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Barbara von Rütte Has Presented at the University of Frankfurt
Barbara von Rütte has given a talk entitled «Selecting Citizens: Boundary Making Through Nationality in the Case of Switzerland» at the Goethe University of Frankfurt. The presentation was part of the international workshop «Reimagining Mobility and Membership» and took place on 5 July 2024.
The workshop was organised by the Leibniz Research Group «Transformations of Citizenship» in collaboration with the university’s research centre «Normative Orders». It brought together members of the research group as well as external guests, who presented work-in-progress dealing with mobility, migration, and civic boundary-drawing from different disciplinary perspectives.
Barbara von Rütte is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for European Global Studies. She received her doctorate in the field of international law from the University of Berne and has worked for the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen and Free University of Berlin. In addition, she was a consultant for the Council of Europe and is a member of the Swiss Federal Commission on Migration. In her research, she focuses on questions of belonging, discrimination, and democracy; nationality, citizenship, and statelessness; Swiss and international migration law; international human rights protection and public international law; as well as constitutional law and general administrative law.