taz Talk meets Jüdisches Museum Berlin: Repressive Migrationskontrolle & autoritärer Umbau in Europa

For three decades, European asylum and migration policy has been characterized by simultaneous openness and isolation: Communitization liberalized the right to asylum in many states, but at the same time created repressive migration control with Frontex and migration pacts.

Against the backdrop of Jewish migration history, our guests in the Digital Lecture Series will discuss with Dinah Riese how the foundations for humanitarian refugee law have been developed since the 1930s. This reveals historical achievements that are increasingly being called into question today.

Which experiences from the past and which legal or philosophical perspectives can help to transcend current boundaries in thinking about migration? And where can approaches for a more open future be found in the here and now?

In conversation:

🐾 Maximilian Pichl is a legal and political scientist. He is Professor of Social Work Law at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences and previously taught at Rhein Main University of Applied Sciences, Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and the University of Kassel. From 2015 to 2017, he was a legal policy advisor for Pro Asyl e.V.

🐾 Dinah Riese is head of the domestic department at taz. Before that, she was editor for migration and integration. She has received several awards for her research and reporting on the so-called ban on abortion advertising, Section 219a of the German Criminal Code. Her interview with survivors of the attack in Halle was nominated for the Reporter:innenpreis.

This taz Talk is sponsored by the Berthold Leibinger Stiftung.