Research Centre Immigration & Asylum Law

The Research Centre Immigration & Asylum Law will co-organise the Workshop on ‘Narratives for a Country of Immigration’ (in German), which will take place at the University of Konstanz on 21/22 June 2023 in physical presence.  The Regional Minister for Integration of Baden-Württemberg, Manfred ‘Manne’ Lucha, will contribute a political Keynote über „Zugehörigkeit und Zusammenhalt in Baden-Württemberg“ (Thursday, 21 June at 18:15), which can also be followed online as a hybrid event. External…

Asylum policy reform takes centre stage in the public debate in Germany and the EU in response to a ‘refugee summit’ in the chancellery and the forthcoming ‘showdown’ over the ongoing legislative debate in Brussels. These debates epitomise an underlying challenge: will Germany and Europe face continued ad hoc improvisation or witness a fundamental revision preparing the ground for a more sustainable asylum system? Will the reform proposals, if adopted, change much in practice? In an interview…

On the occasion of the informal ‘diversity day’, the public radio station WDR 5 has produced a podcast with Professor Thym (starting at 2’15 min., in German) on his normative vision of equal membership and togetherness in an increasingly diverse Germany. It takes up topics that feature prominently in the German debate and can learn from a comparison with the classic country of immigration: the US. For further comments, see the op-ed essay with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published in…