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From Enforced Closure to Regulated Mobility: The Need for a Paradigm Shift in Migration Policies

Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Professor in Public International Law, Faculty of Law, McGill University
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants
Chair of the Coordination Committee of the United Nations Human Rights Special Procedures
Public Lecture at the 8th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Refugees and Forced Migration Studies Conference (CARFMS/ACERMF)
May 13 – 15, 2015, Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
From Enforced Closure to Regulated Mobility: The Need for a Paradigm Shift in Migration Policies (PDF document)