We are very proud that Lieneke Slingenberg has been the recipient of a NWO Veni grant for research on human rights and refugees.
Lieneke received the grant for her research project “Human Rights Law, Non-Domination and Spatial Restrictions for Refugees”, dealing with how European states increasingly subject refugees and (rejected) asylum seekers to spatial restrictions. This implies that states employ coercion to limit refugees’ possibility to leave or stay in a particular location, including evictions, forced transfers, destructions of dwellings and penalties for leaving an assigned residence. Lieneke Slingenberg will investigate the (lack of) domestic, European and international regulation of such restrictions and if and how the legal system can provide better protection against domination: the possibility of arbitrary interference.
The Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Veni is a grant for researchers who have recently obtained their PhD to conduct independent research and develop their ideas for a period of three years. The Veni is awarded by Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO) every year. A total of 1,115 researchers submitted an admissible research proposal for funding. In this round, 154 of these have been granted.