Professor Leo Lucassen on migration and human rights
After weeks of controversy around the Global Compact for Migration, Diggit Magazine asked Professor Leo Lucassen to put the debate and the Compact itself in a larger context.
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"The policy of the European Union, that goes against a lot of international treaties. I mean, not compacts, but treaties." Professor Leo Lucassen puts the controversy around the Global Compact for Migration in context.
Lucassen is Professor of Global Labour and Migration History and director of the International Institute of Social History (IISH). His research focuses on Global Migration History, Integration, Migration Systems, Migration Controls, Gypsies and the state, State Formation and Modernity, and Urban History.
