Christian Prener, Assistant Professor at the Department of Law at the University of Southern Denmark, has been awarded a prestigious Carlsberg Foundation Internationalisation Research Fellowship to join the Global Citizenship research group led by Professor Maarten Vink at the Global Governance Programme at the Robert Schuman Centre, starting in April 2023 for two years.
Through its Internationalisation Fellowships the Carlsberg Foundation aims to promote the internationalisation of Danish academic and research talent. The fellowship is awarded to outstanding PhDs for uninterrupted research stays of up to two years at a leading international research institutions outside Denmark.
Assistant Professor Prener will work on a new research project titled ‘Citizenship, legal infrastructures and global mobility’ which examines how citizenship interacts with the legal infrastructures that govern how we, as humans, can move freely around the world. Based on the premise that human mobility, which has historically served as a prerequisite for cultural, economic, and human development, is largely conditioned by a series of legal structures, such as visa regulations, that are often determined by the colour of our passports, the project seeks to study empirically how citizenship affects regular and irregular mobility on the global scale.
“Today, as mobility rules impact topical issues ranging from refugee flows to climate change, it is crucial to develop novel approaches that can improve our understanding of the legal conditions that to large extent govern how we, as humans, move across the world. Studying citizenship as an integral part of a larger set of ‘legal mobility infrastructures’, I believe, holds the potential of unearthing new, exciting insights in this regard.”, explains Prener.
Christian Prener is the author of several publications on citizenship revocation including the monograph ‘Denationalisation and its discontents’ , which examines the legal, moral, and political implications posed by the Western revival of citizenship revocation in the 21st century. Prener is a former Visiting Researcher at the Faculty of Law, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR), iCourts, the Center of Excellence for International Courts, and University of Copenhagen. Prener received his PhD in law from the University of Aarhus. He has served as an advisor to the Danish Parliament, NGO’s and law firms on legislation and lawsuits related to citizenship revocation and stateless and repatriation of foreign fighters in Syria.