About The Workshop
SW 59- Justice and Mobility: Access, Rights, and Barriers
Convenors: Nadire Özdemir; Ben Hudson
Contact: nadire.ozdemir@gmail.com; B.Hudson2@exeter.ac.uk
The special workshop proposes a multidisciplinary examination of the relationship between justice and human mobility, focusing on the intersectional conditions that shape access to rights and justice for people on the move. Mobility does not constitute a single legal or social category; it intersects with gender, class, ethnicity, religion, age, disability and more. These overlapping dimensions generate layered barriers that affect access to justice across legal, political, institutional, and social domains. Accordingly, the workshop approaches justice not merely as a formal procedural guarantee, but as a multidimensional and lived experience shaped by unequal structures of mobility, belonging and recognition.
The workshop seeks to bring together philosophical, socio-legal, and empirical perspectives in order to interrogate how justice systems respond to the realities of migration. Discussions will address the legal and institutional frameworks governing migrants’ access to rights, the relationship between migration governance and justice mechanisms, and the structural inequalities that limit effective access to remedies.
The workshop welcomes contributions from scholars working in legal philosophy, sociology of law, socio-legal studies, migration studies, and empirical legal research. Papers may adopt theoretical, normative, or empirical approaches. Through dialogue across disciplines, the workshop aims to develop a richer understanding of justice that accounts for the realities of migration and social inequality.
Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):
- Migrants’ access to justice and structural inequality
- Borders, legality, and the limits of rights
- Equality before the law in migration regimes
- Migration law as a site of exclusion
- The moral limits of immigration control
- Legitimacy of exclusion
- Power, stigma, and legal marginalization
- Law in action: migrants and institutions
- Comparative migration regimes
- Critical migration studies and law
To participate, please send an email to B.Hudson2@exeter.ac.uk or naozdemir@ankara.edu.tr with the title and abstract (max 300 words) of your paper, your affiliation, and a short bio (max 150 words) by April 30, 2026.
Justice and Mobility: Access, Rights, and Barriers
Convenors: Ben Hudson, Nadire Özdemir
This special workshop proposes a multidisciplinary examination of the relationship between justice and human mobility, focusing on the intersectional conditions that shape access to rights and justice for people on the move. Mobility does not constitute a single legal or social category; it intersects with gender, class, ethnicity, religion, age, disability and more. These overlapping dimensions generate layered barriers that affect access to justice across legal, political, institutional, and social domains. Accordingly, the workshop approaches justice not merely as a formal procedural guarantee, but as a multidimensional and lived experience shaped by unequal structures of mobility, belonging, and recognition.
