Chun Luk
Researcher and Assistant Professor @ University of Aruba
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Chun Luk is a researcher and Assistant Professor in Private Law at the University of Aruba since March 2022. He teaches the following courses in the academic year 2022/2023: Aruban Property Law (Goederenrecht) (Ba3) and Introduction to Human Rights (Ba3). In 2017, Chun obtained his PhD in Law at Maastricht University after successfully defending his thesis entitled “Diaspora status and citizenship rights: A comparative-legal analysis of the quasi-citizenship schemes of China, India and Suriname”. The PhD research was funded under a Marie Curie Action – Initial Training Networks project called Transnational Migration, Citizenship and the Circulation of Rights and Responsibilities (TRANSMIC). From 2014 to 2021, Chun was working at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, where he has conducted research on topics related to the EU Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (including citizenship, migration and asylum).
Geographical location : Aruba
Research Area and Interest : Private Law
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- Summary: Migration and asylum is a sensitive topic in any discussions of autonomy and sovereignty, particularly in relation to semi-autonomous regions and communities, such as the Dutch Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS), where often a delicate constitutional division of competences exists. How does this division of competences and autonomy discourse affect human rights of individuals in times of crises? Building on the work of Dietrich Jones (2021), this paper identifies the impact on human rights of asylum seekers and refugees of Aruba’s legal and policy response to the Venezuelan refugee crisis as a case study. The paper analysis this issue through a doctrinal analysis of the laws and policy instruments of Aruba, complemented by interviews with key local policymakers and stakeholders. The paper identifies the human rights obligations of Aruba in relation to asylum; sets out the division of competences of Aruba in matters of asylum; and, analyses the legal and policy response of Aruba to the Venezuelan refugee crisis in Aruba, with an emphasis on access to procedures, reception conditions and the labour rights of asylum seekers and refugees. By assessing the extent of the compliance of Aruba and the Kingdom of the Netherlands with their international obligations, the paper argues for a human rights centred approach to the autonomy discourse of semi-autonomous SIDS within and beyond crises.