About the Project
Vulnerabilities under the Global Protection Regime (VULNER) is a three-year comparative research project investigating implementation of vulnerability of protection seekers across seven countries in Europe (Belgium, Germany, Italy, Norway), North America (Canada), the Middle East (Lebanon), and Africa (Uganda and South Africa). For the analysis, two different yet complementary perspectives are adopted. First, investigation will consider the ways that the “vulnerabilities” of the migrants seeking protection are being assessed and addressed by the norms and practices of decision-makers. Second, empirical fieldwork data will shed light on the various forms and nature of the concrete experiences of “vulnerability” as they are lived by the migrants seeking protection, including resilience strategies and how they are being continuously shaped through interaction with the legal frameworks. Ultimately, through this systematic documentation and analysis of legal and empirical data, the very notion of “vulnerability” will be questioned and assessed from a critical perspective.
Project owner: Maz Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle Germany
Project partners: Ca’Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy; Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain, Belgium; Center for Lebanese Studies, Beirut, Lebanon; Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway; Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany; Population Europe, Berlin, Germany; University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada; McGill University, Montreal, Canada; York University, Toronto, Canada; University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Funder: European Union Horizon 2020 research and Innovation Programme (and includes includes a partnership with a Canadian research team led by Delphine Nakache from the University of Ottawa, which is financed by matching funding from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC/CRSH).)
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