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Barbara von Rütte at Justus-Liebig University Giessen
Barbara von Rütte has given a talk entitled «The Right to Have Rights? A Human Right to Citizenship in a Migration Context» at Justus-Liebig University Giessen. The presentation was part of the international conference «Human Rights in Migration Societies» and took place on 20 September 2024.
Barbara von Rütte’s talk was one of altogether three contributions to a panel entitled «Reframing of Rights», which covered topics such as citizenship as a human right, the framing of migration, as well as questions of human rights and exceptionalism in European migration law. With such timely discussions, the conference sought to explore the intersection of human rights and migration in law, politics, and everyday life. The international event was organised by MeDiMi, an interdisciplinary research group based in Germany and the Netherlands, which studies discourse on human rights in legal, political, and everyday contexts with the aim of developing a practice-oriented theory of human rights in contemporary societies.
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.