Veronica Corcodel

[PT] Coordenadora-Geral da NRC e Team Leader da Linha de Investigação “Migração & Sociedade Civil”.

É doutorada pela faculdade de Direito da Sciences Po (2015), em Paris, França, e é autora da seguinte monografia: Modern Law and Otherness: The Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Comparative Legal Thought (Edward Elgar, 2019). As suas áreas de interesse incluem as migrações, o direito da União Europeia, o direito internacional público, a teoria crítica, estudos sócio-jurídicos e o direito comparado. Foi professora auxiliar na Dublin City University, Max Weber Fellow no Instituto Universitário Europeu e Professora visitante na Cornell Law School, na Universidade de Turim e na Universidade do Piemonte Oriental.

A sua investigação mais recente tem incidido sobre a governação das migrações na Europa. Como investigadora no projeto FOLIE (Forms of Life and Legal Integration in Europe) explorou a relação entre o direito e as formas de vida dos migrantes, realizando trabalho de campo em Calais. Esta investigação foi realizada em colaboração com a Clínica de Migração da Sciences Po por si coordenada. Trabalha atualmente na detenção de imigrantes e na abordagem Hotspot, procurando explorar, através de uma perspetiva crítica, as implicações da construção de espaços para os migrantes no Direito da União Europeia.

[EN] NRC General Coordinator and Team Leader of the Line of Research “Migration & Civil Society”.

She holds a PhD from Sciences Po Law School (2015) and is the author of a recently published monograph Modern Law and Otherness: The Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Comparative Legal Thought (Edward Elgar, 2019). Her areas of interest include migration, European and International law, critical theory, socio-legal studies and comparative law. Veronica was an Assistant Professor at Dublin City University and a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute. She was also a Visiting Scholar at Cornell Law School, the University of Turin and the University of Piemonte Orientale. 

Her most recent research has focused on the governance of migration to Europe and its relationship with migrants’ struggles. As a researcher in the FOLIE (Forms of Life and Legal Integration in Europe) project, conducted under the auspices of Sciences Po Law School, she has explored the relationship between law and migrant forms of life, focusing specifically on the context of the Calais camp. Her work was conducted in collaboration with the Migration Clinic of Sciences Po Law School, which she co-coordinated. She is currently working on immigrant detention and the Hotspot approach, seeking to further explore the implications of the construction of migrant spaces in European law from a critical perspective.