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Winfried Kluth, VULNER project member and leader of the work package on Germany, was interviewed by the Regional Center for Political Education Saxony-Anhalt to discuss the Covid-19 measures and the restrictions on freedom and civil rights in Germany. more

Winfried Kluth, VULNER project member and leader of the work package on Germany, published a paper how on the special needs of vulnerable asylum seekers are being addressed in European and German asylum law. more

The VULNER project members of the Institute of Social Research Hilde Lidén, Jessica Schultz and Helene Wessmann have published an op-ed in the daily newspaper Klassenkampen. more

A collective volume entitled Humanitarian Admission to Europe: The Law between Promises and Constraints edited by Marie-Claire Foblets and VULNER scientific coordinator Luc Leboeuf has been published by Nomos and Hart Publishing. Bringing together contributions from legal scholars and practitioners, the book broadens the discussion of the extent to which policy controversies regarding humanitarian admission to Europe are channeled and managed through law. more

Sophie Nakueira, VULNER project member and leader of the work package on Africa, published a paper on the strategies that refugees use to make themselves legible to UNHCR’s Vulnerability Categories for Resettlement. more

Luc Leboeuf, VULNER scientific coordinator, presented a paper during the conference “Droit des étrangers, droit d’asile – Entre attraction et répulsion”. The conference on the intersections between asylum and migration law was held at the University of Paris-Evry and organized by Claire Brice-Delajoux. more

On 20 February 2020, a workshop was organized at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology to launch the VULNER research project. Discussions centred on the key methodologies and concepts that will support the implementation phase of the project. more