Mobile Futures, in cooperation with SILE and the Finnish Human Rights Centre, invites you to the virtual roundtable discussion:

INSTITUTIONAL MISTRUST?

The Finnish Human Rights Centre recently published a report on the implementation of the Finnish rules on circumvention of entry provisions in the Aliens Act (Section 36.2) in the case law of the Finnish Administrative Courts. The report showed that the openly defined provision in question is applied to many different situations, that the public interest at stake in the provision is unclear and that the threshold for application is obscure. On the basis of the report, it is possible to consider what rule of law issues are
related to the circumvention of entry provisions. How much authority discretion can be allowed before legal application becomes arbitrary? Which groups are particularly affected by the provision in question? What does the existence and application of the rule in question tell us about migration governance and bordering practices?

PANELISTS
ELSA KORKMAN, THE FINNISH HUMAN RIGHTS CENTRE
JAANA PALANDER, THE UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND
MERVI LEPPÄKORPI, THE UNIVERSITY OF TURKU
AMIN PARSA, HALMSTAD UNIVERSITY
JOHANNA VANTO, THE UNIVERSITY OF TURKU
MAGDALENA KMAK, ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY

CHAIR
DANIELA ALAATTINOGLU, THE UNIVERSITY OF TURKU

Welcome to join the virtual roundtable discussion! Please register here by 24 April.