New Visiting Researcher at MOBILE - Chiara Raucea
Dr. Chiara Raucea is an Assistant Professor of European Union Law at the Department of Public Law and Governance, Tilburg Law School, Tilburg University (NL). She teaches an LL.M. course on Migration and the Rule of Law and a bachelor's course on European Union Law.
She obtained her PhD from Tilburg University in 2017, defending a dissertation titled Citizenship inverted: From rights to status. This thesis is a collection of articles published in the German Law Journal, the European Law Journal, and the Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy.
Dr. Raucea’s research is multidisciplinary, combining doctrinal EU law with legal and political philosophy. Her work explores the relationship between legal status and access to rights, with a particular focus on the rights of migrants in host communities. She is currently working on a project investigating the political dimension of the right to private life, arguing that this right may provide a normative foundation for claims to naturalisation, permanent residence, and the regularisation of migration statuses.
She is also interested in how notions of care and dependency are (or are not) accounted for in current EU mobility regimes, and how migration and free movement rules should better reflect these fundamental aspects of the human condition.
Dr. Raucea has recently published on migration-related topics including: the reintroduction of reintroduction of checks at the EU's internal borders, Search and Rescue Operations at sea, access to asylum protection in the EU for refugees of Palestinian origin, and a three-part blog series on the recognition of legal gender identity across EU borders (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3).