MeDiMi Lecture | Anuscheh Farahat: Research on Human Rights and Migration: The Way Forward

Concluding Keynote by Prof. Dr. Anuscheh Farahat (University of Vienna) at the MeDiMi Conference 2024
The lecture outlines an agenda for future research on human rights and migration. It higlights the importance of focusing on three interconnected dimensions of migration from a comparative, human rights-based, and interdisciplinary perspective: (i) the agency of migrants, (ii) the political economy of migration, and (iii) the different modes of belonging.
Anuscheh Farahat is a Professor of Public Law in European Context at the University of Vienna. Previously, she was a Professor of Migration Law and Human Rights Law at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. Between 2017 and 2024 she headed an Emmy-Noether research group on the role of constitutional courts in transnational solidarity conflicts in Europe, which was funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). Since 2023, she has been a Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle with her project “JUST MIGRATION: Labour migration regimes in transnationalised contexts”. Anuscheh studied law in Frankfurt, Paris and Berkeley. She received her PhD in law from the Goethe University Frankfurt. Her book on migrant citizenship and transnational migration in Germany (Progressive Inklusion: Zugehörigkeit und Teilhabe im Migrationsrecht, Springer Verlag, 2014) received multiple awards. Anuscheh Farahat publishes widely on issues of European and international migration law, citizenship law, human rights law and constitutional law (both European and national), with a specific focus on solidarity conflicts.
Anuscheh Farahat gave this talk on September 20, 2024, at Justus Liebig University Giessen. It was the concluding event of the MeDiMi Conference 2024 on "Exploring the Intersection of Human Rights and Migration in Law, Politics, and Everyday Life". Further information on the conference can be found at: www.medimi.de/conference.