dr Tomasz Sieniow

t.sieniow
@uw.edu.pl

Tomasz Sieniow is an assistant professor of Law at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, where he teaches European Union and migration law. He serves as a coordinator of the University Refugee Legal Clinic. A graduate of the Catholic University of Lublin (MA in Law -1997, PhD in 2004) and Chicago-Kent College of Law (Master of Laws in International and Comparative Law – 2000). Tomasz Sieniow was a founder and is a president of the board of the Rule of Law Institute – an non-profit NGO based in Lublin providing legal aid to migrants and refugees in Poland. He has been monitoring the Polish immigration detention system (“Migrants have the right to have rights” project funded by the EEA) and return policy under Forced-Return Monitoring III (FReM III) project implemented by ICMPD.   He is a member of the Committee of Experts for Migrants at the Polish Ombudsman’s Office. He also serves as a Consultor at the Council for Migrants of the Polish Catholic Bishops’ Conference. Since May 2023 he has been an associated researcher (Horizon project “GAPs – De-centring the Study of Migrant Returns and Readmission Policies in Europe and Beyond”) at the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw.

Selected publications

• Mateusz Krępa, Marta Pachocka, Tomasz Sieniow, Anna Trylińska, Marta Jaroszewicz, GAPs Policy Brief: The Policies of Return Migration in Poland: A Need for a More Systematic Approach
• Mateusz Krępa, Marta Pachocka, Anna Trylińska, Tomasz Sieniow, Marta Jaroszewicz, Return Migration Infrastructures in Poland and Georgia – WP3 Country Dossier.
• Mateusz Krępa, Marta Pachocka, Anna Trylińska, Tomasz Sieniow, Externalisation of EU Migration Policies: The Case of Cooperation in the Georgian Citizens’ Returns from Poland (v.1)
• Anna Trylińska, Tomasz Sieniow, Marta Pachocka, Dominik Wach, Legal and Policy Infrastructures of Returns in Poland – Country Dossier (WP2)

Research projects

• De-centring the Study of Migrant Returns and Readmission Policies in Europe and Beyond (GAPs) (duration: 2023 - 2026)