Seminars: UEL Centre for Human Rights in Conflict Seminar Series

The CHRC is hosting a series of seminars every term. The programme for the Spring 2013 Seminars is out now. Seminars are free to attend and open to all.

Link:  UEL Centre for Human Rights in Conflict

Wednesday 27 February 2013, 16.00-17.45h

Transforming Pain into Hope: Human Rights Defenders in the Americas

Human rights defenders in the Americas have made fundamental contributions to the advancement of human rights. However, they are systematically harassed, attacked, stigmatized and subjected to unfounded criminal charges in almost every country in the Americas to prevent them from speaking out for the rights of the most marginalized. Those particularly targeted include people working on issues related to land and natural resources; the rights of women, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people, abuses against migrants as well as those working to ensure justice for human rights abuses, plus journalists, bloggers and trade unionists. The speakers will present Amnesty International’s campaign and Amnesty International’s Report Transforming pain into hope: Human rights defenders in the Americas, which are based on the analysis of around 300 cases of attacks against human rights defenders in more than a dozen countries in the Americas, primarily between January 2010 and September 2012. (Report and current public campaigning actions are available at: http://amnesty.org/en/campaigns/human-rights-defenders-americas)

All welcome, admission FREE, refreshments provided

Room DH 110, Duncan House, High Street, Stratford, London E15 2JB

Public Transport: Stratford Station

Speakers:

Nancy Tapias Torrado, Researcher on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders in the Americas, Amnesty International

Leonor Rebassa, Campaigner for the Human Rights Defenders in the Americas, Amnesty International

Wednesday 6 March 2013, 16.00-17.45h

The United States and the policy of targeted killings

The policy of targeted killings may be ‘the only game in town’, as then CIA Director Leon Panetta famously said in 2009, but there are significant legal hurdles in the implementation of the policy. The speaker will discuss the legal framework of municipal U.S. law, as well as the consistency of targeted killings with international law, including, in particular, the law of force, the law of armed conflict, and human rights law. The discussion will be based on the relevant case-law, and legal policy documents, including the recent legal opinion of the U.S. Department of Justice.

All welcome, admission FREE, refreshments provided

Room DH 110, Duncan House, High Street, Stratford, London E15 2JB

Public Transport: Stratford Station

Speaker: Achilles Skordas, Professor of International Law, School of Law, University of Bristol

 

Wednesday 17 April 2013, 16.00-17.45h

Topic: tbc
Room DH 110, Duncan House, High Street, Stratford, London E15 2JB

Public Transport: Stratford Station

Speaker: Dr.Illan Rua Wall, School of Law, University of Warwick

 

Wednesday 1 May 2013, 16.00-17.45h

The Binding Force of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Room DH 110, Duncan House, High Street, Stratford, London E15 2JB

Public Transport: Stratford Station

Speaker: William Schabas, Professor of International Law, School of Law, Middlesex University

Event: Child Migration in Museums Seminar

Forgetting or Remembering – Child Migration in Museums

A Child in the World seminar for people working in museums, heritage, academia, education, community work and/or with an interest in child migrants

Link:-  Forgetting or Remembering – Child Migration in Museums; and Download Further Information.

How do we represent the experience of child migrants in museums and heritage? What is included or excluded, remembered or forgotten? Whose identity and voice are represented and how do we engage adults and children from all backgrounds in thinking about migration?

This seminar draws on the experiences of Kindertransport refugee children in the 1930s; child migration schemes from the UK to Australia and Canada between the 1860s and 1960s including from Dr Barnardo’s homes in Barkingside and Stepney; and more recent migration of Eastern European children to Glasgow.

Tony Kushner explores how a country such as Britain, which prides itself on its innate tolerance and decency, remembers past intolerance. Moments of perceived generosity such as Kindertransport are often celebrated at the expense of migrants who were excluded or deported. This talk will explore the ethical dimensions to remembering and forgetting and the significance this has for museums.

Rachel Mulhearn shows how child migration schemes had profound consequences for those involved, raising questions of belonging, identity and personal agency. She explores the interpretation approaches used in the exhibition, On their Own: Britain’s child migrants (Australian National Maritime Museum 2010), including how the identity and voice of the migrant child is represented.

Place: V&A Museum of Childhood, Bethnal Green

Date: Monday 17.30 – 19.00, 18 March 2013

Admission is free

To book a place  please email: mocbookings@vam.ac.uk or ring 020 8983 5205. For further details contact Eithne Nightingale: e.nightingale@vam.ac.uk

 

Call for papers: NORDIC ASYLUM LAW SEMINAR 2013

Reminder! Abstract deadline on Monday, January 28

NORDIC ASYLUM LAW SEMINAR 2013

Since the 1970s, the Nordic Asylum Law Seminar has provided a forum for exchange and dialogue on issues related to domestic, European and international refugee and migration law between academics, governments, judicial institutions, advocates and civil society in the Nordic context. This year´s seminar takes place from June 6-7 at the Faculty of Law, University of Bergen (Norway).

The seminar program and the registration form are online at https://www.uib.no/jur/seminar/2013/01/nordic-asylum-law-seminar-2013.

Attendance of the seminar is free of charge, but travel and accommodation costs must be paid by participants. The deadline for registration is on April 15, 2013.

The seminar will consist of plenary sessions as well as workshops. For participants interested in presenting original research, we welcome abstracts of not more than 300 words on the following themes:

•           The EU and Nordic asylum law and policy

•           Exclusion from refugee status/complementary protection

•           Asylum applicants with special needs

•           Generalized violence and the need for international protection

•           Protection of environmental refugees

We especially encourage early career researchers to submit new material for the workshops. Abstracts should be sent to Jessica Schultz at jessica.schultz@jur.uib.no by Monday, January 28, 2013. A final decision on the abstracts will be communicated by February 13, 2013.

 

Forthcoming Events

Details of these new events 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/

The Limits of Refugee Law: Human Trafficking and Challenges to the International Protection Regime, London, 21 February 2013 [info] [book a place]
- Presentation by Ryszard Piotrowicz, who recently authored an article in the International Journal of Refugee Law entitled “States’ Obligations under Human Rights Law towards Victims of Trafficking in Human Beings: Positive Developments in Positive Obligations.”

Economic Migrants and Displaced People in Azerbaijan, Washington, DC, 22 January 2013 [info]

“Humanity and Legality: Rights of Refugees and Legal Mobilisation,” International Refugee Law Seminar Series, London, 22 January 2013 [info]
- The Refugee Law Initiative series continues, with three subsequent presentations scheduled.

“Psychology and Asylum-Seeking Children,” Refugee Protection and Psychology Seminar Series, London, 29 January 2013 [info]
- The Refugee Law Initiative series continues, with one subsequent presentation scheduled.

“Deterrence through Detention: The Implications for Asylum in Canada and the UK,” The Challenge of Change: Confronting Asylum Law and Practice in the United Kingdom and Canada Seminar Series, London, 31 January 2013 [info]
- This joint RLI/CRS series continues, with one subsequent presentation scheduled.

Seminar on the Right to Citizenship: Towards Fuller Implementation of Art. 15 UDHR, Maastricht, 7 March 2013 [info]
- Programme now available.

RSC Public Seminar Series Hilary Term 2013

The Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford has published details of their Public Seminar Series for the Hilary Term 2013.  Further information on these can be found below:

Seminars will take place at 5pm on Wednesdays in Seminar Room One, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB.

Seminars are subject to change at the last minute; please check the website. If you require special access, please contact us in advance. Email:rsc@qeh.ox.ac.uk

The first seminar took place on the 16 Hanuary on the issue if Protection and was presented by Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill (University of Oxford).  Upcoming seminars include:

Date	Details
23 January, 2013	Protection and the ICRC Pierre Gentile Seminar Room One, QEH, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB
30 January, 2013	Flocks without shepherds? Governmentality, sovereignty and the paradoxical politics of IDP protection policy Dr Simon Addison Seminar Room One, QEH, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB
06 February, 2013	The Rohingya: a population facing violence, displacement, segregation, and statelessness Melanie Teff Seminar Room One, QEH, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB
13 February, 2013	A numbers game: counting refugees and international burden-sharing  Dr Alice Edwards Seminar Room One, QEH, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB
20 February, 2013	Statelessness and citizenship: camps and the creation of ‘political space’ Dr Victoria Redclift Seminar Room One, QEH, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB
27 February, 2013	Access to protection and the limitations on extraterritorial border control: the case of refugees at sea Dr Roland Bank Seminar Room One, QEH, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB
06 March, 2013	‘Here, man is nothing!’: Gendered tensions and male failed asylum seekers  Melanie Griffiths Seminar Room One, QEH, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB

Download schedule of the Hilary term 2013 Public Seminar Series (PDF 68KB)

Event: Life in Burma and Life as a Refugee

Life in Burma and Life as a Refugee

Mr Ian Werrett (Formerly of the Chow Kit Foundation (Assistant Centre Manager / Outreach Worker) and UNICEF (Researcher). Currently writing for ‘LLB Online’ and ‘Interact UK’)

Date: 21 November 2012Time: 3:15 PM
Finishes: 21 November 2012Time: 5:00 PM
Venue: Russell Square: College BuildingsRoom: 403
Type of Event: Seminar
Series: CSEAS Seminar Programme

CSEAS Special Student Event

Abstract

This seminar will tell the story of those who lived in and fled Burma. Ian will recount personal stories shared with him by those who had been subject to sever oppression by both the military regime in Burma and human traffickers. Personal cases and pictures will be shared to offer an insight into the life of a refugee.

Feel free to raise any topics for discussion:

• What do those who have fled Burma really think of Aung San Suu Kyi?
• What is life like for someone who is living illegally in Malaysia?
• How do refugees cross the borders?
• How do children view genocide?
• Is the UN doing enough?

Speaker Biography

Ian began working with Burmese refugees in 2009, conducting outreach to four different refugee communities.  Ian was detailing their needs and providing educational materials, health care and legal assistance. After one year of gathering information Ian was hired by the United Nations to submit research on the plight of refugee children living in Kuala Lumpur. Ian has provided information to Burma Campaign UK and the Malaysian Government.

In 2012, after 3 years in Kuala Lumpur he has returned to the UK to raise awareness about the situation for children living in Burma and those living as refugees in Malaysia.

Organiser: Centres & Programmes Office
Contact email: centres@soas.ac.uk

 

Event: 2013 Nordic Asylum Seminar

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Source: Forced Migration Discussion List.

The University of Bergen, Faculty of Law, has the pleasure of inviting you to the 2013 Nordic Asylum Seminar, 6-7 June 2013, in Bergen (Norway).

The 2013 Nordic Asylum Seminar will include speakers and participants from all the Nordic countries and other countries as well; representatives of the migration administrations, researchers, NGOs, politicians and other stakeholders. The seminar is co-sponsored by the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI) and the Ministry of Justice and Public Security.

The Seminar consists of plenary sessions as well as workshops, where researchers have an opportunity to present their work. We especially encourage early career researchers to submit new material for discussion during the workshops. We kindly invite you to submit abstracts of not more than 300 words on the following themes:

- The EU and Nordic asylum law and policy

- Exclusion from refugee status/complementary protection

- Asylum applicants with special needs

- Generalized violence and the need for international protection

- Protection of environmental refugees

- Possibly other themes if suggested by participants and accepted by the organisers

Abstracts should be sent to Jessica Schultz at jessica.schultz@jur.uib.no by Monday, **January 28, 2013.**

Other relevant dates for the seminar include:

- 13 February 2013: Decisions regarding acceptance and allocation of workshop papers will be communicated

- 15 April 2013: Registration deadline for seminar participation

- 20 May 2013: Submission of workshop papers

The preliminary programme may be found at http://www.uib.no/jur/seminar/2012/11/nordic-asylum-seminar-2013 .

 

Event: Immigration Detention Seminar Series

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Source: Forced Migration Discussion List.

Dear all

I’m pleased to announce a new seminar series exploring everyday practice and resistance in immigration detention. The first seminar, on the theme of ‘Supporting Immigration Detainees’ is scheduled to take place in London, at Resource for London, on the 1st February 2013, 9-4pm, and the speakers include:

- Dr. Lauren Martin (Oulu University, Finland), expert on US detention system,

- Dr. Adeline Trude, Research and Policy Director, Bail for Immigration Detainees,

- Ali McGinley, Director, Association of Visitors to Immigration Detainees,

- John Speyer, Director, Music in Detention,

- Dr. JoAnn McGregor (University College London), expert on British immigration removal centres,

- Prof. Heaven Crawley (Swansea University, Centre for Migration and Policy Research), expert on child and family detention.

- Gill Baden, Campaign to Close Campsfield and the Bail Observation Project.

Our capacity for the event is limited, so places will need to be booked (before Friday **18th January** please). We’re reserving a proportion of the places for practitioners, asylum seekers and former detainees. In the case of the latter two, there are some funds to help with attendance. Please contact me ( n.m.gill@exeter.ac.uk ) to reserve a place or to find out more about these funds.

The seminar series will also involve events in York (‘The Politics of Detention’, lead organiser Alexandra Hall), Birmingham (‘The Relation Between Prison and Detention’, lead organiser Dominique Moran), Oxford (‘The Everyday Experience of Immigration Detention’ lead organiser Mary Bosworth) and Lancaster (‘Activism in and Around Detention’ lead organiser Imogen Tyler). There’s more information available at the seminar series website, including information about the objectives of the series: http://immigrationdetentionseminarseries.wordpress.com/ . The series is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.

Best wishes

Nick

Dr. Nick Gill
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
University of Exeter
n.m.gill@exeter.ac.uk

 

Event: Refugee Protection and Psychology Seminar Series

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Source: Forced Migration Discussion List.

Dear colleagues,

I am writing to remind you about an exciting new seminar series on Refugee Protection and Psychology – convened by the Refugee Law Initiative and the Centre for Study of Emotion & Law – that begins this week.

We kick off the series with the following seminar:

6 November 2012, 6.00 pm

Room 349, Senate House, University of London, WC1E 7HU Decision-makers and Psychological Evidence

Presenters: Professor Anthony Good and Dr Jane Herlihy

Discussant: Vice President Mark Ockelton, Upper Tribunal, Immigration and Asylum Chamber

Chair: Dr David James Cantor

This seminar is free and open to the public. For further details or to register your attendance, please visit the new RLI website: http://rli.sas.ac.uk/forthcoming-events/

[ Additional details for this seminar series are available at http://rli.sas.ac.uk/events-courses-and-training/psychology-and-refugee-protection-seminar-series/ ]

Please forward this email to any others who may have an interest in attending.

Kind regards,

David

Dr David James Cantor
Director of the Refugee Law Initiative
david.cantor@sas.ac.uk

 

Seminar: Rescuing Migrants in Libya: The Political Economy of State Responses to Migration Crisis – The Case of Ghana

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The Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) has the pleasure of inviting you to a seminar on:

Rescuing Migrants in Libya: The Political Economy of State Responses to Migration Crisis
– The Case of Ghana
Tuesday, 30 October 2012, 14.00-15.45

Danish Institute for International Studies
Nordskov Meeting Room,
Wilders Plads 8H, 3rd floor, 1401 Copenhagen K

Background

When war broke out in Libya in 2011, an estimated 1.5 million labour migrants in the country were affected. Sub-Saharan migrants – widely accused of being Gaddafi’s mercenaries – found themselves in particularly difficult circumstances. The upheavals in Mali, following the return of Touareg armed groups, are well-known. But what is the situation in other African states?

This seminar examines the involuntary return of Ghanaians labour migrants from Libya. Following migrant appeals for help and mounting public pressure, Ghana engaged in rescue missions, bringing her nationals ‘back home’ from the war. By July 2012, more than 18,500 Ghanaian migrants had been repatriated to Ghana and registered by the authorities. Other than that, state assistance has been very limited. The Ghanaian case raises questions concerning why and how the state respond to their migrant populations in times of crises. Which rationalities and technologies are state interventions based upon? And which historical and contemporary mobility regimes and political economy do they reflect?

Speaker

George M. Bob-Milliar is based at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, and is currently a visiting researcher in the Migration unit at DIIS. His work focuses on democratization in Africa, African Diaspora, chieftaincy, and Ghanaian migration patterns. Bob-Milliar has received several prizes for his work, which has been published in African Affairs, Africa, Urban Anthropology, and the Journal of Modern African Studies, amongst others journals.

Programme

14.00-14.15       Arrival and Coffee

14.15-14.25       Introduction
                        Nauja Kleist, Senior Researcher, DIIS

14.25-14.55       Rescuing Migrants in Libya: The Political Economy of
State Responses to Migration Crisis – The Case of Ghana
                        George Bob-Milliar, Visiting Researcher, DIIS

14.55-15.05       Discussant
                        Finn Stepputat, Senior Researcher, DIIS

15.05-15.45       Open Discussion

Chair: Nauja Kleist, Senior Researcher, DIIS

Practical Information

The seminar will be held in English.

Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. Please use below online registration form no later than Monday, 29 October 2012 at 12.00 noon.

Registration

Yes please, I would like to register for the DIIS event mentioned above:
Full Name, Organisation, and E-mail must be filled out. If a field is not filled out, the form cannot be sent

Please await confirmation by e-mail from DIIS for participation. If you have not received a confirmation from us within 2 workdays, please contact us directly, email: event@diis.dk or telephone +45 32 69 87 51.

Link:-  [Further Information].

 

Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford: Public Seminar Series

The Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford has recently published details of their Public Seminar Series for the Michaelmas Term 2012.  The published theme for this series will be “Forced Migration and Citizenship.”    Further details of the individual seminars in this series are detailed as follows:

17 October, 2012
What is wrong with permanent alienage?
Dr Kieran Oberman
Seminar Room One, QEH, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB

24 October, 2012
The citizenship market: trading identities in East Africa and the Great Lakes
Dr Katy Long
Seminar Room One, QEH, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB

31 October, 2012
Ireland: forced migration history, forced migration empathy?
Dr Irial Glynn
Seminar Room One, QEH, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB

07 November, 2012
The architecture of refugee protection
Professor Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PW

14 November, 2012
Deportation, non-deportability and (permanently) precarious lives: the contemporary status-less child in Britain
Dr Nando Sigona
Seminar Room One, QEH, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB

21 November, 2012
The migrant and the (good) citizen: exclusion, failure, tolerance
Dr Bridget Anderson
Seminar Room One, QEH, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB

28 November, 2012
Civic stratification and civil repair: the case of welfare and asylum
Professor Lydia Morris
Seminar Room One, QEH, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB

Further details can be found on the Refugee Studies Centre website.  Listen to podcasts of the Public Seminar Series

Re-blog: Seminar Series

Re-blogged from  the Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog produced by Elisa Mason.

Seminar Series.

Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies, London, 10 October – 12 December 2012 [info]
- The first seminar will focus on “The Figure of the Trafficked Victim: gender, rights and representation.”

Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, Oxford, 11 October – 29 November 2012 [info]
- The theme of this series is “Migration Journeys.”  The first lecture will focus on “Researching migrant journeys: conceptual and methodological challenges.”

CERIS Ontario Metropolis Centre & Centre for Refugee Studies, Toronto, 19 September – 28 November 2012 [info]
- The first seminar in October will focus on ““The Commonwealth Response in Times of Crisis.”

Refugee Law Initiative, London
- Two series are scheduled, one on “International Refugee Law” (Oct. 2012-May 2013) and the other on “Refugee Protection and Psychology“ (Nov. 2012-Feb. 2013).  Seminars are free and open to the public, but booking is required.

Refugee Law Initiative & Centre for Refugee Studies, October 2012 – March 2013 [info]
- The theme of this series is “The Challenge of Change: Confronting Asylum Law and Practice in the UK and Canada.”  Seminars will be conducted via video link.  While the complete programme is not yet available, the first two will focus on “Whither Refugee Protection in the Reform of Canadian and British Asylum Systems?” (17 Oct.) and “Fast Track Asylum Processes: UK and Canadian Perspectives” (14 Nov.), respectively.

Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA [info]
- Seminar series on “Exploring the History of Humanitarianism and Development”; currently, details on two are available: “Human Rights and Human Suffering: Armenian Genocide Refugees and the Practices of Interwar Humanitarianism” (27 Sept.) and “The Hungry World: America’s Cold War Battle against Hunger in Asia” (25 Oct.).  I will post more info. when the schedule is finalized.

Event: Opportunities and obstacles: intra-EU skilled migration to the UK – Seminar

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Opportunities and Obstacles: Intra-EU Skilled Migration to the UK

Date: 14th September 2012

Venue: Broadway House, Tothill Street, London, SW1H 9NQ

Price: Full delegate rate – £50, Concessionary Rate – £25 (Unemployed, Retired, Students)

The decisive moment in Intra-EU mobility rights came in November 1993 with the Maastricht Treaty, establishing the formal legal conditions for unhindered mobility of EU citizens. Within the context of EU mobility rights, it has been suggested that national borders are ‘treated as if they have little or no significance for EU citizens other than as markers delineating locations on a map where languages tend to change’ (Kennedy, 2008: 120).  However, it has also been argued that there has been ‘less migrational movement than expected by the architects of the European Union’ (Verwiebe, et al, 2010: 276).  Nonetheless, London has become a prime destination of European free movement (Favell, 2003). Amongst intra-EU migration to the UK and London, much attention has been focussed on the arrival of the lower-skilled, and in particular Easter European economic migrants. In contrast, the mobilities of the skilled, and especially the highly skilled, have been far less visible.

Focusing on Intra-EU mobility, this seminar explores the patterns, rights, and opportunities of skilled migrants to the UK. In addition, drawing on both quantitative and qualitative data, the seminar also explores the barriers or obstacles which may continue to impact on the mobility of skilled migrants and their families.

Schedule:

9.30-9.50           Registration and Refreshments

9.50-10.00  Welcome – Professor Joshua Castellino – Dean of School of Law, Middlesex University

10.00-10.30 Demographics of intra-EU migration to the UK (Eamon Davern – International Public Employment Services and Strategy,Department of Work and Pensions)

10.30-11.00 Patterns of Intra-EU skilled migration to the UK in the context of the economic downturn (Dr. Madeleine Sumption – Migration Policy Institute, Washington DC)

11.00-11.30 Family migration and Intra-EU mobility (Prof Eleonore Kofman – Middlesex University)

11.30-12.00 COFFEE BREAK

12.00-12.30       `Rights, entitlements and the law in relation to EU migrants (Prof Louise Ackers, Liverpool University)

12.30-1.00  “Somehow something will work out” – Occupational pensions and highly skilled mobility in the EU (Dr. Liz Oliver – University of Leeds)

1.00-1.30           Panel Discussion

1.30-2.30           LUNCH

2.30-3.00   Highly Skilled Migrants – the case of the French in London (Dr. Jon Mulholland and Prof Louise Ryan. Middlesex University)

3.00-3.30   Intra-EU mobility – the case of Health Workers (Dr. Ruth Young – Kings College)

3.30-4.00   Discussion – Wrap Up/The Way Forward

4.00         TEA

Book a place: – To book a place, please download and complete a registration form from http://www.mdx.ac.uk/research/areas/social_policy/ and send by 20.08.12 to: Jim McClemont, Research & Knowledge Transfer Office, Middlesex University, The Burroughs, Hendon, London,  NW4 4BT, Tel:  +44 (0)20 8411 4942, Fax:  +44 (0)20 8411 4777, Email:  j.mcclemont@mdx.ac.uk

Further information: More information can be obtained from the seminar organisers: Dr. Jon Mulholland (j.mulholland@mdx.ac.uk) Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Prof Louise Ryan (l.ryan@mdx.ac.uk), Reader in Gender and Migration, Co-Director of the Social Policy Research Centre, Programme Leader of the MSC in Social Science Research Methods, Middlesex University, London, NW4 4BT

Events: Refugee Law Seminars, 10 May 2012

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1.  Oxford Migration Law Discussion Group:

Today’s group meeting will start at 5 pm (instead of 6h30) and will take place not in the Senior Common Room, but in Seminar Room F at the Law Faculty (University of Oxford, St Cross Building, St Cross Road, Oxford OX1 3UL).

Kate Ogg (Oxford RSC) will present her paper: “Separating the persecutors from the persecuted: a feminist and comparative examination of exclusion from the refugee regime”.

For further details on the Migration Law Discussion Group see: http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/discussion_group/MLDG

Looking forward to meeting you!

Violeta Moreno Lax

violeta.morenolax@qeh.ox.ac.uk

2. Refugee Law Initiative Seminar Series:

A reminder that the Refugee Law Initiative seminar series on International Refugee Law will continue on this Thursday 10 May.

We are very pleased to welcome Professor Patricia Tuitt (Birkbeck) who will be speaking on:

“Refugees, Law and Postcolonial Theory”

Please note the updated title of the event. The event will take place at 17.30 in the Chancellors Hall, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.

Please do not hesitate to forward this email to others in the field who may have an interest in attending. For further details please see www.sas.ac.uk/rli.

All welcome!

Seminar: RSC Public Seminar Series Hilary Term 2012

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RSC Public Seminar Series Hilary Term 2012

 Dr Francois Gemmene will present Migration as an Environmental Policy: pitfalls, opportunities, and rhetorics

Wednesday February 1 at 5.00 p.m. seminar room one

 François Gemenne is a research fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), and he teaches the international politics of climate change and the governance of migration at Sciences Po Paris, the University of Paris 13 and the Free University of Brussels.

RSC Public Seminar Series Hilary Term 2012

His research deals with populations displaced by environmental changes and the policies of adaptation to climate change. He has conducted field studies in New Orleans (United States) after hurricane Katrina, and in the archipelago of Tuvalu, threatened by sea-level rise, as well as in China, Central Asia and Mauritius.

Between 2007 and 2009, he supervised the research clusters on Asia-Pacific and Central Asia of the European research project EACH-FOR (Environmental Changes and Forced Migration Scenarios). The project aimed to describe the empirical linkages between migration and environmental changes, in a comparative perspective. He has also been the scientific advisor of the exhibition “Native Land. Stop Eject”, held at the Fondation Cartier for contemporary art in Paris in Winter 2008. He has consulted for the International Organisation of Migration (IOM) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

He holds a joint doctorate in political science from Sciences Po Paris and the University of Liege (Belgium). He also holds a Master in Development, Environment and Societies from the University of Louvain, and a Master of Research in Political Science from the London School of Economics (LSE), where he also taught some courses. He has authored three books: Anticiper pour s’adapter (with L. Tubiana and A. Magnan, in French, Pearson 2010), Géopolitique du changement climatique (in French, Armand Colin 2009), and Nations and their Histories: Constructions and Representations (edited with S. Carvalho, Palgrave Macmillan 2009).

A reception will be held after the lecture. All welcome.

For further info email: rsc-outreach@qeh.ox.ac.uk

http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/public-seminars