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.
We are pleased to announce that Paweł Kaczmarczyk, has been honored with the Internationalisation Star award as a Research Star. The prize is awarded to people with great achievements in making Polish academia internationally oriented.more
Five distinguished researchers and experts from Ukraine discuss the response of Ukrainian cities related to the arrival of internally displaced people (IDPs). Recording available on YouTube. more