MOBILE – Mobility Law Open Lab

Exit Rights, Seamless Borders, and the Question of Mobility

Guest presenter: Audrey Macklin is Professor of Law and Chair in Human Rights and Director of the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies at University of Toronto.  She teaches, researches, and advocates on all aspects of migration, refugee and citizenship law.

The presentation addresses the contemporary erosion of the human right to exit any country. Audrey Macklin focuses on destination states pay states of origin and transit to prevent potential migrants from moving within, and exiting, those states.  The author argues that this trend provokes inquiry into whether the right of exit still matters - and how and why it ever mattered.  In tandem with with pandemic restrictions on movement, exit restrictions invite wider questions about the meaning we ascribe to mobility in circumstances of expanding state power to regulate movement as such.

Time: 25 April 2023 11:00-12:30

Place: MOBILE – 6B-2-22 Southern Campus

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