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Crise des réfugiés ukrainiens versus méditerranéens

Des politiques en crise ou des promesses dans la question migratoire ?

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Published on Thursday, April 07, 2022

Abstract

The war in Ukraine has provoked an unprecedented humanitarian surge. The various actors: governments, NGOs, associations, civil societies are organizing themselves to offer assistance to Ukrainian refugees. The European Union is applying a 2001 directive, which allows for the granting of temporary protection status in order to guarantee rapid access to rights: right of residence, access to work, to healthcare, to housing, education... to a stay in decent and safe conditions. These exceptional conditions granted to refugees contrast with the conditions of Mediterranean refugees. It is in this context that the United Nations human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, welcomes this humanitarian solidarity but also recalls that other migrants and refugees are often faced with refoulement and criminalization at the EU's borders and beyond.

Announcement

Presentation

The war in Ukraine has provoked an unprecedented humanitarian surge. The various actors: governments, NGOs, associations, civil societies are organizing themselves to offer assistance to Ukrainian refugees. The European Union is applying a 2001 directive, which allows for the granting of temporary protection status in order to guarantee rapid access to rights: right of residence, access to work, access to healthcare, access to housing, education... access to a stay in decent and safe conditions.

These exceptional conditions granted to refugees contrast with the conditions of Mediterranean refugees. It is in this context that the United Nations human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, welcomes this humanitarian solidarity but also recalls that other migrants and refugees are often faced with refoulement and criminalization at the EU's borders and beyond.

Media and political speeches have fueled the subject, but behind these controversial speeches, these media polemics, what does this Ukrainian crisis reveal about the migration issue?  

The objective of this conference is to try to address this issue, to understand why the application of the 2001 mechanism was only activated with this crisis? What are the difficulties of its implementation? Could this system be sustainable and concern all refugees? Could this humanitarian impulse, which has given rise to controversy, be indicative of a dysfunction, a lack of respect for human rights or a promise of better treatment of refugees in Europe?

The research laboratory "Face à face" is organizing a seminar to provide some answers to these questions.

Program

Tuesday, April 12, 2022 from 4:30 pm to 7 pm

  • Catherine WITHOL DE WENDEN (Professor at Sciences Po Paris. Director of research emeritus CNRS) What does the Ukrainian crisis reveal about the migration issue?
  • Lucie FEUTRIER-COOK (Expert in migration and asylum law. Assessor judge for the UNHCR and the CNDA) Ukrainian refugees and displaced persons, the challenge of reception in France.
  • Pierre ATCHOM (UNHCR Deputy Representative in the Democratic Republic of Congo)

Organizers

  • Haïfa HOUBERT
  • Selva SENOR
  • Hero SUÁREZ

Practicalities

In person and by zoom

3 Av. Bernard Hirsch, 95000 Cergy, PA 13

External students at ESSEC are requested to send an email to haifa.houbert@essec.edu to attend in person 

Zoom link: https://essec.zoom.us/j/93883727208

Subjects

Places

  • PA 113 - 3 Av. Bernard Hirsch
    Cergy, France (95)

Event attendance modalities

Hybrid event (on site and online)


Date(s)

  • Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Keywords

  • migration, ukrainien, méditerranéen, réfugié, Union européenne

Contact(s)

  • Hero Suarez
    courriel : faceaface [at] essec [dot] edu
  • Haïfa Houbert
    courriel : haifa [dot] houbert [at] essec [dot] edu

Information source

  • Hero Suarez
    courriel : faceaface [at] essec [dot] edu

License

CC0-1.0 This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.

To cite this announcement

« Crise des réfugiés ukrainiens versus méditerranéens », Study days, Calenda, Published on Thursday, April 07, 2022, https://doi.org/10.58079/18nw

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