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Philosophies of migration today face the challenge of decolonization. Despite the formal abolition of colonial rule, its historical legacy continues to shape contemporary trends in migration, border control regimes, as well as our conceptual frameworks thinking about them. This history and legacy, however, has gone largely unnoticed by dominant philosophies of migration. In this lecture I explore what it means to take seriously the decolonization challenge in philosophy and to rethink theories of migration, our conception of the migrant and the responsibilities of states, in its light.
Short bio
Eszter Kollar is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Economics at the Center for Political Philosophy and Ethics in Leuven, at the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven. She is also an active member of Ethics@KULeuven and the Diversity Committee of the Institute of Philosophy.
Her current research focuses on the political philosophy of social and global justice, the ethics of migration and refuge and the ethics of economic life. She is currently working on a book project theorizing Fairness in Labour Migration; co-authoring a research project reconciling global equality of opportunity and collective self-determination; and developing a research project on the normative implications of colonial legacies for migration justice.
Prior to her professorship in Leuven she was the Interim Chair of International Political Theory at the Goethe University Frankfurt and a Research Fellow at the Normative Orders Excellence Cluster. Befor that she was a research fellow in Political Philosophy and Bioethics at the University of Münster; Hoover Fellow in Economic and Social Ethics at the University of Louvain; and Adjunct Professor of Political Theory and International Affairs at the John Cabot University in Rome. She holds a PhD in Political Theory from the LUISS University of Rome, during which she was a graduate researcher at CAPPE - Australian National University/Charles Sturt University, at the University of Pennsylvania, and at King’s College London. She holds Master’s degrees from the Central European University and the Eötvös Lóránd University in Budapest.
