Jean Monnet Lecture Series:

• This freely accessible, hybrid, 3-year Jean Monnet lecture series (2024-2026) will feature scholars working on (areas connected with) migration law and governance from interdisciplinary and/or critical perspectives, as well as relevant policy-makers, civil society, and societal actors.

• A number of lectures and debates provide insights to current legal and policy developments at EU level, such as the New Pact on Migration and Asylum. The series also features contributions on the interaction of EU migration law with international refugee, migration, statelessness, and human rights law. Finally, other talks provide novel conceptual insights to the study of migration, such as decolonial or interdisciplinary approaches.

• The lecture series is convened by Dr. Lilian Tsourdi as part of the Jean Monnet Chair on EU Migration Law and Governance she holds at the Faculty of Law. The series is organised in cooperation with the research centers and groups MCEL, MACIMIDE and Glaw-NET. 

We cordially invite you to the upcoming lecture of the Jean Monnet EU Migration Law and Governance Lecture Series.  On 31 May our speaker is Tesseltje de Lange, Professor of European Migration Law, Centre for Migration Law at Radboud University Nijmegen. Lecture title: Towards policy coherence in legal migration pathways to the EU. Lilian Tsourdi will chair the session and Dr. Pauline Melin will be a discussant.

Abstract: To prepare for the future, the EU and its Member States need to build campuses, not camps. In this lecture I will critically assess the regulation of legal migration pathways into EU with a focus on the recently amended Blue Card and the Single Permit Directives, and the proposed EU Talent Pool which is pushing for EU Talent Partnerships, in search for policy coherence with labour market policies in- and outside the EU as well as people’s right for dignity, for self-determination.

The lecture thus brings together early findings from the ongoing HorizonEurope funded research projects DignityFIRM and GS4S: a Global Strategy for Skills, Migration and Development.

The series will take place physically and online. The Zoom link for the online sessions will be distributed later.