"Deserving or Undeserving Migrants? The Significance of the Concept of the Refugee"
Workshops, conferences 2016
- Date: Nov 9, 2016
- Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
- Room: Library Hall
For more details please contact recke(at)mmg.mpg.de.
Introduction – Ayelet Shachar, Director of the Department of Ethics, Law and Politics at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
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2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
REFUGEES: HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES
Discussant: Sinem Adar, University of Göttingen, Lichtenberg-Kolleg
Maximilian Scholz (MPI-MMG):
From Thebes to Prussia: The Arrival of the Refugee in European History
Benjamin Boudou (MPI-MMG):
Giving Shelter or Granting Rights? Refugees and the Rhetoric of Hospitality
Bouke De Vries (MPI-MMG):
Do Refugees Have a Moral Right to Admission?
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3:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
REFUGEES AND THE LAW
Discussant: Roman Lehner, University of Göttingen
Stefan Schlegel (MPI-MMG):
Binary Rules in a Gradual Reality: How Refugee Law Relies on Bright Lines That Aren’t There
Dana Schmalz (Cardozo School of Law):
Beyond the Binarism of Global and Local: The Concept of the Refugee as a Basis for Claims to Democratic Membership