Ruben Wissing

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Ruben Wissing is a doctor of law and a legal practitioner in the field of migration. He completed a PhD on the protection of refugees in Morocco from a multidisciplinary perspective at Ghent University. He is currently working as an independent consultant in asylum and migration law and policy. He is also a teaching assistant at Ghent University in Law and Society and for the Migration Law legal clinic.  

Ruben studied Law in Leuven and Madrid, and also holds a bachelor in Philosophy. He practised as a lawyer in migration and asylum law and worked as a legal officer and policy coordinator at different Belgian non-profit organisations and as an independent consultant for European NGOs and the UN Refugees Agency (UNHCR), and was a co-founder of NANSEN, the Belgian refugee council.

Ruben’s research interests are situated at the intersection of refugee and asylum law, human rights, migration studies, sociology, history and philosophy. His scholarly work entails doctrinal analysis, socio-legal research, critical and postcolonial perspectives and alternative knowledge production. He is affiliated to the Migration Law Research Centre (MigrLaw), the Human Rights Centre (HRC) and the Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees (CESSMIR) at Ghent University, and the Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) at the School of Advanced Study of the University of London.