Professor of Migration Law
The idea of the ‘ghost ship’ suggests both the danger of a threatening cargo and mysterious migration routes. Powerful institutional agendas have acted to bolster the ‘ghost ship’ obsession. Such symbolism renders the specificities of Mediterranean migration opaque.
Spectral Vessels (with Theodore Baird and Paolo Cuttitta), in Open Democray, 17 Janaury 2015
Ze stikken, verdrinken en verbranden en wij halen achteloos de schouders op, NRC-Handelsblad, 5 November 2005
‘Hoge sterfte onder bootvluchtelingen uit Afrika dwingt tot herbezinning’ Interview, Het Financieele Dagblad 7 juni 2014.
[wr_row][wr_column]This article gives an overview of legal articles on LGBT asylum issues. It argues for a non-essentialist understanding of sexual identity when advocating asylum for persecuted LGBT people.
‘Sexual identity, normativity and asylum‘, in Thomas Spijkerboer (Ed.), Fleeing Homophobia. Sexual orientation, gender identity and asylum, London & New York: Routledge 2013, p. 217-238[/wr_column]][wr_text]This article gives an overview of legal articles on LGBT asylum issues. It argues for a non-essentialist understanding of sexual identity when advocating asylum for persecuted LGBT people.
‘Sexual identity, normativity and asylum‘, in Thomas Spijkerboer (Ed.), Fleeing Homophobia. Sexual orientation, gender identity and asylum, London & New York: Routledge 2013, p. 217-238[/wr_text][/wr_column][/wr_row]
At the Vrije Universiteit, we are carrying out a research project about changes in European border policies and migrant deaths since 1990. This document is the research proposal that was funded by NWO (the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research).
Border Policies and Sovereignty. Human rights and the right to life of irregular migrants
Voor de poorten van de stad. Antigone en de asielzoekers, De Groene Amsterdammer 7 maart 2013, p. 38-39
De Nederlandse rechter in het vreemdelingenrecht, Sdu, Den Haag 2014.