The Centre for Fundamental Rights, in collaboration with Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung(WZB) and the RefMig project*, is convening a workshop focused on the challenges to migration and the revision of the Model International Mobility Convention.
In 2015 and 2016, a group of more than 40 specialists in migration and refugee protection gathered to draft a Model International Mobility Convention (MIMC) to addresss the overlaps and gaps in existing refugee protection regimes at the time. MIMC aimed to offer a “realistic utopia” that is comprehensive of the various forms of mobility and a cumulative protection of rights for the varying statuses under which people move across borders.
The completed Convention with commentary was published as a special issue of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law in 2018, The shortened version, MIMC 2.0, can be found at the Carnegie Council wesite.
While MIMC addresses many of the gaps of the current international legal regime, it misses some important challenges, whose effects have become particularly prominent in recent years. Current challenges such as those to our environment, public health and democracy have deeply affected migrants and asylum seekers and have starkly demonstrated the inadequacy of our current system.
In order to respond to such questions, The Centre for Fundamental Rights, along with Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) and the RefMig project, are convening a workshop focused on the challenges to migration and the revision of the Model International Mobility Convention. The workshop is designed to open a space for identifying and expanding key debates around migration and to start conceptualizing the necessary revisions that should be incorporated in a MIMC 3.0. It will allow for exchange and debate on how migration can be governed better and how those who cross borders can be supported as new challenges arise.
Participation in this workshop is through invitation only.
*The RefMig project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 716968).
