2] and social hierarchy . Economic motives can act as push as well as pull-factors, [3] alongside...