EUTopia CoLeCo Legal History: Connectedness in Legal History

 EUTopia Peak Event Report: University of Warwick The topic of labour migration was certainly a thought provoking one. With the United Kingdom being an island territory, international migration from overseas seemed a logical place to start. When classifying the term Europe in history, it is important to also consider those countries that were under colonial governance and hence made up part of the British state. Therefore, for some of us, the topic of migration from the British Caribbean was one that was close to home. On the other hand, engagement with Latin American studies at Warwick prompted some of our historians to research the movement of peoples from a variety of South and Central American countries. The initial research process With the EUTopia summit being a predominantly legal history event, we began by accessing unique source material at the University of Warwick Modern Records Centre which offers a plethora of translated legal documents for us to analyse. As historians, an

 On the 9th of March, the Belgian delegation (= dr Bruyère, Professor Dhondt, and myself, a third-year Law student at the Free University of Brussels) arrived in Slovenia to attend the peak event that we had been looking forward to since September. Just like me, students from different universities all over Europe have been working on a personal research project on “labour migration”. This broad and relevant subject inspired all of us to come up with the most unexpected topics, which resulted in a highly engaging day. The remarkable experience left me feeling much wiser than when I first set foot in the beautiful country. The presented topics and the used methodologies varied widely and included Moroccan immigration to France in the 20 th century, an oral history of the Guyanese experience in their settlement in the UK, surrogacy as labour, Slovenian straw hat artisans as labour migrants to the rest of Europe and even the US, Chilean refugee after the coup in 1973, Portuguese migra

  Dober Dan, Hello ! We are students of Cergy Paris University and w e had the pleasure to come to Ljubljana for the Eutopia Event in March 2023. ●       Why did you join ? Our professor Mrs Argyriadis-Kervegan proposed that we take part in this experience. We joined this project because we found the concept and the subject “Work and Immigration” really interesting and it deserved to be highlighted. We wanted to have an experience in English and meet people from different countries. Here is a little video to show what the trip looked like from our perspective 🙂   : ●        What are you working on ? We splitted into three different groups and each one worked on a specific theme : ❖    The Moroccan immigration , by  Ines Moustaghfir It’s because my subject had a link with what my family experienced, that I decided to get a little closer to the Moroccan immigration that happened in France from the 20th century until today. I drew my research from several books and we

Peak Event Report  The port of Trieste, the most important port of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was not only a window to the New World for many individuals from Central Europe, but also the cradle of labour migration (or, rather, mobility) as a desirable destination for merchants. Sadly, it was also city from which labourers and intellectuals fled to what was then Kingdom of Yugoslavia during the times Trieste was wrapped in a veil of Italian fascism. As hosts, we were glad to had had our fellow EUTOPIANs at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana and to had taken them to Trieste, hoping to intrigue them by the spirits of both of the cities.  Day one  Although we have interacted with our colleagues from other universities via Microsoft Teams, the virtual interactions can never truly replicate the efficiency, sense of camaraderie and sincerity that is present in face-to-face meetings. It was with great pleasure and excitement that we welcomed our fellow EUTOPIANs to our c

(image: view of Lisbon around 1700; source: Biblioteca Nacional de España/Europeana )           We opened our computers, and connected ourselves to the meeting – ‘ Please wait for the host to start this meeting ’.           Unfortunately, we didn’t have the chance to go with our colleagues from the other institutions to Ljubljana these 3 days. It was really a shame, since the Peak Event, as the name implies, should mark the apex of this learning experience: it is finally the moment in which we see the faces and bodies of those who we have seen on cameras for the past couple of months; the concrete presence of the brains and hands whose words, ideas and opinions we have read, heard and discussed since the beginning of this educational journey; it is, in sum, the most memorable part of this work – ‘ You have been successfully connected to the meeting ’.           Nonetheless, we still had the opportunity to attend this reunion in a virtual way, which, although not being the same as bei