Call for Papers: Deadline Reminder! International Conference: on Migration and Well-Being

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Call for Papers

International Conference: Migration and Well-Being: Research Frontiers

Tel Aviv University, Israel

January 8-10, 2013

We invite paper submissions for the International Conference on Migration andWell-Being organized by Tel Aviv University and RC31.

International Advisory Committee

David Bartram, University of Leicester, UK

Peter Kivisto, Augustana College, USA

Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College, USA

Marco Martiniello, University de Liege, Belgium; FRS-FNRS

Ewa Morawska, University of Essex, UK

Israeli Organizing Committee

Adriana Kemp, Tel Aviv University

Noah Lewin-Epstein, Tel Aviv University

Moshe Semyonov, Tel Aviv University

Sergio DellaPergola, Hebrew University

Rebeca Raijman, University of Haifa

Keynote Speaker: Professor Doug Massey, Princeton University

The conference will address such issues as:

- Economic and psychological well-being of immigrants

- Social exclusion and xenophobia

- The contribution of immigrants to the well-being of the local population, particularly the aging

- The role of remittances in improving the welfare of immigrant families

- Well-being of asylum seekers and refugees

- Education and children of immigrants

- Migration policies and the well-being of immigrants

Papers relevant to the main theme of the conference, Migration and Well-Being, will be particularly welcome. Other papers will be considered as well, space permitting.

Submission of Papers

All paper presenters should submit an application consisting of the following two items:

a) Name of Author(s) and affiliation(s)

b) A short abstract (maximum of 500 words)

Please upload your abstract here, or send it as an attachment to migration.conference@gmail.com.

 

Deadline for submission: **May 15, 2012**

Decisions will be sent out: June 30, 2012

For more information on the conference, please visit our website.

Event & Call for Papers: Understanding the migrant experience

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Please find below a call for papers for our forthcoming postgraduate research conference on ‘Understanding the migrant experience’.

The conference will take place at Swansea University’s Centre for Migration Policy Research (CMPR) from 25th-26th June 2012 and provides an opportunity for postgraduate students researching migration and the experiences of migrants (including forced migrants) to further explore the themes of our recent ESRC Research Seminar Series, and to showcase their work.

The deadline for proposed papers has been extended to **9th May 2012.** Please circulate widely!

Best wishes

Professor Heaven Crawley
Director, Centre for Migration Policy Research

ATTACHMENT:

‘Understanding the migrant experience’, Postgraduate Research Conference: 25th-26th June 2012 to be held at the Centre for Migration Policy Research (CMPR) Swansea University, Wales, UK

CALL FOR PAPERS

During 2009-10, the Centre for Migration Policy Research (CMPR) at Swansea University held a series of events as part of an ESRC Research Seminar Series on the theme of ‘Understanding the migrant experience’. Details of the seminar series and briefing papers on each of the events can be found at www.swansea.ac.uk/cmpr/events/seminars

This conference provides an opportunity for postgraduate students researching migration and the experiences of migrants to explore the seminar themes in more detail and to showcase their work. Additionally, but by no means less important, the conference will contribute to broader academic and policy discussions, increasing awareness and understanding of the migrant experience and its importance in policy making and political debates.

Papers on all aspects of the migrant experience are invited from postgraduate students at all stages of their research and across all academic disciplines. Interdisciplinary contributions are particularly welcome. The conference themes are:

- What is the ‘migrant experience’? Theorising the concept

- Methodological issues in researching the migrant experience

- The role of gender, age, class and race in shaping ‘the migrant experience’

- The arts as a tool for understanding the experience of migrants

- The politics of representation

- How the migrant experience can inform the policy making process

- Different aspects of migrant experience, for example, the journey, immigration processes, detention, integration

There is no conference fee and overnight accommodation will be provided for all participants on 25th June. Participants are expected to cover their travel expenses and any additional accommodation costs. Refreshments and lunches will be provided.

The deadline for abstracts is **9th May 2012.** Proposals should be in the form of a Word document of no more than 300 words and should include the title of your proposed paper and full contact details. Please send your proposal to migration@swansea.ac.uk

Further information about the conference is available from Bozena Sojka at b.i.sojka-koirala.595224@swansea.ac.uk, telephone +44 7890735317 or + 357 99717019

Call for Papers: Refugee Studies Centre 30th Anniversary Conference,

RSC 30th Anniversary Conference

From the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford:

Refugee Studies Centre 30th Anniversary Conference,
‘Understanding Global Refugee Policy’
Call for Papers

The Refugee Studies Centre’s 30th Anniversary Conference will take place on 6-7 December 2012, focusing on the theme ‘Understanding Global Refugee Policy’.

This conference aims to examine and theorise the policy-making processes relating to refugees and forced migration at the global level. Critical reflection upon the processes through which global public policy on refugees, internally displaced persons, statelessness, human trafficking, and other areas of forced migration is made is intended to offer new and valuable insights for scholars, policy makers and practitioners.

This conference therefore provides a forum for a critical discussion on ‘Understanding Global Refugee Policy’ by bringing together academics, policy makers, practitioners, advocates and displaced people to engage in a debate on how we might begin to make sense of and conceptualise the global refugee policy process. It seeks to explore the nature, content and implications of
‘global refugee policy’ with questions such as: What is ‘global refugee policy’? How can we theorise global refugee policy? What factors explain variation both in the motivations for policies, and in outcomes? To what extent do the diverse interests and priorities of key stakeholders shape global refugee policy, and to what effect?

The conference invites contributions that explore any aspect of the policy-making process: emergence, negotiation, development, implementation, and outcomes, examining global policy at the multilateral, regional, bilateral, or transnational levels. It invites reflections from politics, law, history, anthropology, and sociology, and seeks to involve contributors with case
specific studies in addition to those with a broad focus on regional, bilateral, international and global policy-making processes.

Papers might fall within one or more of the following categories:

1) Reflections
In order to lay the foundations for a critical academic understanding of global refugee policy processes, the conference invites
reflection pieces on the experience of working on or within regional, bilateral, international and global refugee policy. Such
reflections may explore the intersection between and across these different levels of policy making and implementation.

2) Case Studies
Papers might revisit important ‘moments’ or processes in which attempts to

Call For Papers

develop global refugee or forced migration policies have emerged, such as in relation to the Global Consultations, CIREFCA, the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement,Australia’s “Pacific Solution”, the EU Asylum Qualification Directive, or the role of international actors in influencing national refugee legislation, for example.

3) Theories of Process
Papers might focus on conceptualising, theorising and critiquing aspects of the policy process in particular areas of refugee or forced migration policy. They may seek to explain variation in outcomes or they may aim to conceptualise how power, interests and ideas shape policy and its relationship to practice, or to examine how particular actors play particular roles in different
stages of the policy process.

Abstracts of no more than 200 words should be submitted to:
Heidi El-Megrisi: rsc-conference@qeh.ox.ac.uk by 1 July 2012 at the latest.

Call for papers: International Conference on Migration and Well-Being

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Call for Papers

International Conference: Migration and Well-Being: Research Frontiers
Tel Aviv University, Israel
January 8-10, 2013

We invite paper submissions for the International Conference on Migration
andWell-Being organized by Tel Aviv University and RC31.

International Advisory Committee
David Bartram, University of Leicester, UK
Peter Kivisto, Augustana College, USA
Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College, USA
Marco Martiniello, University de Liege, Belgium; FRS-FNRS
Ewa Morawska, University of Essex, UK

Israeli Organizing Committee
Adriana Kemp, Tel Aviv University
Noah Lewin-Epstein, Tel Aviv University
Moshe Semyonov, Tel Aviv University
Sergio DellaPergola, Hebrew University
Rebeca Raijman, University of Haifa

Keynote Speaker: Professor Doug Massey, Princeton University

The conference will address such issues as:
- Economic and psychological well-being of immigrants
- Social exclusion and xenophobia
- The contribution of immigrants to the well-being of the local population,
particularly the aging
- The role of remittances in improving the welfare of immigrant families
- Well-being of asylum seekers and refugees
- Education and children of immigrants
- Migration policies and the well-being of immigrants

Papers relevant to the main theme of the conference, Migration and
Well-Being, will be particularly welcome. Other papers will be considered as
well, space permitting.

Submission of Papers
All paper presenters should submit an application consisting of the following
two items:
a) Name of Author(s) and affiliation(s)
b) A short abstract (maximum of 500 words)

Please upload your abstract at
http://socsci.tau.ac.il/migration/conference/index.php/call, or send it as an
attachment to migration.conference@gmail.com

Deadline for submission: May 15, 2012
Decisions will be sent out: June 30, 2012

For more information on the conference, please visit our website at
http://socsci.tau.ac.il/migration/conference/.

Call for Papers: Internatio​nal Conference on Migration and Well-Being​

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Call for Papers
International Conference: Migration and Well-Being: Research Frontiers
Tel Aviv University, Israel
January 8-10, 2013

We invite paper submissions for the International Conference on Migration and
Well-Being organized by Tel Aviv University and RC31.

International Advisory Committee
David Bartram, University of Leicester, UK
Peter Kivisto, Augustana College, USA
Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College, USA
Marco Martiniello, University de Liege, Belgium; FRS-FNRS
Ewa Morawska, University of Essex, UK

Israeli Organizing Committee
Adriana Kemp, Tel Aviv University
Noah Lewin-Epstein, Tel Aviv University
Moshe Semyonov, Tel Aviv University
Sergio DellaPergola, Hebrew University
Rebeca Raijman, University of Haifa

Keynote Speaker: Professor Doug Massey, Princeton University

The conference will address such issues as:

- Economic and psychological well-being of immigrants
- Social exclusion and xenophobia
- The contribution of immigrants to the well-being of the local population,
particularly the aging
- The role of remittances in improving the welfare of immigrant families
- Well-being of asylum seekers and refugees
- Education and children of immigrants
- Migration policies and the well-being of immigrants

Papers relevant to the main theme of the conference, Migration and
Well-Being, will be particularly welcome.
Other papers will be considered as well, space permitting.

Submission of Papers
All paper presenters should submit an application consisting of the following
two items:
a) Name of Author(s) and affiliation(s)
b) A short abstract (maximum of 500 words)

Please upload your abstract at
http://socsci.tau.ac.il/migration/conference/index.php/call, or send it as an
attachment to migration.conference@gmail.com

Deadline for submission: **May 15, 2012**
Decisions will be sent out: June 30, 2012

For more information on the conference, please visit our website:
http://socsci.tau.ac.il/migration/conference/.

Call for Papers: Special 60th Anniversary Issue: “Is the 1951 Convention Outdated?”

Details from the Forced Migration Discussion List.

Call for Papers:   Special 60th Anniversary Issue: “Is the 1951 Convention Outdated?”

Many commentators who criticise the alleged widespread abuse of the refugee protection system point to the 1951 Geneva Refugee Convention as the source of the problem. Its supposed generosity constrains government actions and allegedly prevents the adoption of measures that would make the system more effective and efficient. If we consider developments in global modes of transportation and border controls, it becomes apparent that conditions have changed considerably since governments adopted this historic treaty following the Second World War. It is therefore not surprising that the Refugee Convention’s relevance has been questioned in recent years. Yet a closer look at the Convention reveals that it does not include anything relating to status determination procedures which constitute the most burdensome aspect of protection in many rich countries. It does not even guarantee a right to asylum for persecuted people who are granted refugee status. Have national procedures become inefficient because of the Convention or do other factors explain this situation?

The common response from advocates and academics suggests that any opening of discussions on the Refugee Convention will result in diminishing standards which will leave refugees with even less protection. Aside from legitimate fears about a general lack of solidarity and generosity, what specific forms of protection offered in the Convention risk being abandoned? Is there any fundamental right in this refugee treaty that would be threatened or that is not already covered in other areas of international law? Recent cases suggest courts have relied to a large extent on other human rights treaties to provide actual legal protection. What particular reasons lead advocates to prefer the status quo with regards to the Refugee Convention?

For its special issue on the 60th anniversary of the Refugee Convention, REFUGE invites submissions that explore the debate surrounding the relevance of this historic treaty. In particular, we are interested in papers that recognise the diverging assessments in order to propose approaches that might address current and future problems in a more effective manner.

Submission Deadline: **March 30, 2012**

For more information, visit the Refuge web site at http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/refuge/index.

Call For Papers: Migration Studies

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CALL FOR PAPERS: MIGRATION STUDIES

Migration Studies is a new multi-disciplinary refereed journal from Oxford University Press. It will publish work that significantly advances our understanding of the determinants, processes and outcomes of human migration in all its manifestations.

Migration has always defined human populations, and today it is one of the most powerful currents shaping global society. In recent decades, the increasing scope, complexity and salience of human migration have inspired new conceptual and policy vocabularies, and stimulated ground-breaking research efforts across many different academic disciplines.

Migration Studies will contribute to the consolidation of this still-fragmented field of study, developing the core concepts that link different disciplinary perspectives on migration, and bringing new voices into ongoing debates and discussions. Drawing on the expertise and networks of a Global Editorial Board of senior migration scholars, the journal will publish articles of exceptional quality and general interest from around the world.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Migration Studies invites papers that contribute substantively to a core scholarly discipline or sub-discipline, while engaging with migration research in other disciplines. Papers will be reviewed through a global editorial board including senior scholars in each of the following fields:

*Anthropology

*Demography

*Economics

*Forced Migration

*Geography

*History

*International Relations

*Sociology

*Political Science

The editorial team also welcomes book reviews, special issue proposals, and ideas for presenting content in new ways.

HOW TO SUBMIT A PAPER

Please send submissions or expressions of interest to migration.studies.oup@gmail.com.

Warm regards,

The Editorial Team: Alan Gamlen (Editor), Alexander Betts, Thomas  Lacroix, Emanuela Paoletti, Nando Sigona and Carlos Vargas-Silva (Associate Editors).

Refugee Studies Centre 30th Anniversary Conference – Call for Papers

 

Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford 30th Anniversary Conference: ‘Understanding Global Refugee Policy’

Call for Papers

The Refugee Studies Centre’s 30th Anniversary Conference will take place on 6-7 December 2012, focusing on the theme ‘Understanding Global Refugee Policy’. This conference aims to examine and theorise the policy-making processes relating to refugees and forced migration at the global level. Critical reflection upon the processes through which global public policy on refugees, internally displaced persons, statelessness, human trafficking, and other areas of forced migration is made is intended to offer new and valuable insights for scholars, policy makers and practitioners.

This conference therefore provides a forum for a critical discussion on ‘Understanding Global Refugee Policy’ by bringing together academics, policy makers, practitioners, advocates and displaced people to engage in a debate on how we might begin to make sense of and conceptualise the global refugee policy process. It seeks to explore the nature, content and implications of ‘global refugee policy’ with questions such as: What is ‘global refugee policy’? How can we theorise global refugee policy? What factors explain variation both in the motivations for policies, and in outcomes? To what extent do the diverse interests and priorities of key stakeholders shape global refugee policy, and to what effect?

The conference invites contributions that explore any aspect of the policy-making process: emergence, negotiation, development, implementation, and outcomes, examining global policy at the multilateral, regional, bilateral, or transnational levels. It invites reflections from politics, law, history, anthropology, and sociology, and seeks to involve contributors with case specific studies in addition to those with a broad focus on regional, bilateral, international and global policy-making processes. Papers might fall within one or more of the following categories:

Reflections

In order to lay the foundations for a critical academic understanding of global refugee policy processes, the conference invites reflection pieces on the experience of working on or within regional, bilateral, international and global refugee policy. Such reflections may explore the intersection between and across these different levels of policy making and implementation.

Case Studies

Papers might revisit important ‘moments’ or processes in which attempts to develop global refugee or forced migration policies have emerged, such as in relation to the Global Consultations, CIREFCA, the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, Australia’s “Pacific Solution”, the EU Asylum Qualification Directive, or the role of international actors in influencing national refugee legislation, for example.

Theories of Process

Papers might focus on conceptualising, theorising and critiquing aspects of the policy process in particular areas of refugee or forced migration policy. They may seek to explain variation in outcomes or they may aim to conceptualise how power, interests and ideas shape policy and its relationship to practice, or to examine how particular actors play particular roles in different stages of the policy process.

Abstracts of no more than 200 words should be submitted to:

Heidi El-Megrisi:  rsc-conference@qeh.ox.ac.uk  by 1 July 2012 at the latest.