Calls for Papers: Diaspora in India’s Foreign Policy and National Security: A Comparative Perspective, 6–7 November 2013, New Delhi

Calls for papers:

Diaspora in India’s Foreign Policy and National Security: A Comparative Perspective, 6–7 November 2013, New Delhi

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Call for papers: Diaspora in India’s Foreign Policy and National Security: A Comparative Perspective, 6–7 November 2013, New Delhi

The Organisation for Diaspora Initiatives (ODI), New Delhi, in cooperation with Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and the India International Centre (IIC) are inviting paper proposals for the international academic conference on ‘Diaspora in India’s Foreign Policy and National Security: A Comparative Perspective’, to be held on 6–7 November 2013 in New Delhi.

Proposals (up to 250 words) should be submitted by 5 August 2013. Selected conference papers will be published in a special issue of the academic journal Diaspora Studies.

Corresponding to the need to examine emigration phenomena and diaspora-home state relations from the viewpoint of international relations (IR) theory, this conference will explore under what conditions diasporic populations can be integrated into a foreign policy framework, when they are perceived to be liabilities and how the Indian policy system attempted to harness the positive aspects, while minimizing the liability aspects.

The following issues will be explored during the conference:

•  Bane or boon? India’s and other Countries’ Diaspora as a Strategic Asset for Foreign Policy
• Influence of diasporic actors on bilateral relations with countries of their settlement;
• Diasporic lobbying, ethnic interest groups and foreign policy;
• Diasporic actions and India’s soft power.

Linkages of Foreign Policy and Diaspora Policy in India and other countries

   o Alignment and misalignment of policy objectives;

   o Institutional and ideational changes in state institutions and the Foreign Service.

Exploring the links between Diaspora Populations and National Security

   o Linkages between diaspora & terrorism;

   o Security concerns in diaspora policies.

This conference is part of a series on ‘Diasporas, States and the Role of Policies—Locating Migration and Diaspora Studies in International Relations’ that brings together international scholarship and practitioners to further our understanding of migrants and diaspora communities in international relations. The conferences encourage dialogue between a wide range of academic traditions in the area of diaspora studies, migration research, foreign policy, public diplomacy, political transnationalism, ethnic interest groups, global and regional migration governance, post-colonial theory, and democracy theory.

Paper abstracts should be submitted to office@diasporastudies.in and odiseminar@gmail.com by 5 August 2013. For more detailed information, please see the Call for Papers available at www.odi.in/announcement 

Calls for Papers: International Human Rights Law in Refugee Status Determination

Calls for Papers: International Human Rights Law in Refugee Status Determination

 We write to share news of the forthcoming conference on ‘International Human Rights Law in Refugee Status Determination: Comparative Practice and Theory’ that will take place at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, on 13 and 14 November 2013.

This 1½ day conference brings together leading experts to reflect comparatively on the practical and theoretical impact of international human rights law upon refugee status determination. Three panels will explore comparative practice from around the world and one will be addressed to broader cross-cutting thematic issues. Some further details can be found in the outline below.

For the final thematic panel, we are keen to receive additional contributions, particularly on the following broad topics and their implications for our understanding of the scope of refugee definitions: sexual and gender identity; combatants and military service; permissible limitations to rights (such as the freedom to manifest one’s religion); and internal protection/flight alternative.

If you wish to propose a paper to be presented on this panel, please submit a short abstract of up to 300 words to bruce.burson@justice.govt.nz<mailto:bruce.burson@justice.govt.nz> and david.cantor@sas.ac.uk<mailto:david.cantor@sas.ac.uk> by Friday **5 July 2013**.

Please note that presenters will be asked to submit a draft paper of 5 000-8 000 words by 1 November 2013 to enable paper-sharing in advance among the participants. Local accommodation will be offered to selected presenters, as well as a contribution towards economy travel expenses of up to £50 (UK), £150 (Europe), £500 (World). After the event, revised papers will be submitted to Martinus Nijhoff for publication in an edited collection.

The conference is organised by the Refugee Law Initiative, University of London, jointly with the Centre for Refugee Studies (York, Canada), Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program (Harvard, USA), International Refugee and Migration Law Project (UNSW, Australia), International Refugee Law Research Programme (Melbourne, Australia) and other institutions, and includes papers by prominent academics and practitioners.

Registration for the conference will be opened shortly. If you are interested in participating other than as a presenter, please email the convenors so that we can keep you informed.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

Bruce Burson

New Zealand Immigration and Protection Tribunal

David James Cantor

Refugee Law Initiative, School of Advanced Study, University of London

CONFERENCE OUTLINE:

International Human Rights Law in Refugee Status Determination: Comparative Practice and Theory

International Conference

London, 13-14 November 2013

International human rights law (IHRL) has assumed an increasingly important role in refugee status determination (RSD) over the past twenty years. At the same time, the legal consequences of this interaction remain a source of considerable contention. Whilst much of the debate has taken place in abstract and general terms, the conference seeks to shift the focus to a detailed comparative analysis of how this relationship is configured by different jurisdictions in practice.

The simple fact that RSD takes place within a wide range of different jurisdictional contexts requires a new point of departure. Indeed, these express a vast variance based, inter alia, on the refugee and IHRL instruments ratified by the country, the ways in which these have been incorporated into domestic law, the interpretation of these instruments through the lens of local legal cultures, and the differing nature of RSD procedures internationally. The conference will provide an important new perspective on the divergent ways that such factors have moulded the relationship between IHRL and refugee law at the level of national RSD practice.

As well as generating important new practical understandings of RSD, the resulting analysis will feed back into wider theoretical debates about the influence of IHRL in RSD. For instance, the obviously uneven cross-jurisdictional terrain raises serious questions about the capacity of IHRL to cohesively shape RSD at the international level. Questions about transnational processes of borrowing between different jurisdictions also arise. Whether IHRL should be used to interpret refugee law and, if so, in which of its components, is also an important issue.

Broad questions to be addressed from both theoretical and comparative perspectives include:

1. Does IHRL influence RSD in practice at the national level? If so, what are the key factors that determine the degree and nature of such influence?

2. Are there particular areas of refugee law interpretation where the influence of IHRL is especially pronounced in national practice?

3. Has the IHRL influence on RSD – and refugee law – been broadly positive or negative?

4. Does IHRL facilitate the convergence of RSD processes at the international level?

The conference provides the opportunity both for a stock-taking of transnational developments over the past twenty years and for the identification of future challenges. Given the scope of the material, it will be of interest to lawyers, judges, practitioners and scholars in the areas of refugee, human rights and EU law, as well as humanitarian workers and academics, government authorities, policy researchers and students.

Call for Papers: Perspectives on Transitions: Inter-Communal Conflict and Paths to Democratisation, Queen’s University Belfast, 13 September 2013

Call for papers:

Perspectives on Transitions: Inter-Communal Conflict and Paths to Democratisation, Queen’s University Belfast, 13 September 2013

PLEASE RESPOND TO k.cordell@plymouth.ac. and t.agarin@qub.ac.uk.

Perspectives on Transitions: Inter-Communal Conflict and Paths to Democratisation

School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy

Queen’s University Belfast

13 September 2013

Existing conceptual/theoretical perspectives on the relationship between transition (to democracy among others) and inter-communal conflict so far have not offered much perspective on the Arab Spring, let alone has there been a systematic comparative investigation of these relationships across different waves of transition. This is despite the fact that inter-communal conflict (in a broad sense conflict between distinct ethnic, religious, regional identity groups) has been an important feature of transition processes in countries like Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, and Syria, and that there are a number of striking similarities between the dynamics of transition previous waves of democratisation in Latin America, post-communist states and the Arab Mediterranean, including the fact that these transition processes have a significant dimension of international involvement. Moreover, comparative perspectives exist on the second and third waves. Thus, there is both a need and an existing framework for comparing different waves of transitions and the outcomes of such transitions with regard to democratisation from the perspective of ethnic conflict.

We invite submissions that propose to address these issues from theoretical/conceptual perspectives and through single and comparative case studies. The conference will explore a range of debates and topics related to transition and inter-communal conflict/tensions. It is open to those who wish to present work on country specific transitions, on broader patterns of regime consolidation, and on historical perspectives as well as contemporary challenges.

The conference is being organised by School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy and the Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict Queen’s University Belfast, the PSA Specialist Group on Ethnopolitics, the Centre for Sustainability, Leadership and Governance Plymouth University, the School of Government Plymouth University, Routledge, publishers of Civil Wars, Ethnopolitics and Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, published by Taylor & Francis.

We hope to provide some assistance (for travel costs and accommodation) to support attendance at the conference for accepted paper presenters.  Meals and refreshments will be available for all participants.

Paper proposals of no more than 500 words, complete with author contact details and institutional affiliation, should be submitted via
http://jotformeu.com/form/31643040835347
, by July 20. Please indicate in your submission whether you wish to be considered for conference support.

Should you have any questions, please email both, Karl Cordell (k.cordell@plymouth.ac.) and Timofey Agarin (t.agarin@qub.ac.uk)

Papers presented for publication will be considered for publication in Civil Wars, Ethnopolitics and Nationalism and Ethnic Politics.

Calls for papers: Illegality, Youth and Belonging: International Symposium

Call for Papers: Illegality, Youth and Belonging: International Symposium
Harvard University, October 25-26 2013

Illegality, youth and belonging is the second of two international symposia on legal status, rights and belonging that jointly investigate the migration and citizenship nexus in contemporary diverse societies.

We invite proposals for papers which investigate aspects related to the dual and conflicting experiences of illegality and belonging, particularly as they concern the lives of children, youth, and young adults who have grown up or spent their formative years in host countries. We welcome in particular proposals that focus on one or more of the following areas:

**Everyday experiences of ‘illegality’ among children and young people
**Intergenerational impacts of undocumented status
**The effects of widened access to rights and entitlements (e.g. DACA, financial aid, in-state tuition)
**The uneven geography of contemporary immigration policy and practice
**The political mobilizations of youth

Gender perspectives and methodological issues of research sensitivity and ethics are significant cross-cutting themes throughout these topics.

The symposia are jointly convened by Roberto G. Gonzales (Harvard University) and Nando Sigona (University of Birmingham) with the contribution of Elaine Chase, Vanessa Hughes and Jenny Allsopp (University of Oxford), Helen B. Marrow (Tufts University) and Siwen Zhang (Harvard University). The symposia are sponsored by Harvard University, the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, the University of Birmingham’s Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) and the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society and the Oxford Institute of Social Policy at the University of Oxford.

For further information about Illegality, Youth and Belonging: 
http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/pdfs/conferences/cfp-illegality-youth-belonging.pdf

 

Second CfP “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.

 

Updated Events and Opportunities

Details of these new events and opportunities were originally circulated by Elisa Mason on the incredibly useful: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog.  Further details can be found on the website at:  
http://fm-cab.blogspot.co.uk/

CFP: Irregular Migration and Southern Europe, Malmö, Sweden, 25-27 August 2013 [info]
- Abstract deadline is 31 May 2013.

Protection Interrupted: Dublin Regulation’s Impact on Asylum Seekers’ Protection, Brussels, 4 June 2013 [info]
- Registration is still open!

National Forum on Children and Young People from Refugee Backgrounds, Sydney,15-16 July 2013 [info via BroCAP]
- Registration now open.

CFP: “Disability, Asylum and Migration” [info]
- Articles sought for special issue of Disability and the Global South: An International Journal.  Submission deadline is 1 September 2013.

 

Calls for papers: Irregular migration and southern Europe, 10th Annual IMISCOE Conference, Malmö, Sweden, 25-27 August 2013

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.

** With apologies for cross-posting**

 

New Call for Papers, Events and Opportunities

Details of these new opportunites were originally circulated by Elisa Mason on the incredibly useful: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog.  Further details can be found on the website at: 
http://fm-cab.blogspot.co.uk/

Call for Panels: Third World Conference on Humanitarian Studies, Istanbul, 24-27 October 2013 [info]
- The theme of the conference is “Human Security: Humanitarian Perspectives and Responses.”  Deadline for panel proposals is 1 June 2013.

FY 2013 Funding Opportunity Announcement for Global Programs to Develop and Assess the Humanitarian Community’s Capacity to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence (GBV) within Refugee and Conflict-affected Populations [info]
- Proposal submission deadline is 5 June 2013.

Migration & Asylum Policies in Europe, Oxford, 6-7 June 2013 [info]
- Organized by the European Studies Centre.

British Journal of Social Work [info]
- Special issue on “‘A World on the Move’: Migration, Mobilities and Social Work.”  Abstract deadline is 7 June 2013.

CFP: Critical Migration Studies Stream, Critical Legal Conference, Belfast, 5-7 September 2013 [info]
- Abstract deadline is 15 June 2013.

Job Vacancy: Assistant to the International Summer School and Conferences Manager, Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford [info]
- Application deadline is 19 June 2013.

Eleventh Orientation Course on Forced Migration Studies, Kolkata, India, 8-14 December 2013 [info]
- Apply by 24 June 2013.

20 Years after the German Asylum Law Reform: Demise or Transformation of Refugee Protection?, Berlin, 28 June 2013 [info]
- No registration deadline indicated.

Intervention [info]
- Special issue on psychosocial work and peacebuilding. Submission deadline is 1 July 2013.

Gender, the Refugee and Displacement (1900-1950), Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 5 July 2013 [info]
- Registration is now open; a programme will be available at the end of the month.

Journal of Human Rights in the Commonwealth [info]
- New open access journal published by the School of Advanced Study, University of London.  Submission deadline is 31 July 2013.

Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration [info]
- Scroll to p. 101 for CFP.  Submission deadline is 14 August 2013.

Disability and the Global South: An International Journal [info]
- Special issue on “Disability, Asylum and Migration.” Submission deadline is 1 September 2013.

 

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.

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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.