ERC Starting Grant · 2025
The right to give rights. Welfare professionals as guardians of undocumented migrants’ human rights.
Undocumented migrants’ rights are under pressure in Europe today and migration control is increasingly deputized across different societal actors. Several decades ago, Hannah Arendt pointed out that universalistic understandings of human rights have little to offer noncitizens. Inspired by her, researchers have suggested that the foundation for undocumented migrants’ human rights instead can be found in the right-claims and contestations of migrants themselves. However, little attention has been paid to the role of welfare professionals in these processes. Across Europe, welfare professionals have resisted proposals that they should have a duty to report undocumented migrants to the police.…
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