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On March 2023, 6-8, Luc Leboeuf, VULNER scientific coordinator, took part to the final conference of the PROTECT project. He exchanged on the promises, challenges, and pitfalls, of relying on ‘vulnerability’ as a tool of asylum governance, as part of a panel that was organized by Christine Jacobsen to discuss PROTECT’s findings based on their fieldwork in EU border zones.
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On January 2023, 30-31, Hilde Liden, leader of the work package on Norway and of the work package on vulnerabilities that relate to age, took part to the transnational workshop ‘Migrant Children’s Transition to Adulthood’. She presented a paper entitled ‘Transition to adulthood: From vulnerable children to capable adults?’. more

Vulner Italian team member Giulia Garofalo Geymonat discusses the documentary CAER/CAUGHT (2021) by Nicola Mai and Colectivo Intercultural Transgrediendo in the students’ radio program of the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. more

Sophie Nakueira, leader of VULNER African team, co-authored together with Sophie Andreetta the journal article ‘The governance of vulnerable migrants: procedure, resources and affect in asylum reception’, which is published in Citizenship Studies. more

On 12 December, 2022 Zoé Crine and Christine Flamand, researchers of the VULNER Belgian team, took part to a conference organized by NGOs on the reception crisis in Belgium. The conference organisers included Amnesty International Vlaanderen, Vluchtelingenwerk Vlaanderen, Caritas International.be, CIRÉ asbl, Orbit vzw, with the support of the UNHCR. more

On December 1, 2022, Sylvie Saroléa, Christine Flamand, Francesca Raimondo and Zoé Crine, members of the VULNER Belgian team organise a workshop entitled ‘Through the Eyes of the “Vulnerable”: Dialogues on Temporalities and Space’, which will take place in Brussels. more

Starting on December 1st, 2022, 'Speaking Refugee - The VULNER Podcast' will take you on a journey to Uganda, Lebanon and Belgium to explore the different meanings and facets of vulnerability and resilience. Hosted by Sham Jaff. more