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Global Mobility Law(s)

Global Mobility Law(s), a more recent interest that derives from my engagement in a refugee studies project (the Cátedra Sérgio Vieira de Mello (CSVM)) that I co-direct at PUC; with both academic refugee studies and the humanitarian engagement with refugees and migrants being of relatively recent provenance in Brazil, the CSVM’s brief combines research with (often pioneering) teaching -in the PUC-Rio’s case this includes a multidisciplinary refugee studies course co-taught by members of six participating departments (Law, International Relations, Language & Literature, Psychology, Social Work, and Architecture and Urbanism) , as well as some frontline work with refugee communities. On the research front I have focussed both on the Venezuelan refugee crisis as of 2015 -which has, arguably, showcased some broader (legal) phenomena that represent a potentially innovative variation to other refugee scenarios-, and on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on border regimes. I also manage a grant project on this theme and, in that context, have begun a research collaboration with Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen of the University of Copenhagen the Danish National Research Foundation’s Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law there; this, has in turn, raised my interest in the broader research horizon of global mobility (law), which I see as one of the areas I hope to explore further at this moment.

Here is a list of (some) current engagements and/or projects, as well as  recent publications associated with the theme and its sub-themes: