International conference ‘Understanding causes and consequences of the criminalisation of migration’

On 17-18 May 2018 the Peace Institute in cooperation with partners (Institute of Criminology at the Law Faculty, Ljubljana, International Law Association Slovenia and CINETS: Crimmigration Control – International Net of Studies) hosted an international conference ‘Understanding causes and consequences of the criminalisation of migration‘. One the eve of the conference, 16 May 2018 a presentation of a Slovenian translation of a book Violent Borders (Reece Jones) was organized in cooperation with *cf Publishing House.

Presentation of the book ‘Violent Borders’, Atrij ZRC.

The conference hosted 28 scholars and researchers from all over the world who presented interdisciplinary papers from the fields of law, political science, sociology, international relations and from practice. The conference within which the participants shared information, research findings and opinions on the increased trends of the criminalisation of migration, was highly successful (based on feed-back forms of the participants) and rich in interesting discussions, new contacts and ideas for future work.

Conference programme with abstracts of papers