Off Air Recordings: WB 07/03/2009

Details of the off-air recordings requested for the Refugee Archive for the week beginning Saturday 07 March, 2009 are detailed as follows:

Saturday 7 July

2100-2230: BBC2: The Satanic Verses Affair.  6587

Sunday 8 March

0200-0300: Channel 4: Death in the Bay: the Cockle-Picker’s Story.  32828  (early hours of Monday morning).

Monday 9 March

2030-2100: BBC1: Panorama – Immigration: Time for an Amnesty? 4016

Friday 13 March

1935-2000: Channel 4: (1/9) Unreported World.  (Congo – Forest of the Dead). 329145  Whole Series Requested

Revised Saturday Openings (New Date in April)

Since my earlier posting regarding Saturday openings for the Refugee Archive during Semester B 2009, I am now able to confirm that the Archive will now be open on a Saturday in April to tie-in with The 6th Annual Forced Migration Student Conference**.

I hope these dates will be fixed now but if the need arises for any alterations then these will be advertised well in advance.

The Archive will therefore be open on the following Saturdays during the times listed:

• Saturday 7 March: 10am-5pm
• Saturday 28 March: 10am-5pm
• Saturday 25 April: 10am-5pm**.
• Saturday 9 May: 10am-5pm
• Saturday 16 May: 10am-5pm
  

These dates are also available on our web site at:

http://www.uel.ac.uk/rca/using-rca.htm#saturday

If you have any comments, then please let us know my leaving a reply to this posting or by contacting us at: library-archives@uel.ac.uk.

** Further details on The 6th Annual Firced Migration Student Conference can be found be clicking on the following link:

http://www.uel.ac.uk/ssmcs/programmes/postgraduate/refugeestudies/FMSC09.htm

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Reminder: InFluxEvent@UniversityofEastLondon

In Flux Event @

University of East London

The Refugee Research Centre/UEL invite you to IN FLUX, the culmination of artist Marie Ange Bordas’ Leverhulme Residency at UEL.

During her time at UEL, the artist has developed work around displacement and belonging through informal encounters with students and use of the Refugee Archive resources. She has also collaborated with Anita Fábos on her MA and undergraduate refugee modules, with the aim of stimulating students to challenge their assumptions about the research process and to encourage them to find new approaches to interact with people and explore concepts.

The event will open on December 10th at 17:00 in Matrix East when Marie Ange will show part of the artwork she produced, along with students’ creative projects, and Anita Fábos will address the learning and teaching possibilities of this kind of collaboration for university programmes.

Throughout the week - 11th to the 17th of December- the creative projects produced by Anthropology of Refugees and Cultures of Exile students will be on display in the Library Foyer and the Refugee Archive, (from the 15^th).

And on December 15th, Anita Fábos will give the lecture “Refugees as Actors” and, together with John Nassari, host a roundtable discussion on approaches to refugee-centred representation in the Main Lecture Theatre at Business School.

For more information see: http://www.uel.ac.uk/rca/news.htm#influx

Contact: influx.uel@gmail.com

In Flux Exhibition Flyer

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UEL Refugee Research Centre Seminar

Resiliance and social capital in asylum seeking families in Sweden

Professor Ulla Björnberg,

Department of Sociology, University of Gotehnburg, Sweden

October 8 2008, 6.00 – 7.30pm, Room EB.G08, East Building, UEL Docklands Campus

Abstract Research has suggested that social networks are important resources for children as well as for adults to resist health problems. For asylum seeking children social networking might be hard to accomplish due to constraints linked to social and legal contexts in the host country. Constraints can also be linked to the family situation and the circumstances they have to cope with in every day life. The situation of parents, in particular mothers, are important for the coping of children. In the paper I draw on results from an ongoing study on the experiences of asylum seeking children and their families in Sweden. The over arching research objective is to identify factors that are important for well being of children seeking asylum and to study how they cope with their experiences as asylum seekers. The tension between excluding experiences and expectations regarding how the situation of the child and it’s family should improve or deteriorate after the flight is for a child a constitutive reference for how coping strategies are developed. In the analysis I draw on theoretical concepts of resilience, empowerment and social capital. The main focus is on families who have waited for decisions regarding permanent residence for several months and sometimes more than a year. The empirical data are based on qualitative interviews with children from 9 years and with one parent for each child. Bio Dr. Ulla Björnberg is full professor of Sociology at the university of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is currently directing a research program on the health and wellbeing of asylum-seeking children and their families in Sweden. She has been engaged in several international projects on family policy and family life in Europe. She lectures on a variety of topics involving gender relations and gender structures, the welfare state and family policy. Dr. Björnberg has a long record of research on families, gender equality, lone mothers,  reconciliation of employment and family life. Recently she has finalised a research programme on Family ties between generations. Public and private transfers between generations in different family forms. Ulla.Bjornberg@sociology.gu.se

ALL WELCOME!

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