Concept of the Conference

The MeDiMi Project

MeDiMi is an interdisciplinary research group funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), which comprises ten projects and a coordination & theory unit located at six academic institutions in Germany and the Netherlands. MeDiMi studies the scope, forms, and consequences of the “humanrightization” of discursive practices in migration-related conflicts. It analyzes the manifold references to human rights in legal, political, and everyday contexts, with the aim of developing a practice theory of human rights in contemporary societies.

Concept of the Conference

After two years of ongoing research, the MeDiMi conference will further explore the intersection of human rights and migration. It is open to researchers at all career stages and of all backgrounds – from undergraduate and doctoral students to senior academics, experienced practitioners, and activist voices. Participants are invited to join us in discussing a wide variety of legal struggles, issues of in-/exclusion, and (self-)representations of actors in migration societies.

Rather than providing preliminary results and theoretical findings from our own research, we want to listen and learn what others have found out about the dynamics of humanrightization: the practices of human rights movements, the role of human rights law, the interplay of human rights and democracy, and the making of human rights consciousness in migration societies.

The Call for Papers for the conference can be found here.