Dr Maja Grundler
@majagrundler.bsky.social
Lecturer in Law at Northumbria Law School • Refugee law/irregularised migration • Co-chair of the Human Trafficking Research Network
Pinned
It’s publication day!
My monograph 'Irregular Migration, Refugee Status and the Law: Protection from Dangerous Migratory Journeys' is out with @routledgebooks.bsky.social: www.routledge.com/Irregular-Mi...
If you’re interested, please consider asking your institution’s library to purchase a copy.
My monograph 'Irregular Migration, Refugee Status and the Law: Protection from Dangerous Migratory Journeys' is out with @routledgebooks.bsky.social: www.routledge.com/Irregular-Mi...
If you’re interested, please consider asking your institution’s library to purchase a copy.
All articles from our JIANL Special Issue are now available open access as author manuscript versions here: ilpa.org.uk/journal-of-i...
Thanks very much to @ilpaimmigration.bsky.social for allowing us to bring the Special Issue to a wider audience!
Thanks very much to @ilpaimmigration.bsky.social for allowing us to bring the Special Issue to a wider audience!
November 21, 2025 at 9:52 AM
All articles from our JIANL Special Issue are now available open access as author manuscript versions here: ilpa.org.uk/journal-of-i...
Thanks very much to @ilpaimmigration.bsky.social for allowing us to bring the Special Issue to a wider audience!
Thanks very much to @ilpaimmigration.bsky.social for allowing us to bring the Special Issue to a wider audience!
📕🚀 Book launch!
I'll be discussing my book Irregular Migration, Refugee Status and the Law with Professor Elspeth Guild and Dr Liza Schuster, chaired by @gillkane.bsky.social!
15 October, 17:00, online and in-person in London, sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/irregular-...
I'll be discussing my book Irregular Migration, Refugee Status and the Law with Professor Elspeth Guild and Dr Liza Schuster, chaired by @gillkane.bsky.social!
15 October, 17:00, online and in-person in London, sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/irregular-...
September 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
📕🚀 Book launch!
I'll be discussing my book Irregular Migration, Refugee Status and the Law with Professor Elspeth Guild and Dr Liza Schuster, chaired by @gillkane.bsky.social!
15 October, 17:00, online and in-person in London, sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/irregular-...
I'll be discussing my book Irregular Migration, Refugee Status and the Law with Professor Elspeth Guild and Dr Liza Schuster, chaired by @gillkane.bsky.social!
15 October, 17:00, online and in-person in London, sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/irregular-...
It’s publication day!
My monograph 'Irregular Migration, Refugee Status and the Law: Protection from Dangerous Migratory Journeys' is out with @routledgebooks.bsky.social: www.routledge.com/Irregular-Mi...
If you’re interested, please consider asking your institution’s library to purchase a copy.
My monograph 'Irregular Migration, Refugee Status and the Law: Protection from Dangerous Migratory Journeys' is out with @routledgebooks.bsky.social: www.routledge.com/Irregular-Mi...
If you’re interested, please consider asking your institution’s library to purchase a copy.
August 29, 2025 at 8:53 AM
It’s publication day!
My monograph 'Irregular Migration, Refugee Status and the Law: Protection from Dangerous Migratory Journeys' is out with @routledgebooks.bsky.social: www.routledge.com/Irregular-Mi...
If you’re interested, please consider asking your institution’s library to purchase a copy.
My monograph 'Irregular Migration, Refugee Status and the Law: Protection from Dangerous Migratory Journeys' is out with @routledgebooks.bsky.social: www.routledge.com/Irregular-Mi...
If you’re interested, please consider asking your institution’s library to purchase a copy.
Reposted by Dr Maja Grundler
I am looking for UK immigration law practitioners to fill in a short survey about their engagement with legal academic work. There is also an option to take part in an interview at the end. Please do consider taking part and share with your networks:
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...
July 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I am looking for UK immigration law practitioners to fill in a short survey about their engagement with legal academic work. There is also an option to take part in an interview at the end. Please do consider taking part and share with your networks:
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...
I am looking for UK immigration law practitioners to fill in a short survey about their engagement with legal academic work. There is also an option to take part in an interview at the end. Please do consider taking part and share with your networks:
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...
July 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I am looking for UK immigration law practitioners to fill in a short survey about their engagement with legal academic work. There is also an option to take part in an interview at the end. Please do consider taking part and share with your networks:
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...
My thoughts on last week's #Kinsa judgment, now on the @rli-sas.bsky.social blog: rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/06/12/t...
A powerful challenge to the criminalisation of facilitation through Charter rights, but a narrow exception to criminalisation which the Commission seems to plan to introduce anyway.
A powerful challenge to the criminalisation of facilitation through Charter rights, but a narrow exception to criminalisation which the Commission seems to plan to introduce anyway.
The CJEU’s Judgment in Kinsa: A Big Win – But for Whom? - Refugee Law Initiative Blog
Blog post by Dr Maja Grundler, Northumbria Law School* The EU’s anti-smuggling legislation – the Facilitators’ Package (comprised of Council Directive 2002/90/EC, aka the Facilitation Directive, and t...
rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk
June 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
My thoughts on last week's #Kinsa judgment, now on the @rli-sas.bsky.social blog: rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/06/12/t...
A powerful challenge to the criminalisation of facilitation through Charter rights, but a narrow exception to criminalisation which the Commission seems to plan to introduce anyway.
A powerful challenge to the criminalisation of facilitation through Charter rights, but a narrow exception to criminalisation which the Commission seems to plan to introduce anyway.
Thanks to @rli-sas.bsky.social for an amazing #RLIconf2025!
I presented my paper on 'Vulnerability Re-Trafficking and Irregular Re-Migration in the Context of Climate Change and Disasters: A Sliding Scale of Risk' and learned so much from other speakers.
I presented my paper on 'Vulnerability Re-Trafficking and Irregular Re-Migration in the Context of Climate Change and Disasters: A Sliding Scale of Risk' and learned so much from other speakers.
June 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Thanks to @rli-sas.bsky.social for an amazing #RLIconf2025!
I presented my paper on 'Vulnerability Re-Trafficking and Irregular Re-Migration in the Context of Climate Change and Disasters: A Sliding Scale of Risk' and learned so much from other speakers.
I presented my paper on 'Vulnerability Re-Trafficking and Irregular Re-Migration in the Context of Climate Change and Disasters: A Sliding Scale of Risk' and learned so much from other speakers.
Reposted by Dr Maja Grundler
Call for inputs to the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants on externalization of migration - measures to prevent migration, administrative processes beyond national borders and return through the involvement of third countries. Deadline 10 June, info at www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for...
OHCHR | Call for inputs: Externalization of Migration and the Impact on the Human Rights of Migrants
BackgroundIn recent years, externalisation has become a defining feature of migration, asylum, and border policies, particularly among high-income destination countries. This umbrella term refers to m...
www.ohchr.org
June 4, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Call for inputs to the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants on externalization of migration - measures to prevent migration, administrative processes beyond national borders and return through the involvement of third countries. Deadline 10 June, info at www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for...
Reposted by Dr Maja Grundler
The CJEU has ruled that Member States cannot prosecute asylum-seeking mothers who travelled on false documents with their children as people smugglers - in a judgment with broader implications for the criminalisation of immigration.
My analysis: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-ca...
My analysis: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-ca...
A candle in the dark: the CJEU rules against criminalising parents for smuggling their children
Professor Steve Peers , Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit : Bologna, taken by Ввласенко , via Wikimedia Commons Introd...
eulawanalysis.blogspot.com
June 4, 2025 at 7:16 AM
The CJEU has ruled that Member States cannot prosecute asylum-seeking mothers who travelled on false documents with their children as people smugglers - in a judgment with broader implications for the criminalisation of immigration.
My analysis: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-ca...
My analysis: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-ca...
Brilliant keynote by @myrmek.bsky.social at #RLIconf25, discussing how ethnographic methods can inform, inspire and improve refugee law research
June 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Brilliant keynote by @myrmek.bsky.social at #RLIconf25, discussing how ethnographic methods can inform, inspire and improve refugee law research
Really enjoyed this conference, esp Audrey Macklin’s keynote; @janinapescinski.bsky.social's talk on over-research; @nikkibusu.bsky.social & Sophie Cartwright (@jrsuk.bsky.social) speaking on disability & displacement; and presenting my work in progress on legal academic-practitioner collaboration
May 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Really enjoyed this conference, esp Audrey Macklin’s keynote; @janinapescinski.bsky.social's talk on over-research; @nikkibusu.bsky.social & Sophie Cartwright (@jrsuk.bsky.social) speaking on disability & displacement; and presenting my work in progress on legal academic-practitioner collaboration
Really looking forward to reading all of the fantastic contributions in this book! I've looked at some of them already and they are excellent. A big thank you to the editors for including my chapter ('Who Is the “Vulnerable” Victim? Trafficked and Smuggled Persons as Victims of Crime under EU Law')!
Our Intertwining #criminal justice & #migration control book v/N. Vavoula & V. Mitsilegas out in Aug! www.routledge.com/Intertwining.... Check out @ssrn.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @profjacob.bsky.social @stevepeers.bsky.social @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social @majagrundler.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Really looking forward to reading all of the fantastic contributions in this book! I've looked at some of them already and they are excellent. A big thank you to the editors for including my chapter ('Who Is the “Vulnerable” Victim? Trafficked and Smuggled Persons as Victims of Crime under EU Law')!
Reposted by Dr Maja Grundler
Shameful bullish. What's done incalculable damage is a decade of pernicious falsehoods about immigration, while people who should know better refuse to counter the lies of the increasingly normalised far right.
Let's tackle those lies:
Let's tackle those lies:
May 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Shameful bullish. What's done incalculable damage is a decade of pernicious falsehoods about immigration, while people who should know better refuse to counter the lies of the increasingly normalised far right.
Let's tackle those lies:
Let's tackle those lies:
Reposted by Dr Maja Grundler
Recognising #LivedExperience as #Expertise: a #Workshop on Inclusion in Research on Movement and Exploitation.
📅 June 6th, 10am – 4pm BST (online)
+infos & register here ➡️ asylos.org/recognising-...
Co-hosted with the Human Trafficking Research Network (HTRN) & support from Clifford Chance.
📅 June 6th, 10am – 4pm BST (online)
+infos & register here ➡️ asylos.org/recognising-...
Co-hosted with the Human Trafficking Research Network (HTRN) & support from Clifford Chance.
May 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Recognising #LivedExperience as #Expertise: a #Workshop on Inclusion in Research on Movement and Exploitation.
📅 June 6th, 10am – 4pm BST (online)
+infos & register here ➡️ asylos.org/recognising-...
Co-hosted with the Human Trafficking Research Network (HTRN) & support from Clifford Chance.
📅 June 6th, 10am – 4pm BST (online)
+infos & register here ➡️ asylos.org/recognising-...
Co-hosted with the Human Trafficking Research Network (HTRN) & support from Clifford Chance.
Reposted by Dr Maja Grundler
A group of us law academics put together a letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers UK Supreme Court ruling & we are asking other *UK based law folk* (academic activist practitioner etc) to sign
More details 👇
#transrights #trans #transgender #lawsky #academicsky #UKlaw
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
More details 👇
#transrights #trans #transgender #lawsky #academicsky #UKlaw
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
A Law Letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers
A coalition of legal academics have drafted a letter setting out our support for trans rights and our concerns about the FWS v Scottish Ministers UKSC ruling. We are opening it up for signature to ev...
docs.google.com
May 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
A group of us law academics put together a letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers UK Supreme Court ruling & we are asking other *UK based law folk* (academic activist practitioner etc) to sign
More details 👇
#transrights #trans #transgender #lawsky #academicsky #UKlaw
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
More details 👇
#transrights #trans #transgender #lawsky #academicsky #UKlaw
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Reposted by Dr Maja Grundler
Register by 15 May for the forthcoming RLI ANNUAL CONFERENCE 👇 👇 👇 Featuring keynote speakers Professor Maja Janmyr, Dr Katy Long and Dr Jeff Crisp.
"Refugee Law and Forced Migration Studies: Debates, Interactions and Futures’’ 2 - 4 June 2025, Senate House, London
rli.sas.ac.uk/rli-annual-c...
"Refugee Law and Forced Migration Studies: Debates, Interactions and Futures’’ 2 - 4 June 2025, Senate House, London
rli.sas.ac.uk/rli-annual-c...
May 6, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Register by 15 May for the forthcoming RLI ANNUAL CONFERENCE 👇 👇 👇 Featuring keynote speakers Professor Maja Janmyr, Dr Katy Long and Dr Jeff Crisp.
"Refugee Law and Forced Migration Studies: Debates, Interactions and Futures’’ 2 - 4 June 2025, Senate House, London
rli.sas.ac.uk/rli-annual-c...
"Refugee Law and Forced Migration Studies: Debates, Interactions and Futures’’ 2 - 4 June 2025, Senate House, London
rli.sas.ac.uk/rli-annual-c...
The new Special Issue of the Journal of Immigration, Asylum & Nationality Law which I co-edited with Violeta Moreno-Lax and @nikkibusu.bsky.social is out! The aim of this SI is to begin to investigate how we can translate legal academic work on immigration and asylum into practical legal arguments
March 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The new Special Issue of the Journal of Immigration, Asylum & Nationality Law which I co-edited with Violeta Moreno-Lax and @nikkibusu.bsky.social is out! The aim of this SI is to begin to investigate how we can translate legal academic work on immigration and asylum into practical legal arguments
Reposted by Dr Maja Grundler
More grim findings on the care sector, with just 45% of UK-based care workers in a global survey reporting feeling safe at work, more than a fifth reported suffering an injury at work with effects lasting more than a month and one in five satisfied with salary www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
Nearly one in five UK care workers feel unsafe while on shift, survey finds
Exclusive: ‘Wake up call’ as healthcare workers detail abuse and harassment amid fears of global staff shortages
www.independent.co.uk
March 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
More grim findings on the care sector, with just 45% of UK-based care workers in a global survey reporting feeling safe at work, more than a fifth reported suffering an injury at work with effects lasting more than a month and one in five satisfied with salary www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
Join us on 15 January 2025 at 3pm GMT for a HTRN work in progress session with @niezna.bsky.social and Dr Yahel Kurlander speaking on 'Precarious Labour in Precarious Times: Non-Citizen Workers in Israel/Palestine during the war' and @joelquirk.bsky.social as discussant!
👉 tinyurl.com/3zezwnvr
👉 tinyurl.com/3zezwnvr
Human Trafficking Research Network-ONLINE Seminar Series
Precarious Labour in Precarious Times: Non-Citizen Workers in Israel/Palestine during the war
tinyurl.com
January 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Join us on 15 January 2025 at 3pm GMT for a HTRN work in progress session with @niezna.bsky.social and Dr Yahel Kurlander speaking on 'Precarious Labour in Precarious Times: Non-Citizen Workers in Israel/Palestine during the war' and @joelquirk.bsky.social as discussant!
👉 tinyurl.com/3zezwnvr
👉 tinyurl.com/3zezwnvr
Reposted by Dr Maja Grundler
CJEU judgments in the New Year on domestic violence and asylum claims, and on the GDPR and parliamentary inquiries
Analysis of the former case by my colleague @majagrundler.bsky.social eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2023/05/ag-d...
Analysis of the former case by my colleague @majagrundler.bsky.social eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2023/05/ag-d...
December 15, 2023 at 5:39 PM
CJEU judgments in the New Year on domestic violence and asylum claims, and on the GDPR and parliamentary inquiries
Analysis of the former case by my colleague @majagrundler.bsky.social eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2023/05/ag-d...
Analysis of the former case by my colleague @majagrundler.bsky.social eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2023/05/ag-d...
I'm organising a workshop on 9 May 2024 at Royal Holloway, UoL titled 'From the University to the Grand Chamber: How can Academic Work on Asylum and Immigration have greater Impact in the European Court of Human Rights?'
Call for papers and details 👉https://tinyurl.com/3ft3fs4z
Call for papers and details 👉https://tinyurl.com/3ft3fs4z
November 3, 2023 at 11:51 AM
I'm organising a workshop on 9 May 2024 at Royal Holloway, UoL titled 'From the University to the Grand Chamber: How can Academic Work on Asylum and Immigration have greater Impact in the European Court of Human Rights?'
Call for papers and details 👉https://tinyurl.com/3ft3fs4z
Call for papers and details 👉https://tinyurl.com/3ft3fs4z
If you missed this fantastic roundtable, you can now watch it back here: youtu.be/2yyucQV7zF4
Join us on 27 October for a roundtable on 'The Role of Academic Arguments in Practical Work with Refugees and Migrants' with Zoe Bantleman, Elspeth Guild, Mark Symes, Ellen Allde, Eric Fripp and Violeta Moreno-Lax at the QMUL (B)OrderS Centre online and in-person!
Sign up here: t.co/arJkKlQxMy
Sign up here: t.co/arJkKlQxMy
(B)Orders Roundtable: Practitioners meet Academics: The Role of Academic...
Arguments in Practical Work with Refugees and Migrants
t.co
November 3, 2023 at 11:49 AM
If you missed this fantastic roundtable, you can now watch it back here: youtu.be/2yyucQV7zF4
Had a lovely visit to UCL this morning to give a guest lecture on trafficking and smuggling, incl. my research on trafficked persons' asylum claims and their implications for smuggled persons.
Thanks @yuliaioffe.bsky.social for the invitation and to your students for their great questions!
Thanks @yuliaioffe.bsky.social for the invitation and to your students for their great questions!
October 26, 2023 at 10:57 AM
Had a lovely visit to UCL this morning to give a guest lecture on trafficking and smuggling, incl. my research on trafficked persons' asylum claims and their implications for smuggled persons.
Thanks @yuliaioffe.bsky.social for the invitation and to your students for their great questions!
Thanks @yuliaioffe.bsky.social for the invitation and to your students for their great questions!
This is sold out due to new Eventbrite limits on registrations. If you want to attend online, message me for the Zoom link!
Join us on 27 October for a roundtable on 'The Role of Academic Arguments in Practical Work with Refugees and Migrants' with Zoe Bantleman, Elspeth Guild, Mark Symes, Ellen Allde, Eric Fripp and Violeta Moreno-Lax at the QMUL (B)OrderS Centre online and in-person!
Sign up here: t.co/arJkKlQxMy
Sign up here: t.co/arJkKlQxMy
(B)Orders Roundtable: Practitioners meet Academics: The Role of Academic...
Arguments in Practical Work with Refugees and Migrants
t.co
October 24, 2023 at 9:27 AM
This is sold out due to new Eventbrite limits on registrations. If you want to attend online, message me for the Zoom link!
Reposted by Dr Maja Grundler
We have already seen immigration lawyers' lives threatened directly because of this government's repetition of far-right rhetoric.
It's relentless stoking of hate is directly putting lives of people seeking safety and those whose job it is to support them at risk.
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/home...
It's relentless stoking of hate is directly putting lives of people seeking safety and those whose job it is to support them at risk.
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/home...
‘Petrified’ immigration lawyers carry safety alarms in fear of being attacked
The Government’s ‘lefty lawyer’ rhetoric will ramp up ahead of elections, lawyers warn
www.standard.co.uk
October 19, 2023 at 6:39 AM
We have already seen immigration lawyers' lives threatened directly because of this government's repetition of far-right rhetoric.
It's relentless stoking of hate is directly putting lives of people seeking safety and those whose job it is to support them at risk.
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/home...
It's relentless stoking of hate is directly putting lives of people seeking safety and those whose job it is to support them at risk.
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/home...