Protecting migrant rights and democratic rights through law: Friends, foes or strangers? (EXC 3039)
Third Party Funds Group - Sub project
Acronym: EXC 3039
Start date : 01.09.2026
End date : 30.09.2028
Website: https://www.transforming-human-rights.fau.de/en/research-projects/
Overall project details
Overall project
Cluster of Excellence “Transforming Human Rights“ (EXC 3039)
Jan. 1, 2026 - Dec. 31, 2032
Project details
Scientific Abstract
Scientific Abstract
This project aims to examine the entanglements and disentanglements between the legal practices to protect migrant rights and democratic rights across Europe. Focussing on legal practices in Denmark, Germany, Greece, Poland, Turkey and the UK domestically and supranationally, it asks whether and how real-world experiences to protect migrant rights and democratic rights though law are entangled or disentangled, for what reasons and with what consequences. The project will achieve this through a transdisciplinary research design. It will bring the academic literature on migrant rights, democratic rights and autocratic practices in conversation with the everyday experiences of the legal practices of human rights spanning migrant rights and democratic rights in. The project does not start off with a working hypothesis of this relationship in practice, rather it will adopt a reflexive stance with the view of exploring whether the meeting of the academics and human rights law practitioners may produce new forms of knowledge and practices at the intersection of migrant rights and democratic rights.
