Calls for papers: Critical Legal Conference 5-7 Sept 2013 – Critical Migration Studies Stream

Critical Legal Conference

5-7 September

Critical Migration Studies

Deadline for proposals: 15 June

Stream Organisers: Nadine El-Enany (Birkbeck Law School), Eddie Bruce Jones (Birkbeck Law School), Satvinder Juss (King College London) and Thanos Zartaloudis (Exeter Law School).

This stream aims to gather together academics, graduate students, practitioners and activists whose work critically examines aspects of migration and the law. Through this stream we seek to carve out and further elaborate what it means to be a critical migration scholar.

While many scholars seek to assess the effectiveness of migration law and policies, this stream aims to interrogate the law as constitutive of exclusion and violence in the context of migration as well as further identify and define the field of critical migration studies.

We welcome proposals on a broad range of issues falling within this stream, including:

Refugee protest activity in and outside camps . The effect of economic crisis and austerity on the migration discourse . Critical reflections on migration law and the body . New critiques of migration law and human rights . Decolonial, feminist and queer perspectives on migration . Reconciliation and solidarity in migration advocacy . New readings of migration jurisprudence

Please send paper abstracts of 300 words to Nadine El-Enany (n.el-enany@bbk.ac.uk) or Eddie Bruce Jones (e.bruce-jones@bbk.ac.uk) before the 15 June 2013 deadline.

For more information: http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/clc2013/CallforPapersandStreams/CriticalMigrationStudies/

 

Calls for papers: Special issue of ‘Intervention’ on psychosocial work and peacebuilding

Call for papers: Special issue of ‘Intervention’ on psychosocial work and peacebuilding

Although there is increasing attention for the complex relationships between individual trauma and the larger social contexts in which they occur, we still have only a fragmented understanding about the ways in which psychosocial interventions and practices in conflict and post-conflict situations influence long-term collective social processes of peacebuilding, reconciliation and other forms of social transformation. Identifying and describing the key determinants of psychosocial projects that could contribute to wider social transformation would represent a major contribution to the field of Mental Health & Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) in post-conflict settings. In order to address the shortage of systematic attention for the links between peacebuilding and MHPSS work ‘Intervention, the International Journal of Mental Health, Psychosocial Work and Counselling in Areas of Armed Conflict’ will prepare a special issue on this topic.

The issue will contain papers produced by researchers involved in the multi-site research project: ‘Trauma, Development and Peacebuilding: Towards an Integrated Psycho-Social Approach’ led by Brandon Hamber and Elizabeth Gallagher of the International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE) at the University of Ulster, UK. This research project, that concluded in 2012, resulted in a series of case studies analysing different psychosocial initiatives in areas that have been deeply affected by violent conflict, such as Guatemala, the occupied Palestinian territories, Kashmir, Mozambique, Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka.

We would also like to add case studies from other areas. Therefore we invite articles and field reports on this topic. We are particularly interested in papers that link field-experiences with psychosocial programming and practices to theories of social transformation, peacebuilding and reconciliation. Intervention contains three types of article:

1. Peer-reviewed articles (around 5000 words): externally reviewed by three independent experts. Papers in this section usually follow the structure of scholarly papers and use the headings: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion/Conclusion).

2. Field reports (around 2500-4000 words): practice-oriented papers describing and analysing programmes or approaches in mental health and psychosocial support. The papers are reviewed by (guest) editors.

3. Personal reflections: (around 800-1600 words): short pieces exploring the relation between mental health and psychosocial work in post-conflict settings and personal life experiences of the authors.

Detailed instructions can be found in the ‘Instructions for Authors’ and on our websites (see below)

Brandon Hamber, guest editor

Elizabeth Gallagher, guest editor

Ananda Galappatti, editor

Peter Ventevogel, editor in chief

Deadline for submissions: 1 July 2013

Only electronic submissions will be accepted. See: www.editorialmanager.com/int

For more information please contact Peter Ventevogel (peter@peterventevogel.com) or visit the following websites:

www.interventionjournal.com (articles of 12 month and older, available for downloading free of charge) www.interventionjnl.com (publisher’s site).

 

Call for Papers – for a British Journal of Social Work Special Edition: ‘A World on the Move’: Migration, Mobilities and Social Work (Vol 44 Issue 4 June 2014)

Call for Papers: British Journal of Social Work Special Issue 2014

The editors of the British Journal of Social Work invite submission of abstracts for this Special Issue to be guest edited by Charlotte Williams, (RMIT University, Australia) and Mekada Graham, (California State University Dominguez Hills, USA):

‘A World on the Move’: Migration, Mobilities and Social Work (Vol 44 Issue 4 June 2014)

A world of people are on the move – including international students, economic migrants, itinerant peoples, Gypsy/Travellers, those within global care chains as well as those without proper authorisation whose irregular status leave them vulnerable to human rights violations including slavery. It is estimated that some 191 million people or 3% of the world’s population live outside of their country of birth and over half of these are women. Women migrants are particularly vulnerable to labour market exploitation, human trafficking, sexual violence and sexually transmitted diseases. Refugees fleeing natural disaster, famine, persecution and conflict form a distinct category within this movement.
Migrants and their descendants provide an important focus for consideration in that they are often over represented amongst those in need of welfare support and benefits, subject to discriminations and marginalisation and human rights abuses and importantly form a significant but undervalued core of the workforce of social service provisioning. Neither has this movement come without a significant intersection with issues of racial and ethnic discrimination, xenophobia and exacerbated social disadvantage and inequities.

This movement of peoples across and within national contexts has demanded far reaching change from within the profession, highlighting issues in interventions, in the training of social workers and in the types of research they undertake. How do contemporary debates, theorizing, writing and research reflect this? The aim of this special issue is to draw out an engagement between domestic politics of ethnic diversity and wider concerns of international migration and mobilities with the purpose of reinvigorating the debate of social work’s role in responding appropriately to this central and global concern.

This special issue invites contributions – theoretical, empirical and/or practice based which engage with the following key themes.

• The lived experiences of particular migrant groups/descendants in various country contexts and the way in which needs are being framed by wider social structural policies, attitudes and values, including access to services, issues of place and displacement and the evolution of new forms of need.
• Social work responses, including methods of intervention, culturally appropriate services, social development strategies, the development of anti-discriminatory/anti-oppressive/anti-racist practice and human rights practice, ethical dilemmas, use of technologies, the transformations within the profession itself and professionalism in working with migrant minorities and their descendents.
• Participation of migrant peoples in the delivery of mainstream welfare services, in minority organizations and within social work education. What can be said about the international movement of social /care workers and the movement of international students in social work across the world?
• Diversity, discrimination and racism: including consideration of debates about race and racism in relation to migration and mobilities, the impact of intersectionalities, and considerations of migration vis a vis indigenous status. What innovations and cross national responses are there to these issues?

Timescale for Special Issue publication: Abstracts in by June 7th 2013 Full Drafts of all papers will be due at the latest by September 27th 2013
NB: Papers may be submitted in advance of September 27th. In accordance with BJSW’s normal publication procedures, all accepted papers will be published online on the BJSW website in advance of publication in the printed volume.

This special issue will be published to synchronise with the 2014 World Conference to be held in Melbourne Australia 9 – 12th July 2014 and will reflect the core theme of the conference ‘Promoting social and economic equality’.

Guidelines for abstract submission:

Abstract proposals not exceeding 800 words in length should be sent by email to arrive no later than Friday, 7th June 2013 to Charlotte Williams, Professor and Head of Social Work RMIT
Please ensure that you include your full name and email contact details.
We look forward very much to receiving your contribution. If you have any queries, please email charlotte.williams@rmit.edu.au; or mgraham@csudh.edu.

Special Issue: ‘A World on the Move’: Migration, Mobilities and Social Work
Call for abstracts – click here to find out more

Calls for papers: Human Security and Forced Migration: Dilemmas and Prospects (Third World Conference on Humanitarian Studies/Third Istanbul Human Security Conference, 24-27 Oct 2013, Istanbul)

Source: Forced Migration Discussion List.

Call for Papers: Human Security and Forced Migration: Dilemmas and Prospects

The Third World Conference on Humanitarian Studies will be organized jointly with the Third Istanbul Human Security Conference on 24-27 October 2013  at Kadir Has University, Istanbul.  ‘Human Security and Forced Migration: Dilemmas and Prospects’ is proposed as a panel as part of this conference.

Forced migration is a concept that has many categories including refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced people. Security also involves different levels: traditional state-centric security understandings followed by new perceptions of transnational and human security. Thus, the two concepts can be analyzed on different levels and categories. Within this multi-level/category context, forced migration and security can also have a complex relationship where forced migration can be treated both as the source and product of security threats. While being a foremost ground for “responsibility to protect” against traditional understandings of state sovereignty, forced migration also has the potential for becoming a transnational problem as well as an example of human security concern.

Accordingly, the panel is open for papers that re/evaluate the relationship between the two concepts on different levels and categories. The aim is to bring the field of forced migration closer to security studies to extend both theoretical and practical proposals.

For further information about the conference, please visit:

http://www.humanitarianstudiesconference.org/

For further information regarding the panel, please consult Dr. Deniz Sert at denizsert@gmail.com

 

GRITIM-UPF launches two call for papers

GRITIM-UPF is organizing two workshops for the IMISCOE Tenth Annual Conference: Crisis and Migration – Perceptions, Challenges and Consequences taking place in Malmö, Sweden, from the 25th to the 27th of August, 2013.

The first workshop is titled: Managing migration in a multilevel context: Local diversity policies challenges in times of crisis and it is framed in the project DIVERSIDAD. The GRITIM-UPF researchers involved in the chairing of this workshop are Ricard Zapata Barrero and Núria Franco Guillén.

See the call for papers!

The second workshop is titled: Mainstream political parties and immigrants: discourses, politicization and participation and it is framed in the project DIVPOL. The GRITIM-UPF researchers involved in the organization of this workshop are Flora Burchianti, Gema Rubio Carbonero and Juan Carlos Triviño Salazar.

See the call for papers!

 

Call for Papers: “Challenging stereotypes of crisis and internal migration in the European Union” – 10th Annual IMISCOE Conference: Malmö, Sweden, 25-27 August 2013

Call for papers

Workshop “Challenging stereotypes of crisis and internal migration in the European Union”

10th Annual IMISCOE Conference: Crisis and Migration – Perceptions, Challenges and Consequences

Malmö, Sweden, 25-27 August 2013

Over the last decades, the European migratory landscape has radically changed: from receiving – and rejecting – numerous third-country nationals who looked for new opportunities in EU countries, to intense internal migration embodied by EU citizens themselves. The 2008 financial downturn and its aftermath may have partly influenced the transformation of the map of intra-EU mobilities. As Southern European countries continue to struggle to overcome Euro crises and increasing unemployment rates, internal European migration has become an option for many Southern European citizens (both European born and third-country born who have acquired citizenship).

This context proves the need to question widespread stereotypes about crisis and internal migration and implies a twofold process. Firstly, to define crisis beyond the economic, considering also its political, cultural and psychological consequences. Secondly, to reflect on multiple migratory scenarios within the EU, defined by different directions – North-South, East-West – and motivations  – pre-post crisis –  which  have led EU citizens to start experiencing ‘traditional’ immigration problems (e.g. initial settlement, language barriers and job discrimination).

This workshop aims to outline the emerging picture of primary and secondary intra-EU migrations through the prism of the 2008 financial downturn and its political, technological and socio-economic consequences. We invite submissions of abstracts that deal with these issues from interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives and multiple methods research, particularly encouraging empirical based papers. Some of the questions we would like to explore are:

-  How can we conceptualise different profiles of intra-European migrants in terms of skill level, place of birth, temporality, etc.?

-  How do intersectional variables of class, ethnicity, gender, nationality and educational level affect the experiences of mobility within Europe?

-  How do EU Member States shape different public discourses to represent intra-European migration?

-  What role does connectivity based on technologies of communication and information play in the experiences of new migrants?

Workshop Convenors: Dr Adela Ros and Cecilia Gordano (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) and Dr Rosa Mas Giralt (University of Leeds).

Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to mgordano@uoc.edu by 7th June, 2013. Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their proposals by 25th June.

The full Call for Papers for this workshop can be found at the conference website: http://tinyurl.com/Crisis-and-EU-Migration

For more information on the conference, please visit http://www.imiscoeconferences.org/

IMISCOE is an international network of research focused on migration.

 

Call for papers: SOCIAL WORK AND MIGRATION – 10th Annual IMISCOE Conference: Crisis and Migration- Perceptions, Challenges and Consequences

10th Annual IMISCOE Conference

Crisis and Migration- Perceptions, Challenges and Consequences Malmö, Sweden, 25-27 August 2013

Call for Papers

Workshop 18: MIGRATION AND SOCIAL WORK – EMERGING CONNECTIONS IN THEORY, RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

Convenors: Erica Righard [erica.righard@mah.se] and Paolo Boccagni [paolo.boccagni@unitn.it]

Migrants and their descendants are often over-represented, for a number of reasons, among the recipients – or at least the claimants – of social welfare schemes and of social work provisions. Yet, their distinctiveness as a category of users/clients of social work is relatively understudied. It also tends to be framed in overly “culturalist” terms, with scant attention to the complex interactions between different social positions in the local, national and global context. The social position of individual and collective actors might depend on such factors as legal statuses in host, origin- and other countries, various forms of resources such as economic and human capitals and social networks in the (sometimes trans-) local and national context, identities and belonging, racial and other forms of discrimination, etc. Yet, the literature on migration and welfare, in turn, has mostly centred on integration and addressed migrants’ entitlements and positions within different welfare regimes, as well as the informal social support provided by ethnic and other networks. While migrants’ overexposure to social exclusion and discrimination has been widely discussed, relatively less addressed have been social services responses to social vulnerabilities beyond a national integrationist discourse. There is still much to say about migrants’ involvement in social services in terms of everyday social practices – that is, their access to (and utilization of) social work provisions, and their careers as service users.
This workshop aims to enhance the connection between social work and migration studies, by taking stock of the literature, research and practice of social work to/with migrants and ethnic minorities in Europe. It will be a venue for comparative analysis and dialogue among researchers and practitioners in social work, having migration and ethnic diversity as an area of communal expertise and interest. This workshop aims to enhance the connection between social work and migration studies, by taking stock of the literature, research and practice of social work to/with migrants and ethnic minorities in Europe. It will be a venue for comparative analysis and dialogue among researchers and practitioners in social work, having migration and ethnic diversity as an area of communal expertise and interest.

Abstracts – about 300 words long – should be sent to Erica Righard [erica.righard@mah.se] or Paolo Boccagni [paolo.boccagni@unitn.it] by June 3rd. Deadline for sending full papers (6 000 -7 000 words long) is August 5th. Questions or clarifications prior to abstract submission should be directed to the same email addresses.

The complete Call for Papers can be found online at the conference website:

http://www.imiscoeconferences.org/ , or at the direct link: http://www.imiscoeconferences.org/images/cfp/18_migration_social%20work.pdf

Context and host

The workshop will take place at the 10th IMISCOE Annual Conference, 26 – 27 August 2013 in Malmö, Sweden, which brings together researchers from the IMISCOE (International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe) Research Network and other academic and research institutions in Europe.

Important dates

3 June 2013: Deadline for submission of paper abstracts. 12 June 2013: Notification of acceptance decisions . 1 August 2013: Deadline for IMISCOE Conference Registration.  5 August 2013: Deadline for submission of full papers .

Registration

All conference presenters must register for the conference. For more information on how to register please visit the conference website: www.imiscoeconferences.org

Travel expenses and fees

No support will be available towards the cost of accommodation and/or travel and the conference fee.

 

Call for Papers: UEL third International Development Undergraduate Conference on 9th November

Call for Papers: UEL third International Development Undergraduate Conference on 9th November

We are delighted to announce that the University of East London will be holding the third International Development Undergraduate Conference on 9th November.

The title of this years conference shall be; Development in an unequal world: Is there a path to equality?

It would be great if you would be able to attend this event and information on registering for this free event will be available shortly. We are now busy trying to spread the word about our call for papers so if you would be able to circulate the call for papers flyer attached it would be much appreciated.

Download Call for Papers

If you are a undergraduate student or have recently graduated, we would like to invite you to submit a paper to present at the conference this is a great opportunity to get academic feedback on your paper and gain experience presenting your work. (The requirements are outlined in the flyer attached).

If you have any further inquiries please feel free to get in touch; organization@uel-undergraduate-conference.co.uk.

Yours Faithfully,

Anna Klawe & Eleanor McGill
Organizers

UEL International Development Undergraduate Conference
Web: www.uel-undergraduate-conference.co.uk
Email: organization@uel-undergraduate-conference.co.uk

Call for Papers: Traveling Whiteness: Interchanges in the Study of Whiteness

2nd CFP: Traveling Whiteness: Interchanges in the Study of Whiteness

October 18-19, 2013

University of Turku, Finland

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Mike Hill (University at Albany-SUNY) Dr. Philomena Essed (Antioch University)

The study of Whiteness emerged in the United States as a field of inquiry into the historical, social, and cultural aspects of Whiteness as a source of identity formation and socio-historical power relations. During the past three decades, the notion of Whiteness has been studied from a number of inter/disciplinary, theoretical, and geographic perspectives. As the study of Whiteness has traveled across geographic locations and scholarly contexts, it has become a subject of heated debates regarding its epistemological conceptualization, theoretical delineation, and methodological applicability.

“Traveling Whiteness” calls attention to the various geographic, socio-historical, and cultural contexts within which the study of Whiteness emerges. In particular, we are seeking to explore the following questions:

Where does the study of Whiteness appear? How does the notion of Whiteness transform in its multiple locations? How does it shape our understanding of race/racism? What epistemological, theoretical, and methodological challenges does traveling bring with it? How does Whiteness transform within specific inter/national, socio-historical, and political contexts?

What possibilities and prospects does traveling entail?

Possible topics for paper presentations, complete panels, and thematic workshops may include:

*       Social Constructions of Whiteness

*       Identity Formation and Whiteness

*       Race, (Anti-)Racism, and Whiteness

*       Ideologies and Discourses of Whiteness

*       Class, Social Inequalities and Whiteness

*       Gender, Sexuality, and Whiteness

*       Spaces/Places of Whiteness

*       Representational Whiteness

*       Legislation and Whiteness

*       Sporting Whiteness

Please email abstracts of 250 words for either 20-minute paper presentations or complete panels or thematic workshops, together with a max. 150-word bio, including name, institutional affiliation and position, phone number and postal and email addresses, to travelingwhiteness@gmail.com .

Abstract Deadline: June 15, 2013. Participants will receive notifications of acceptance by July 15, 2013.

For further information, please visit the conference website at:

www.utu.fi/traveling-whiteness/

For general inquiries, please contact the Conference Coordinator Aleksi Huhta, email: aleksi.huhta@utu.fi.

The Organizing Committee at the University of Turku:

Dr. Benita Heiskanen (Turku Institute for Advanced Studies and Cultural History)

Ph.D. Candidate Aleksi Huhta (General History) Dr. Suvi Keskinen (Sociology) Dr. Lotta Kähkönen (Gender Studies) Dr. Johanna Leinonen (Turku Institute for Advanced Studies and General History).

 

Calls for papers: Disability, Asylum and Migration

Source: Forced Migration Discussion List.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Disability and the Global South

An International Journal

www.dgsjournal.org

Disability, Asylum and Migration

Guest Editors: Maria Pisani (University of Malta) and Shaun Grech (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Much has been written and documented on migration and the movements of people within and across national borders. In the light of environmental disasters, wars and conflict, food shortages, and environmental degradation, issues concerning the migration – development nexus have received considerable attention with the development literature infused within broader subjects of poverty reduction and humanitarian intervention. However, within the research and literature on forced migration one is immediately struck by the stark absence of disabled people. This absence is evident also across all of the disciplinary fields  in forced migration including international development, anthropology, global health and humanitarian action. Moreover, many countries of resettlement, such as Canada and Australia, actively exclude disabled people from their refugee and asylum programs. Critically, disability studies has yet to extensively engage with the predicament of disabled refugees and asylum seekers and their journeys across a range of geopolitical spaces. This is despite the fact that wars, conflict and environmental disasters that cause people to migrate are also a major cause of impairment and impoverishment, whilst the forced migratory passage impacts disabled people as they flee or attempt to reconstruct their lives in other places. This negligence is sustained by the virtual exclusion of disabled migrants, including Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), refugees and asylum seekers from major policy documents such as the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) and the most recent offering, the WHO/World Bank (2011) World Report on Disability.

This special issue aims to transcend disciplinary, epistemological, and other boundaries, inviting researchers, activists and practitioners to engage in critical debate around all aspects of the migration experience and disability, following journeys for asylum from global South to global North or within the global South. We are keen to hear from those in the global South, in particular empirical work that prioritises and renders visible these lives and voices, and that pushes for disability and migration as a key area of study and practice.

We encourage contributions exploring a range of themes including (not exclusively):

. Causes of forced migration among disabled people in the global South . Experiences of disabled people during exodus and post-conflict/humanitarian contexts . Intersections of disability, race, culture,  poverty, gender and legal status in the migration process . Asylum, disabled bodies, and (re)construction of disabled lives across borders . Globalisation, neoliberalism and the role of the disabled migrant in contemporary imperialism . Racism, xenophobia and the position of the disabled migrant . Medicalisation and treatment in the West . Disabled migrants in policy and practice: critical analyses . Disabled migrants in resettlement . Disability and migration in disciplines: reviews and approaches for inclusion (e.g. disability studies and migration studies) . Disabled migrants, voice, and claims for social justice

Those wishing to submit an article, please email your full manuscript to both Shaun Grech (S.Grech@mmu.ac.uk) and Maria Pisani (maria.pisani@um.edu.mt). Please insert ‘Submission for Disability and Migration Special Issue’ in the subject line. Manuscripts will be sent anonymously for double peer review, and comments and recommendations relayed to authors through the editors. Deadline for submission: 1st September 2013

 

Calls for papers: 10th Annual IMISCOE Conference: Crisis and Migration- Perceptions, Challenges and Consequences

Source: Forced Migration Discussion List.

10th Annual IMISCOE Conference

Crisis and Migration- Perceptions, Challenges and Consequences Malmö, Sweden, 25-27 August 2013

Call for Papers

Irregular migration and southern Europe

Workshop: Irregular migration and southern Europe Workshop convenors: Daniela DeBono, Russell King and Ioanna Tsoni

The aim of this workshop is to explore irregular migration in southern European countries such as Portugal, Spain, Italy, Malta, Greece, Cyprus and others. There will be an attempt to identify issues, patterns and processes common to countries in this region, as well as differences. Researchers working in this field are aware of the dearth of spaces available for such discussions. This is reflected in the lack of edited collections or special issues focusing specifically on this phenomenon in this region. If there is enough material, the papers presented in this workshop could be presented to a publisher.

Southern European countries, in particular current EU Member States, share similar migration histories, being traditionally countries of emigration but now having to deal with large numbers of immigrants. Being geopolitically located on the southern EU borders, these countries are likely to continue receiving large irregular migrant flows in spite of the current economic crisis and high unemployment. In addition, the Dublin System has created a situation whereby these countries remain ‘responsible’ for asylum seekers, including those which ‘move on’ to northern European countries. Many of these countries, with a dark track record of violations of human rights of irregular migrants, are now dealing with increasing challenges to maintain fair asylum determination systems while irregular migrants are facing increasing hostility from host communities.

Although the rationale for this workshop is built on similarities within the region, the general tendency to project ‘southern European countries’ as a homogenous area will be consciously avoided and contributions of a comparative nature highlighting differences will be welcome.

Researchers are invited to submit abstracts which broadly serve to feed into the discussion of irregular migration in southern European countries such as (but not only!) the experiences of irregular migrants in southern European countries, reactions of the host communities to irregular migrants, the development of immigration policies, state reactions to the Dublin System and Frontex, the conditions and use of migrant detention centres, access to asylum and protection benefits, participation of irregular migrants in the labour market and so on. The organisers encourage contributions from different areas of study such as migration studies, geography, anthropology, sociology, history, law, politics, human rights, economics and so on.

Abstracts should be sent to Daniela DeBono at daniela.debono@mah.se by Friday 31st May 2013. Questions or clarifications prior to abstract submission should be directed to the same email address.

The Call for Papers can be found online at the conference website:

http://www.imiscoeconferences.org/ , or at the direct link: http://tinyurl.com/ctgt83u

Context and host

The workshop will take place at the 10th IMISCOE Annual Conference, 26 – 27 August 2013 in Malmö, Sweden, which brings together researchers from the IMISCOE (International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe) Research Network and other academic and research institutions in Europe.

Important dates

. 31 May 2013: Deadline for submission of abstracts . 12 June 2013: Notification of acceptance decisions . 1 August 2013: Deadline for submission of full papers . 1 August 2013: Deadline for IMISCOE Conference Registration

Registration

All conference presenters must register for the conference. For more information on how to register please visit the conference website: www.imiscoeconferences.org

Travel expenses and fees

No support will be available towards the cost of accommodation and/or travel and the conference fee.

Events: RSC Public Seminar Series – Evidence about torture in the UK asylum system – tomorrow, 5pm, SR1, QEH

Source: Forced Migration Discussion List.

Evidence about torture in the UK asylum system Dr Toby Kelly (University of Edinburgh)

Time: 5pm, 15 May 2013

Location: Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development – QEH, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB

This presentation will examine some of the difficulties involved in the production and assessment of evidence about torture in the British asylum system.

http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/evidence-about-torture-in-the-uk-asylum-system

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Recent podcasts

Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2013

Tracks Across Sand: the dispossession of the ‡Khomani San of the southern Kalahari Hugh Brody (University of the Fraser Valley

http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/elizabeth-colson-lecture-2013

Workshop

The deportation of unaccompanied minors from the EU: family-tracing and government accountability in the European Return Platform for Unaccompanied Minors (ERPUM) project http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/erpum-workshop

Special seminar

MapAction: Geospatial support for humanitarian disasters Roy Wood (MapAction) http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/mapaction-emergency-responses-to-humanitarian-crises

 

Calls for papers: Political Geography of Refugee Camps

Source: Forced Migration Discussion List.

Panel Proposal – International Studies Association Annual Convention (March 26-29, 2014, Toronto, Canada)

We are looking for papers to include in our panel proposal for the International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention, which will take place March 26-29, 2014, in Toronto, Canada.  The conference theme emphasizes spatial dynamics, and we intend to propose a panel on “The Political Geography of Refugee Camps.”

Transnational refugee flows have obvious spatial dimensions, intertwining as they do issues of borders, territory, and sovereignty.  While most international studies research on the topic has focused on security externalities or the global refugee regime, there has been limited scholarly attention to the intersection of physical space and cross-border refugee flows.  Accordingly, this panel aims to better understand the political causes and effects of spatial patterns in refugee settlement.  For several decades, millions of refugees have resided in camps, segregated settlements, and collective centers around the world.  Not only are space, place, and distance central to the refugee experience, but appreciating the role of these factors leads us to reassess and refine previous research on the politics of refugee flows.

All paper proposals broadly related to the panel theme are welcome.  Please submit a title and abstract (<200 words) to Lamis Abdelaaty (labdel@princeton.edu) or Luara Ferracioli (luaraf@princeton.edu) by May 24, 2013.

 

Calls for Papers: The Refugee Law Initiative Working Paper Series

Source: Forced Migration Discussion List.

The Refugee Law Initiative Working Paper Series Call for Papers – April 2013

The Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) invites submissions to its Working Paper Series. The series provides for the rapid dissemination of preliminary research results and other work in progress, reflecting cross and inter-disciplinary interests within refugee law and policy, broadly defined. Recent papers have considered integration, detention and smuggling of asylum-seekers, gender-related asylum claims and long-term encampment.

RLI Working Papers are prominently displayed on the RLI website <http://rli.sas.ac.uk/research-and-publications/refugee-law-initiative-working-papers-series/> as a resource for scholars and practitioners worldwide. Papers published in the series may subsequently be published in journals or books provided that an acknowledgement is given to the RLI Working Paper Series.

Papers must be based on original research, conform to the usual standard of academic publishing, be fully referenced and presented in the standard technical format employed by the series. Papers will be evaluated based on their contemporary relevance, contribution to the field, structure and analytical rigour. Please refer to the submission guide available at <http://rlihub.sas.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/RLI-WPS-Submission-Guide.pdf>.

Submissions are considered on a rolling basis.

For further information, and to submit a paper please contact the Editor-in-Chief, Mr Ruvi Ziegler, at ruvi.ziegler@law.ox.ac.uk or r.ziegler@reading.ac.uk

Call for Papers: Transformations of border control: The politics of (im)mobility in times of crisis

We are currently accepting abstracts for our proposed workshop “Transformations of border control: The politics of (im)mobility in times of crisis”, to be organised across three workshop sessions at the 10th Annual IMISCOE Conference, 26-27 August, 2013.

The proposed IMISCOE three-session workshop will focus on the border itself as a locus of control, the control of border crossings (whether at the border or elsewhere) and recent transformations of border control, analysing these issues in the context of a perceived “crisis” of irregular immigration in comparison with the realities on the ground.

In doing so, the workshop will probe into the various contradictions of contemporary border management, including the contradiction between the stated objective to facilitate “legitimate travel” versus the objective to maintain absolute control about in- and, to a lesser extent, outflows; the contradictions emerging from the increasing shift towards risk analysis based and random selective control philosophies and the persistence of traditional control logics; and the contradictions emerging from the increasing use of human rights language by control actors and the exclusion of important aspects of control from the applicability of  (enforceable) human rights.

A second line of enquiry will focus on new and emerging modes of border control, often linked to technologies of surveillance and large-scale ICT based systems and technological fantasies suggesting that technological solutions will help to overcome inherent contradictions of border control and surveillance.

A third line of enquiry will focus on the wide range of pre-border controls established to filter out “undesirable aliens” from “bona fide” travellers before actually reaching the physical border.

Submissions from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds and theoretical perspectives are encouraged.

Please send paper abstracts of 300 words or less (along with name, contact information and affiliation) to the workshop organisers Albert Kraler (Albert.Kraler@icmpd.org<mailto:Albert.Kraler@icmpd.org>), Maegan Hendow (Maegan.Hendow@icmpd.org<mailto:Maegan.Hendow@icmpd.org>) and Ferruccio Pastore

(Ferruccio.Pastore@fieri.it<mailto:Ferruccio.Pastore@fieri.it>) by 15 May, 2013. Selected panellists will also be eligible for funding for travel to the conference; if such funding is needed, please also send a brief reasoning for the request.

Selected panellists will be informed of the selection decision by 7 June 2013 at the latest, and expected to submit their full paper by 15 August, 2013.

The full workshop description can be found under http://research.icmpd.org/fileadmin/Research-Website/IMISCOE/Transformat

ions_of_border_control_full_description.pdf, a pdf version of the call for paper is available under http://research.icmpd.org/fileadmin/Research-Website/IMISCOE/CALL_FOR_PA

PERS.pdf. For practical information and the provisional programme of the 10th Annual IMISCOE Conference see http://www.imiscoeconferences.org/.