Ruben Wissing

Supervisor

Department of European, Public and International Law

Faculty of Law and Criminology

Ruben is a postdoctoral researcher and teaching assistant at the Migration Law Research Group. His research interests are situated at the intersection of refugee, human rights and international law, and entails doctrinal analysis, socio-legal research, critical and postcolonial perspectives and alternative knowledge production. His work focusses on transnational and regional law and policy dynamics in and at the borders of Europe.

Ruben is member of the CESSMIR steering group, and is affiliated to the Human Rights Centre and to the Refugee Law Initiative of the University of London. He completed a PhD on the protection of refugees in Morocco from a multidisciplinary perspective. He teaches the course Law and Society.

Ruben holds a master in Law and a bachelor in Philosophy. He practiced as a migration lawyer, as a legal officer and policy coordinator in various Belgian non-profits, worked for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and is a co-founder of NANSEN, the Belgian Refugee Council.

Email: ruben.wissing@ugent.be

Phone: +3292646897

Research themes:

Migration law, migrants’ rights and legal identity || Global migration and mobility || Borders, migration governance and people on the move || Discrimination, racism and prejudice

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