‘Meet the jury’ lecture by Prof. Dr. François Crépeau: Migration policies as an electoral ploy too often based on myths
- When
- 14-10-2025 from 12:30 to 14:00
- Where
- Faculty Board Room, Voldersstraat 3, Gent (Campus Aula)
- Language
- English
- Organizer
- Lore Roels
- Contact
- lore.roels@ugent.be
global expert on international migration law Prof. Dr. François Crépeau will give a lecture at Ghent University on ‘Migration policies as an electoral ploy too often based on myths’.
François Crépeau is a Canadian lawyer and emeritus Professor at the Faculty of Law at McGill University.
He was named the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants (from 2011 to 2017) and was appointed to Belgium's International Francqui Professor Chair in Social Sciences for 2017-2018.
Over his accomplished career, Professor Crépeau has distinguished himself as the leading global expert on international migration law.
On the 14th of October 2015, he will give a public lecture at Ghent University on ‘Migration policies as an electoral ploy too often based on myths’. Without migrants’ political agency, migration policies remain mired in myths and stereotypes. Indeed, migrants cannot provide the reality check of their lived lives in order to shape migration policies which correspond to their reality on the ground. In particular, it is politically impossible at present to sanction all the employers who exploit undocumented migrants and thus provide the essential pull factor for undocumented migration, a pull factor without which the latter would be considerably reduced.
You are cordially invited to attend this lecture in Ghent University’s Law Faculty Board Room, by registering via the link below.
Places are limited and will be filled on a first come, first served basis.
