Salahadin Ali Mohammed
Biografie
Salahadin Ali Mohammed is a researcher within the Migration Law Research Group (MigrLaw) and the Human Rights Centre (HRC) at Ghent University. He holds an LLM from Ghent University. Prior to joining MigrLaw, he spent several years working as a social researcher at a research center in Eritrea.
His research within the Global Migration Justice project critically analyses the migration case law of the African Commission and the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, as part of a broader comparative analysis of migration-related case law from the European, Latin-American, African, and UN systems.
Research Domain
International Migration Law and International Human Rights Law with a specific focus on African human rights system.
Project
Global Migration Justice: Beyond conflicting approaches to migration in international human rights law - MIGJUST
Abstract:
The key hypothesis of the MIGJUST research project is that there is a fundamental conflict in human rights case law on migration between the human rights approach, adopted by the Inter-American Court and Commission of Human Rights and the African Court and Commission of Human and Peoples’ Rights, and on the other hand the sovereignty approach of the European Court of Human Rights. The difference is also at work in the case law of the UN human rights bodies. The two approaches are reflected in, and are in turn reinforced by, political theory on migration justice. In academic studies, the conflict has not been noted because the case law of the European Court of Human Rights is considered to constitute the most developed version in international human rights law. The conflict between the two approaches is problematic because it goes against the international character of international law and hinders international cooperation. MIGJUST will address this problem by (a) analysing the under-studied case law of the Inter-American, African and UN human rights bodies; (b) carrying out a comparative analysis of the European, Inter-American, African and UN case law in the field of migration; (c) relating the varying positions to political theory on migration justice; and (d) developing methodologies to resolve the doctrinal conflict.