Between Protection and Harm: Negotiated Vulnerabilities in Asylum Laws and Bureaucracies

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Dr. Luc Leboeuf is a Head of Research Group in the Department of Law and Anthropology at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Germany and an Adjunct Professor in the law faculty at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain) Belgium where he teaches courses in EU and migration law. He holds a PhD in EU law from the UCLouvain (2015). Before engaging in interdisciplinary research at the Max Planck Institute which he joined as a postdoctoral researcher in 2017 he taught researched and practiced EU and Belgian migration law as a researcher at the UCLouvain a visiting Professor at the University of Antwerp and a lawyer (Avocat) at the Bar of the Walloon Brabant. His main research interests and publications are in human rights law EU law and international law. He was the coordinator of the VULNER project. Prof. Cathrine Brun is the Deputy Director for Research at the Centre for Lebanese Studies (CLS) Lebanon and the UK. She is a human geographer and her research-interests concern forced migration and conflict housing and home; practice ethics theory and knowledge production in humanitarianism. She has worked with forced displacement disasters and urban development in Lebanon Jordan Sri Lanka India Georgia Malawi Uganda United Kingdom and Norway. Prior to joining the CLS she was a Professor in Geography at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (till 2015) and the Director of the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP) at Oxford Brookes University (UK). Prof. Hilde Lidén holds a PhD (dr. polit.) in social anthropology and is research professor at the Institute for Social Research Oslo Norway. Her research interests are transnational migration national minorities childhood and family research including the life chances and integration of children of immigrants. In the last few years her research has mainly been on rights dilemmas in international and national policies on migration management family life and citizenship.  Prof. Sabrina Marchetti is Associate Professor in Sociology at Ca Foscari University of Venice Italy. She is mainly specialised on issues of gender racism labour and migration with a specific focus on the question of refugee rights and migrant care work. In the past she has worked at the European University Institute Italy as a Marie Skodowska-Curie Fellow and Jean Monnet Fellow. She has been post-doctoral fellow at the Gender Excellence Programme of Linköping University in Sweden. She holds a Phd from the Graduate Gender Programme of Utrecht University The Netherlands. Prof. Delphine Nakache is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Law University of Ottawa Canada. Her research focusses on the most precarious groups of refugees temporary migrants (such as migrant workers and undocumented migrants) and immigrants. She regularly engages with government representatives and civil society on those topics. She is currently leading five-year SSHRC-funded research onpathways into and out of precarity for temporary migrants in Canada. She is also leading the SSHRC-funded Canadian portion of the VULNER project an international research initiative which has received funding from the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 870845. She is as well a Co-Investigator in SSHRC-funded research (Partnership Grant 2018-2025) titled Civil society and the global refugee regime: understanding and enhancing impact through the implementation of global refugee policy (LERRN). In this research she is leading the working group on Protection. Prof. Sylvie Sarolea is a Professor at UCLouvain Belgium where she teaches refugee law international migration law private international law and human rights law. She is also a lawyer at the bar of the Walloon Brabant. She founded the EDEM a research group which she has been coordinating since 2011. She is a member of the Odysseus academic network. She coordinates and/or participates in several interdisciplinary research projects (LIMA GLOBMIG VULNER ISEMI). She participates in privileged partnerships in Canada Morocco and South Kivu.