Workshop “Rethinking the EU’s Cooperation with Third Countries Under its new Migration and Asylum Pact”

Programme

1. 09:30 – 10:00

   Participants’ Arrival, Registration & Coffee

2. 10:00 – 10:15

   Opening session: Welcome, Introductions, and Discussion of the Goals of the Workshop

   Romit Bhandari and Susan Rottmann

3. 10:15 – 10:45

   Elsa Fernando GonzaloUniversity of Salamanca

   From Informality to Extraterritoriality: Return Hubs as the New Chapter of EU’s Returnmania

   Discussant Romit Bhandari

4. 10:45 – 11:15

   Levent PişkinUniversity of Dundee

   Valid but Inoperative: De-Formalisation and the Architecture of Accountability Gaps in the EU’s Cooperation with Third Countries

   Discussant Elsa Fernando Gonzalo

5. 11:15 – 11:45

   Neva ÖztürkAnkara University

   Behind the Veil of Voluntariness: Constructive Refoulement and Preventive Responsibility in the EU’s Externalised Migration Control

   Discussant Levent Pişkin

6. 11:45 – 12:00

   Coffee Break

7. 12:00 – 12:30

   Romit Bhandari and Annalisa MeloniUniversity of East London

   Whose Emergency? Geopolitics and the Constitutional Role of Instrumentalisation in EU law

   Discussant Michael J. Geary

8. 12:30 – 13:00

   N. Ela Gokalp-ArasSwedish Research Institute in IstanbulOnline

   Financialised Externalisation under the EU’s Migration and Asylum Pact: Funding, Power, and Third-Country Agency in EU–Türkiye Migration Governance

   Discussant Susan Beth Rottmann

9. 13:00 – 14:30

   Lunch

10. 14:30 – 15:00

    Saila HeinikoskiFinnish Institute of International Affairs

    The External Dimension of Migration and Return Hubs: Conditionality and Externalisation as Migration Diplomacy Tools

    Discussant Johan Ekstedt

11. 15:00 – 15:30

    Paula Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik (Sciences Po Paris) and Frowin Rausis (University of Geneva)

    Externalisation and the New “European Way of Life”? Strategic Face-Work and Inter-Institutional Dynamics in EU Migration Policy

    Discussant Saila Heinikoski

12. 15:30 – 16:00

    Johan EkstedtUniversité Libre de Bruxelles

    Modelling Legitimate Partners – the EUAA and Externalization of Migration Control

    Discussant Paula Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik

13. 16:00 – 16:30

    Wrap-Up and Discussion of Next Steps

    Michael J. Geary

Workshop organisers

This workshop is funded through the COST Association Action CA21120 — History of Identity Documentation in European Nations: Citizenship, Nationality and Migration. The organisers would like to thank the Royal Docks School of Business and Law, University of East London, for hosting the event, and its financial support for refreshments.