Dr Jessica Schultz

Bio

Jessica Schultz is a legal researcher based at the Chr. Michelsen Institute and UiB's Faculty of Law. Her recent work focuses on the concept of vulnerability in migration law, cessation of refugee status, refugee resettlement and temporary protection. She is currently lead researcher for the Norwegian Research Council-funded project: Temporary Protection as a Durable Solution? The ‘return turn’ in asylum policies in Europe (TemPro), which is a collaboration between anthropologists and legal scholars exploring how temporariness is produced in law and how it is experienced by refugees in Denmark, Norway, the UK and Germany. Together with Marry-Anne Karlsen, she edits the resource page on Interdisciplinarity in Migration Research. She also co-hosts, with Kari Anne Drangsland, the podcast Refugee Law and Refugee Lives.

Other current projects include:

• The Future of Resettlement: Vulnerability Revisited (NFR, 2021-2024)
• VULNER: Vulnerabilities under the global protection regime (EU Horizon 2020, 2020-2023)

Select publications

• The temporary turn in Norwegian asylum law and practice (2022)
• An end to asylum? Temporary protection and the erosion of refugee status (2020)
• The internal protection alternative in refugee law (2019)