RTG 2987: Mobility Rights in
the Global Context of Multiple Crises

Hardly any other issue of such global scale is so tightly interwoven with notions of “crisis” as migration. Besides the causal dimension, migration itself has been increasingly problematised as “crisis”. Additionally, in a global context of multiple crises mobility rights in their weakly codified form increasingly find themselves under severe pressure, being confronted with new demands from growing mobile populations and contested by noticeable cut backs.
The RTG takes this migration–crisis nexus as its starting point, using “crisis” as a heuristic lens showcasing the structural fragility of mobility rights. By assuming the co-constitutive character of law and society, the RTG will thus focus on how human mobilities – be they internal or cross-border – are conceptualised or (un)regulated by law and how rights are practised, contested, claimed and hence develop over time.