Convenors:
Prof. Peter L. Patrick
Language & Linguistics
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
CO4 3SQ
Essex, UK
+44 (0) 1206 872088

Prof. Monika Schmid Language & Linguistics University of Essex & University of Groningen
+44 (0) 1206 872089  

Dr. Karin Zwaan
Centre for Migration Law Radboud University Nijmegen P.O. Box 9049
6500KK Nijmegen
the Netherlands
+31 24 361.2934

E-mail: larg@essex.ac.uk

Introduction

ESRC LADO Network

The ESRC LADO Network is a network of researchers established through the UK Economic and Social Research Council grant no. RES-451-26-0911 to Prof. Peter L. Patrick of the University of Essex Dept. of Language & Linguistics and Human Rights Centre, in order to conduct a series of Research Seminars. The theme is "Language Analysis of Asylum Applicants: Foundations, Guidelines & Best Practice", and the meetings are to be held in 2011-12 at the University of Essex.

 

Participant Biography

Karin Zwaan

... is the academic coordinator of the Centre for Migration Law, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She teaches Dutch migration law and refugee law at that university.

She wrote her thesis on the safe third country exception (2003) and has published widely on  refugee issues, including books on UNHCR and the European Asylum Law (2005), the Qualification Directive (2006), the Procedures Directive (2007) and the use of language analysis in the Dutch asylum procedure (2008).

She was co-organizer of the 2010 European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop on Language and origin: The role of language in European asylum procedures with Pieter Muysken and Maaike Verrips, and together they edited the proceedings volume:

Email:  k.zwaan           Please add:  @jur.ru.nl