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

CMRB Events: Imaging Migrants Seminar Series 2012

CMRB

The following seminars have been planned as part of the UEL Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB) Semester B seminar series 2012:

Imaging Migrants Seminar Series 2012

25th January 2012

Documentary: Calais: The Last Border and discussion

Marc Issacs (film-maker)

13th Februaury 2012 (Monday 5pm-7pm)

The Cleaners’ Voice

Luis C.Sotelo (film-maker)

Anna Lopes  (University of East London)

29th February 2012

Gevald and the role of truth in documentary

Yohai Hakak (University of Portsmouth)

28th April 2012

Evidence of the transformative moment of decision to migrate, explored through image as archive and memory as testimony.

March Helene Kazan (Goldsmith’s College)

25th April 2012

A Visual Journey through the Balkans: from Socialism to the UK.

Nela Milic (journalist and film-maker)

2nd May 2012

Imagined diasporas: domestic violence migrants within the UK

Janet Bowstead  (London Metropolitan University)

For more details on these seminars, click here.

CMRB Events: Imaging Migrants Seminar Series

Imaging Migrants Seminar Series

All Welcome!

Please contact Dr Marta Rabikowska: m.rabikowska@uel.ac.uk

Centre for Research on  Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB)

University of East London, Docklands Campus,
Room EB1.37 (Matrix East Research Lab),

Wednesdays 3-5 (exp: 13th February Monday 5pm-7pm)
25th January 2012
Documentary: Calais: The Last Border and discussion
Marc Issacs (Film-maker)

13th Februaury 2012 (Monday 5pm-7pm)
The Cleaners’ Voice
Luis C.Sotelo (Film-maker)
Anna Lopes  (University of East London)

29th February 2012
Gevald and the role of truth in documentary
Yohai Hakak (University of Portsmouth)

28th April 2012
Evidence of the transformative moment of decision to migrate, explored through image as archive and memory as testimony
March Helene Kazan (Goldsmiths College)

25th April 2012

A Visual Journey through the Balkans: from Socialism to the UK
Nela Milic (Journalist and Film-maker)

2nd May 2012
Imagined diasporas: domestic violence migrants within the UK
Janet Bowstead  (London Metropolitan University)

For more information, please see the attached document. Feel free to circulate. All inquiries please contact Dr Marta Rabikowska: m.rabikowska@uel.ac.uk

For more details on these seminars, click here.

Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB) at UEL – http://www.uel.ac.uk/cmrb/seminars.htm

Event: Hilary Term 2012 RSC Public Seminar Series: Critical Approaches to Environmental Displacement

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The Refugee Studies Centre atOxford will devote the Hilary Term 2012 Public Seminar Series to Critical Approaches to Environmental Displacement. The seminar series is convened by Dr Alexander Betts,

University Lecturer in Refugee Studies and Forced Migration, Refugee Studies Centre.

The Public Seminar Series will take place each Wednesday, from 5 p.m in Seminar Room 1 at QEH, Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB.

Seminars may be subject to change at the last minute; please visit www.rsc.ox.ac.uk

If you require special access please contact us in advance. Email: rsc-outreach@qeh.ox.ac.uk

Refugee Council 60th Anniversary Seminar Series in partnership with the The Refugee Law Initiative, University of London

News from the Refugee Council:

Dear Colleagues,

Refugee Council

The Refugee Council is delighted to announce a series of six seminars presented in partnership with The Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) at the Human Rights Consortium of the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

This seminar series ‘New Challenges in Refugee Integration’ continues our 60th Anniversary celebrations by bringing together leading academics in the field of refugee integration.

The first seminar, presented by Professor Loren B Landau from the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) will examine Authority and inclusion: reconsidering the meaning of integration in a fragmented age.  The seminar will be chaired by Refugee Council Chief Executive Donna Covey.

Date: 26th October, 2011
Time: 5.30pm
Venue: Chancellors Hall, Senate House, London 

Admission free – All welcome. Please email to reserve your place. RLI@sas.ac.uk

The remaining seminars are as follows:

30 November 2011, 5.30pm | Refugee-centred versus State-centred approaches to integration: processes, practices and narratives.  Dr Maja Korac-Sanderson, University of East London.  Chair: Dhananjayan Sriskandarjah, Director, Royal Commonwealth Society

14 December 2011, 5.30pm | Employment: integration, exclusion and human rights. Professor Alice Bloch, City University London. Chair: Sir John Ashworth, President, Council for assisting refugee academics (CARA)

26 January 2012, 5.30pm | Changing identities, declining protection: the securitisation of asylum and refugee policy in Europe. Professor Roger Zetter, University of Oxford. Chair: Medhi Hasan, Senior Editor (Politics), the New Statesman

23 February 2012, 5.30pm |Integration: global perspectives on the transition from being apart to being a part (of something). Professor Alastair Kenneth Ager, Columbia University (USA). Chair: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Journalist and Author

15 March 2012, 5.00pm | Open debate with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees. Chair: Julian Huppert, Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Cambridge

For more details on the series go to http://www.sas.ac.uk/rli.html or email RLI@sas.ac.uk to reserve your place

RSC Public Seminar Series: Stateless diasporas and forced migration

RSC Public Seminar Series: Stateless diasporas and forced migration

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness,  Refugee Studies Centre in association with the Leverhulme-funded Oxford Diasporas Programme will devote the next RSC Public Seminar Series to explore contemporary statelessness in international and national arenas.

Drawing on a range of disciplinary and institutional perspectives, invited speakers will contribute to the  reconceptualisation of statelessness and assess the effectiveness of current international tools to address the plight of stateless diasporas world-wide.

The seminars, except the Harrell Bond lecture on the 16th November,  will take place on Wednesdays at 4.30pm in Seminar Room Two at the Department of International Development (3 Mansfield Road, Oxford).

The first seminar of the series  on ‘Stateless diasporas and immigration and citizenship regimes’ by Dr Elena Fiddian Qasmiyeh and Dr Nando Sigona (Refugee Studies Centre) will be held on Wednesday 12 October at 4.30pm.

For the full programme please see the attached link – http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/wednesday-seminars. Refreshments will be provided after each seminar.  For further details please contact  rsc-outreach@qeh.ox.ac.uk

Seminar Events: Conceptual Problems in Forced Migration, Oxford and UEL

‘Conceptual Problems in Forced Migration’

CMRB is very pleased to announce the schedule for the ‘Conceptual Problems in Forced Migration’ series, jointly organised with the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), Oxford.

Seminars will take place at 5.00pm on Wednesdays, in either the UEL or RSC location.

The RSC location is: Seminar Room 1, Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Rd, Oxford, OX1 3LA.

The UEL location is: Room EBG.08, East Building, Docklands Campus, London E16 2RD. Docklands Campus is adjacent to Cyprus Station, Docklands Light Railway..

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The Refugee Studies Centre with the University of East London Wednesday

Seminar Series:

Conceptual Problems in Forced Migration

Seminars will take place at 5.00pm on Wednesdays, in either the UEL or

RSC location, as indicated.

The RSC location is Seminar Room 1, Department of International

Development (ODID), 3 Mansfield Rd, Oxford, OX1 3LA

The UEL location is Room EBG.08, East Building, UEL Docklands Campus,

London E16 2RD

 

19 Jan:

Refugees, exiles and other forced migrants in the late Ottoman Empire

Dawn Chatty (University of Oxford)

Location: RSC

 

26 Jan:

Citizenship, autochthony and the question of forced migration

Nira Yuval-Davis (University of East London)

Location: RSC

 

2 Feb:

Reconciling integration and return: Rethinking Palestinian Refugeehood

Ruba Salih (School of Oriental and African Studies)

Location: UEL

 

9 Feb:

‘Collective amnesia’ – refugees and the problem of History

Philip Marfleet (University of East London)

Location: RSC

 

16 Feb: Refugees and the definition of Syria

Benjamin White

Location: RSC

 

23 Feb:

Citizenship and residence: rights, mobility and refugees

Catherine Long (University of Oxford)

Location: UEL

 

2 Mar: Is deportation a form of forced migration?

Matthew Gibney (University of Oxford)

Location: RSC

 

9 Mar:

Refugees, the state and the concept of home

Helen Taylor (University of East London)

Location: RSC

 

16 Mar Refugees, states and the ‘security’ agenda

Khalid Koser (Geneva Centre for Security Policy)

Location: UEL

 

Seminars are subject to change, please visit www.rsc.ox.ac.uk or email

rsc@qeh.ox.ac.uk for updates.  Further details also available on the CMRB website at:  http://www.uel.ac.uk/cmrb/seminars.htm#imagingmigrants

Please send all replies to: rsc@qeh.ox.ac.uk

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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