Organized by the Jean Monnet Chair in Legal Aspects of Migration Management in the European Union and in Türkiye, the Migration Talks-VII conference was held on the 20th of April, 2026. Diego Acosta Arcarazo is a Professor of European and Migration Law at the University of Bristol Law School, UK. He has authored over 80 academic works and has consulted for various governments and international organisations worldwide.
Governments worldwide engage in a variety of treaties to regulate the movement of people, which either impose restrictions or make mobility easier. However, the treaties facilitating movement are not properly categorized. Instead, scholars and policymakers often pile them up under the wider umbrella of free movement. The Freemove project, supported in part through a grant from the Open Society Foundations, is the first one ever to comprehensively map, analyze, and compare all bilateral and multilateral free movement of people regimes at the global level. Users can access information about each regime, see how they have evolved over the last 30 years, compare them with others, and assess trends in this crucial area which affects the rights of millions of people in situations of human mobility. The website is available here: www.freemovehub.com
