mr. dr. Lieneke Slingenberg

Lieneke Slingenberg is Associate-Professor and head of the Section Migration Law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She received her LL.M. in International Law and Constitutional and Administrative Law in 2005 (cum laude) and her PhD in 2012, both at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. From February to June 2018 she was a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS-KNAW). In 2018 she was awarded a Veni grant by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for her research project entitled 'Human Rights Law, Non-Domination and Spatial Restrictions for Refugees'.

Lieneke is involved in (bachelor- and master) courses on migration law and human rights and offers on a regular basis training courses for professionals in the field of migration law. In her research she focuses on the intersections between social security law and migration law, in particular on the social rights of irregular migrants, asylum seekers and refugees.

Lieneke Slingenberg has published widely on the social rights of irregular migrants, asylum seekers and refugees. In her work, she analyses how states use the provision of and/or exclusion from social rights as an instrument of migration control and how this relates to human rights law and political theory. In 2014 she published a monograph, based on her doctoral research, on state obligations under refugee law, international social security law and international human rights law with regard to the reception of asylum seekers (Hart Publishing). In her new research project (2019-2022), funded by NWO, she will investigate the (lack of) domestic, European and international regulation of spatial restrictions imposed on refugees and (rejected) asylum seekers, in the light of human rights law and the theoretical concept of freedom as non-domination.

Lieneke Slingenberg is involved in the following courses/programs:

• Master's track International Migration and Refugee Law 
• Minor Law and Global Society: Internet, Migration and Climate Change (B3)
• Fundamental Rights in Europe (B2)
• Supervision of bachelor's and master's theses

• Veni grant, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), July 2018

Research project: 'Human Rights Law, Non-Domination and Spatial Restrictions for Refugees' (duration 2019-2022).
Veni is part of the Incentives Scheme. It allows outstanding researchers to conduct independent research and develop their ideas.

• NIAS fellowship, February - June 2018

The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS-KNAW) offers fellowships to selected researchers in order to stimulate advanced research and scientific innovation. 

•  Grant from Gezina van der Molenfonds, 2014

The Gezina van der Molenfonds of the Faculty of Law of the Vrije Universiteit offers grants to selected female researchers in order to stimulate their career.

• Rechtspraak Vreemdelingenrecht | Onbekend | Redacteur van Jaarlijkse bundel met jurisprudentie | 2013-12-02 - 2014-12-31
• Vluchtelingenwerk Nederland | Amsterdam | Adviseur | 2013-12-02 - present
• Asiel&Migrantenrecht | Amsterdam | Member of the editorial board | 2015-05-01 - present
• St. Fonds Rechtsbescherming Immigranten | Utrecht | Bestuurslid | 2016-06-01 - present

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