Irina Fehr is a third-year PhD candidate at Tilburg University, conducting interdisciplinary research on the invocation of criminal law in migration control at external EU borders in Croatia. Her doctoral project deals with the criminalization of migration and the potential of using criminal law to hold pushback perpetrators accountable. As part of my ethnographic fieldwork, she has spent several months with a migrant solidarity organization at the external EU borders between Croatia and Serbia, where she collected testimonies of pushback survivors. In addition to her academic work, she has volunteered with several NGOs active in the context of migration and forced displacement. Forced migration lies at the core of both her professional and personal interests.
Provisional title of PhD thesis: The role of criminal law in migration control external EU borders in Croatia: Impunity and the criminalization of migration
Affiliation: Tilburg University, Department of Criminal Law
Recent publications
- Fehr, I., & Rijken, C. (2022). Child labor among Syrian refugees in Turkey. Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 4, 10.
- Fehr, I. (2021, July). Enforcing the rights of migrants with irregular status: City ID cards as a remedy?. In cognitio–studentisches Forum für Recht und Gesellschaft (Vol. 1).
- Fehr, I. (2021). City ID Cards and their Potential for Irregular Migrants Affected by Domestic Violence. Global Europe–Basel Papers on Europe in a Global Perspective, (121), 3-18.