Safe with the neighbours? Legal and actual protection of forced migrants in the Global South: perspectives on and from Morocco.
- Promotors: Ellen Desmet
- Researchers: Ruben Wissing
- Faculties: Faculty of Law and Criminology
- Period: 2018 – 2022
- Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move, Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Global migration and mobility, Migration law, migrants rights and legal Identity
The EU increasingly seeks to outsource or ‘externalise’ its international responsibility for the protection of refugees and other migrants to third countries, such as Morocco. This PhD research examines, from a multidisciplinary perspective, what legal and actual protection exists for forced migrants in Morocco. The research evaluates the extraterritorial responsibility of states under international refugee and human rights law (doctrinal law perspective), examines what migrants themselves seek and understand to be protection, or ‘protection consciousness’ (socio-legal perspective), and looks at Morocco’s Africa diplomacy regarding asylum and migrants’ rights (critical policy perspective).