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Routes Conversation: Pushbacks:Legal and Securitisation Perspectives

A conversation with Clara Bosch March and Gabriela Patricia Garcia Garcia

A conversation with Clara Bosch March and Gabriela Patricia Garcia Garcia on Wednesday 6th March 2024 4 pm - 5 pm. Register for the event at https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYpduquqTkiGd1mknLR1wovEHELfZLk7ecs To join the Routes mailing list, email routes@exeter.ac.uk


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Clara Bosch March is a PhD candidate, Irish Research Council and Hardiman scholar at the Irish Centre for Human Rights (ICHR) at the University of Galway, Ireland.

Her research focuses on the judicial dialogue around the prohibition on collective expulsion of aliens under Article Four of Protocol No. Four ECHR (A4-P4) in non-admission cases between the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Spain and Italy.

She won the First Prize of the Third Dissertation Award of the Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law (JIANL) in 2021 for her paper 'Backsliding on the Protection of Migrants' Rights? The Evolutive Interpretation of the Prohibition of Collective Expulsion by the European Court of Human Rights'.

She recently published the article 'Revisiting Hirsi Jamaa and Others v. Italy – carving a dubious new duty out of Protocol No. 4 ECHR?' in the European Law Review (2023), and her paper 'The backsliding on the interpretation of Article 4 of Protocol No. 4 ECHR in 'pushback' cases: a questionable attempt to redress the Hirsi 'overstretch'?' received a commendation at the European Human Rights Law Conference 2023, celebrated at the University of Cambridge on 28-29 September 2023.

Gabriela Patricia Garcia Garcia is a Lecturer in Security Studies and IR at the University of Exeter since June 2022. Her research focusses on the securitisation of (forced) migration. In particular, she analyses governmental-led security practices and discourses, and the lived experiences of security scripts on refugee and migrant populations, including its gendered, racialised and colonial dimensions. More recently, she has begun exploring decolonial understandings of inclusion and ‘diversity’ and participatory and visual methods. Besides her academic background, she has practised immigration and asylum law in South America and has worked in the development and humanitarian sector.

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