“Refugees welcome?” National and European dimensions of Germany’s recent refugee policies
Speaker:
- Dietrich Thränhardt Professor of Political Science, University of Münster, Germany
Location: Sheffield-Massey Room (TNH 2.111)
Dietrich Thränhardt is one of the most renowned European immigration scholars. He has published extensively on German and European immigration and integration policies, and he is the author of several comparative studies on immigration in Europe, Canada and the US. In his talk he will focus on the influx of Syrian refugees to the European Union since 2015, Germany’s contradictory responses to this refugee immigration, and the European Union’s struggle to find a common approach in the field of migration policies.
Supporters
Department of Germanic Studies at The University of Texas at Austin, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD; German Academic Exchange Service), and the Center for European Studies at The University of Texas at Austin.