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Global migration centre
21 February 2014

Conference: The Swiss vote against mass immigration, freedom of movement and international law: A preliminary assessment


The recent short victory of the ‘no’ to mass immigration in Switzerland raises several questions: How come a country with a successful economy says no to immigration? What are the implications of this vote beyond the issue of freedom of movement within the European Union?

  • Thursday 27 February
, Sala del Capitolo, Badia Fiesolana
 - 15:00-17:00


Presentation by Vincent Chetail, Professor of International Law and Director of the Global Migration Centre Graduate Institute Geneva


Chair: Philippe De Bruycker, Deputy Director of the Migration Policy Centre, RSCAS and Research Associate at the Global Migration Centre


Discussant: Adrienne Héritier, Professor of Comparative and European Public Policy, Political and Social Sciences Department, Director for Institutions at the European Democracy Observatory (EUDO), RSCAS

 

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