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EUTopia Connected Learning Community Legal History: The Virtual Exhibition "Labour Migration and Legal History 2022-2023"

  

Picture from: Tamino Petelinšek/STA, obtained: The EUTOPIA Week Diary in Ljubljana, DAY 2

 During the academic year 2022-2023, students from different campuses (Paris-Cergy, Ljubljana, Nova Lisboa, Warwick, VUB  regularly met online to discuss the CoLeCo Legal History's annual theme: labour migration. In November 2022, they were able to attend, live or asynchronously, Professor Cristiana Bastos's lecture on the historical anthropology of the racial construction of plantation labour. In March 2023, the students met up again in Ljubljana, where they were welcomed by Prof. Katja Skrubej and her team and had the opportunity to present the initial results of their research in archives, historiographical literature and legal doctrine. This event was the pinnacle of their experience in the EUTopia community: through scientific and human exchanges, they were able to bring together different European campuses and question their methods and angles of approach. Although they all had a common theme, their subjects were very varied. However, while they spanned the four corners of the globe, they highlighted common dynamics.

    As migrants were experiencing regional migration (Aljosa, Ajra) or transcontinental journeys, sometimes accross former colonial empires (Ash, Mayukha, Ines) for better opportunities, they faced xenophobia (Charlotte & Emma) or had to fit in existing segregationist structures (Rafael, Sofia, Vid). However, they fought for and ended up gaining increasing legal protection, either as workers (Guillaume, Lydia, Marianne) sometimes as qualified artisans or artists (Lovro & Flora) or as refugees (Nia & Luka). New forms of labour however, pose unusual legal challenges to be solved in the future (Yinka). 

    The students have done an amazing work. All of the EUTopia Team hope you will enjoy the results of their research through this virtual exhibition!

 

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