Migration, Asylum and Belonging: An Old German Issue in a Changing World
Speaker: Patrice G. Poutrus, German Research Foundation
27 October 2017 – 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Please register at: https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/23130
In his lecture, Patrice G. Poutrus will lead us through the developments of migration and asylum policy in the two postwar German states from the end of late 1940s to early 1990s, with the main focus on West Germany. His aim is to show how changes in constitutional law, migration policy and political culture were accompanied and influenced by migration itself. Looking at how public and political opinions on the issues of migration and asylum were shaped can help us to better understand the nature subsequent developments in public opinion and asylum policy, including their consequences for the refugee crisis of 2015.
Dr. Poutrus is a member of the German Research Foundation’s ‘Foundations of Refugee Research’ network. He served as senior fellow at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna and at the Simon-Wiesenthal-Institute for Holocaust Studies and has taught at the Martin-Luther University (Halle) and the Free University (Berlin). Next semester, he will be affiliated with the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt Oder, where he will be doing a substitution as a lecturer and will lead classes on the History of Nationalism and another on Media History.
