Alezini Loxa is one of five researchers selected for this year’s RJ Pro Futura program, carried out in collaboration with the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS).
About the project
EU law is structured around a fundamental distinction between EU and non-EU citizens. This binary is mirrored in EU migration law scholarship, which has developed along two distinct tracks—each focusing on different legal acts and historical developments. Both strands assume that EU law facilitates the transnational mobility of EU citizens while restricting the movement of non-citizens. They treat nationality as the decisive factor for determining entry and residence rights across the EU, but present security as the key concern in the regulation of entry from outside the Union. By bringing together previously separated legal and historical archives, this project challenges the bifurcation in EU migration law scholarship and the assumptions that sustain it. The overarching aim of the project is to offer a historically grounded, integrated account that explains the normative foundations of EU migration law.
Read more about Alezini Loxa’s research in Lund University’s research portal and in the press release on the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond website.