CFP: ‘Experiencing Displacement in Hazardous Climates: Anthropological Perspectives’ at RAI Conference on Anthropology, Weather, and Climate Change, May 2016

CFP: ‘Experiencing Displacement in Hazardous Climates: Anthropological Perspectives’ at RAI Conference on Anthropology, Weather, and Climate Change, May 2016

Short Abstract

This panel engages the displacement of populations by environmental degradations, weather and climate change related disasters from an ethnographic perspective. It aims at carving out what sets these apart from other forms of mobility, and what implication this has for conceptualizing the intersections of climate change and mobility.

Long Abstract

As the world is warming, weather variations, environmental degradations or disasters are predicted to translate into population displacement across the globe. This constellation is widely invoked in media and scholarly writing as a future condition, legal problem and often enough along xenophobic imageries regarding climate change scenarios. Within recent academic debates, movement is discussed as either successful or failed, as an exceptional or routine form of adaptation to it.

Yet we still know very little about how these displacements today play out locally. To address this gap, this panel focuses on displacement in a rather narrow sense. We are interested in understanding dynamics by which populations are ousted or expected to be ousted by the vagaries of weather and environment. Therefore, we seek empirically grounded papers looking at the ways, weather and climate related displacements are anticipated, lived through and negotiated among exposed populations.

We are particularly interested in how such displacements are incorporated into already existing registers of mobility in everyday lifeworlds. We welcome papers engaging the different temporal dimensions of displacement including socially mediated anticipations or afterlives. We ask individual papers to focus on the ways, these temporal dimensions shape present negotiations among affected populations.

We invite papers focusing on all geographic regions. We ask authors to critically reflect on methodological problems arising when researching the intersections of climate change, weather, environment and displacement.

For our panel, we propose the roundtable format based on pre-circulated papers. Each paper will be commented on by a designated discussant and then further explored by all participants.

Convenors Arne Harms (Uni Leipzig, Germany)
Rebecca Hofmann (Uni Freiburg, Germany)

Please consider submitting an abstract via the panel page http://www.nomadit.co.uk/rai/events/rai2016/panels.php5?PanelID=3821

The deadline for proposals is January 8th 2016.

Further information on conference, venue and other panels can be found on the conference page https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-weather-and-climate-change-2016

Call for papers : The Social Reproductive Worlds of Migrants Joint RC06 Family Research (Host) and RC31 Sociology of Migration session

Call for papers : The Social Reproductive Worlds of Migrants
Joint RC06 Family Research (Host) and RC31 Sociology of Migration session

Session organizers :
Majella Kilkey (UoS), Laura Merla (UCL & UWA) & Loretta Baldassar (UWA)

While research highlights the role inward migration plays in meeting the social reproductive needs of migrant-receiving societies, less attention is paid to the social reproductive aspects of migrants’ lives. In the context of the increasing volume in international migration and its feminisation, and the increasingly instrumentalist and economistic approach to migration-entry regimes, it is critical that migration and family policies begin to acknowledge that a production system cannot operate without a reproduction system (Truong, 1996).

This joint (RC06 and RC31) paper presentation session, invites papers that contribute to developing a research agenda on the social reproductive worlds of migrants. Social reproduction incorporates family building through relationship formation and procreation, and the ongoing care required in the maintenance of people on a daily basis across the life-course. Thus, we seek contributions that examine how during processes of migration, families are formed, procreate and care.

Possible areas include:
1) spatial and temporal configurations of how migrants organise their social reproductive worlds, and how these relate to the patterning of opportunities and constraints rendered by public policies in both countries of origin and of destination;
2) the role of managed migration strategies in the development of patterns of ‘stratified social reproduction’ (Kraler, 2010) among migrants;
3) how, to what extent and under which conditions transnational family dynamics and solidarities provide kin members with a safety net and greater opportunities to access and claim rights to social protection;
4) the gendered nature of migrants’ social reproductive worlds, including male as well as female migrants.

Submission deadline : 30 September 2015. Abstracts of max 300 words should be submitted online through this link :http://www.isa-sociology.org/forum-2016/

Selected papers will be considered for publication in a Special issue of Social Sciences (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci)

Call for Papers: ECPR/SGEU ‘Understanding EU responses towards crises and conflicts’

ECPR/SGEU Conference in Trento, 16-18 June 2016 – Call for Papers

please find attached a call for papers for the next Pan-European Conference on the European Union (ECPR/SGEU) taking place in Trento, Italy in 2016 (http://ecpr.eu/Events/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=105) on ‘Understanding EU responses towards crises and conflicts’.  The panel aims to investigate how the EU responds to crisis events and conflict situations and to explore which factors shape these responses.

We are looking forward to receiving abstracts by 10th of October 2015.  Please send your proposals l.hadj-abdou@sheffield.ac.uk and benedetta.voltolini@sciencespo.fr Thanks also for distributing widely

ECPR/SGEU Conference in Trento, 16-18 June 2016 – Call for Papers

Title: Understanding EU responses towards crises and conflicts

The EU’s neighborhood is fraught with crises and conflicts, which range from the violent civil wars in Syria, Libya, and Ukraine, the rise of the Islamic State and the more entrenched situations of Israel-Palestine, Morocco-Western Sahara, Nagorno-Karabakh just to mention a few. Migration flows, including the recent refugee crisis, are also issues that the EU has to face on the international stage. And if we move beyond the neighborhood, conflicts in Africa, the instability in Afghanistan and Iraq and environmental disasters around the world force the EU to act.

While a lot has been said about the divergent interests of EU member states, the lack of instruments or of political willingness as well as solidarity, less is known about the ways in which the EU constructs its understanding of crises and conflicts, which actors participate in these processes of framing and knowledge construction and how these factors shape EU actions. Instead of moving backwards from outcomes towards assuming the motives and logics driving EU responses, it is thus important to investigate the processes that shape these responses.

Against this backdrop, the panel aims to investigate how the EU responds to crisis events and conflict situations and what factors shape these (policy) responses. In particular, some of the possible questions that can be addressed by contributors are:

• How does the EU make sense of and frames crises and conflicts?
• What actors contribute to the processes of framing and knowledge construction?
• What different types of knowledge emerge through these processes?
• Under what conditions does policy learning take place?
• Under what conditions does knowledge travel across cases?
• When do crises lead to policy change and when does continuity persist? And what factors explain this (lack of) change?

The panel(s) is strongly committed to theoretical, epistemological and methodological pluralism. Paper abstracts of maximum 300 words should be submitted to Leila Hadj Abdou  (l.hadj-abdou@sheffield.ac.uk) and Benedetta Voltolini (benedetta.voltolini@sciencespo.fr) by the 10^th October 2015. Please feel free to contact us if you require any further information.

Call for Papers: CARFMS, deadline extended to 1 November

Freedom of Movement: Exploring a Path from Armed Conflict, Persecution, and Forced Migration to Conflict Resolution, Human Rights, and Development
9th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS)
Hosted by
the Conflict Resolution Studies Department of Menno Simons College, a College of the Canadian Mennonite University located at the University of Winnipeg
in Winnipeg, Manitoba, CANADA
Home of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
12–14 May 2016

(Please note that the submission deadline has been extended to November 1, 2015)

Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state; and, (2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his or her own, and to return to his or her country. Unfortunately, people in situations of persecution, armed conflict, and displacement are prevented from exercising their right to freedom of movement. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates in the 2014 Global Trends Report that war, conflict, and persecution have displaced some 60 million people worldwide, resulting in the highest level since records have been kept. Of these people, 20 million are displaced across borders, with more than half of this refugee population comprised of children. Since its inception in 2011, the Syrian crisis has produced a total of 11 million internally displaced people and refugees. New waves of “boat people,” displaced by violence, are crossing the Mediterranean Sea, the Bay of Bengal, and entire oceans to seek asylum, safety, and freedom. Many perish on their dangerous journeys, and others who arrive at their destinations are refused entry or detained.

Much of the responsibility falls on the world’s developing countries, who host nine out of ten refugees. Neighbouring countries, governments, and humanitarian organizations struggle to deal with the social, economic, and political ramifications of these situations. The minority who are resettled face numerous integration issues.

The 2016 CARFMS Annual Conference will gather a diverse group of stakeholders such as academics, researchers, students, government officials, lawyers and lawmakers, community organizations, and practitioners (including from non-governmental organizations) to discuss the question: What strategies can host states, origin states, the international community, private citizens, and civil society undertake to fulfill their collective responsibility to address these escalating global forced migration crises? From interdisciplinary perspectives and diverse regional backgrounds, we invite participants to explore, examine, and recommend theories, policies, and practical responses to the theme of freedom of movement in the context of:

Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding;
Human Rights;
Development; and,
Methodology and Knowledge Production.

We welcome proposals for individual papers, organized panels and roundtables, film screenings, video documentaries and news media clippings, or poster/photo exhibits around these broad sub-themes.

1.        Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding

Conflict resolution, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding have the potential to engage people across grassroots to top-level leadership in working towards peaceful relationships and communities. This sub-theme explores and analyzes the interests, motivations, and practices of conflict resolution, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding in addressing social justice and positive peace for refugees and other migrants. How do we commit to conflict resolution, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding practices that address the right to seek asylum in situations of war, armed conflict and persecution? How do structural factors and other root causes (systemic or institutionalized discrimination, cultural imperialism, power-based systems) impact migration and resettlement? How do governments, NGOs, and other actors participate in the different roles, structures, and processes that support or impede freedom of movement? What role can refugees and diaspora communities play in conflict resolution activities that will contribute to post-conflict development, security, and transitional justice? Can freedom of movement and the right to asylum be strategies for conflict transformation?

2.        Human Rights

Freedom of movement and asylum are fundamental human rights. This sub-theme explores both the actualization and denial of these rights. How are various human rights instruments used to facilitate movement? Who are the actors (individuals, organizations, communities, and governments) who enable movement? What legal and regulatory frameworks can and have been implemented to respect the right to freedom of movement? What restrictions (legal, judicial, administrative or otherwise) serve to prohibit, complicate, or reduce movement and asylum? How does freedom of movement interact with other human rights? Where is the intersection between the human right of freedom of movement and the refugee’s right to non-refoulement?

3.        Development

Improving the livelihoods of people migrating due to war, armed conflict, and persecution is imperative. This sub-theme invites contributions that examine innovative strategies for improved livelihoods through economic, social, environmental, and political change in situations of war, armed conflict and persecution. Creating safe and sustainable environments, meeting human needs, and addressing social justice issues are keys to freedom of movement. In situations of short- and long-term displacement, what strategies ensure the timely provision of sufficient, nutritional, and culturally-appropriate food? In protracted displacements, what key strategies enhance skills and develop vocations and small businesses to provide opportunities for young people, increase family income, and build resilience? Considering that the vast majority of migrants are women and children, how do gender considerations inform development planning and implementation? What practices result in meaningful engagement in the decision-making processes that impact the lives of refugees and forced migrants while ensuring peaceful co-existence with host communities?

4.        Methodology and Knowledge Production

Research in the contexts of migration, war, armed conflict, extreme violence, and serious human rights violations, and development poses particular epistemological, methodological, and ethical questions. This sub-theme explores how knowledge is created, under what structural constraints, and for what purposes. How can non-academics, including forced migrants themselves, overcome structural and epistemological barriers to contributing to research and scholarship? What are the opportunities and challenges of interdisciplinary research in this area? To what extent do standard research methods need to be adapted to the particular political and practical contexts of war, armed conflict, development, and migration? Is there a need for greater cross-pollination of ideas across conflict studies, development studies, and migration studies? What are the particular ethical challenges of research with forced migrants, and how can these be addressed?

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS

Individuals wishing to present a paper, organized panels and roundtables, film and video documentaries and news media clippings/exhibits, or poster/photo exhibits must submit a 250-word abstract and 100-word biography.

Organized panel proposals or roundtables must include a general title, a 250-word abstract and a title of each paper, as well as 100-word biography of each presenter forming the panel or roundtable.

Please submit your abstract directly online: http://tinyurl.com/ox6oeo2 by November 1, 2015 (note the deadline extensino). Earlier submissions are welcome.

We invite filmmakers or producers to submit video documentaries as well as those who wish to present materials in support of their organizations and/or causes, that are directly related to refugees and other forced migrants, to request space on our conference display tables. Please submit a brief outline of your organization and what materials you wish to have included on your display table and whether you will have someone available to answer conference participants’ questions regarding your organization and/or your cause and/or campaign.

More information about the conference can be found on the CARFMS/ACERMF website: http://carfms.org/conferences/9th-annual-conference/. Please keep checking back for updates.

DEADLINE 7TH OCT: CfP “Solidarity in the European refugee and migration crisis” @ IPSA World Congress 2016

Please find below CfP ‘”Sharing the burden”, “enlightened self-interest”, or an “ethical obligation”? Notions of solidarity in the European refugee and migration crisis’ for contributions to an Open Panel in RC14 Politics and Ethnicity at the IPSA/AISP World Congress in Istanbul, July 23-28, 2016. The panel is organised in collaboration with the Centrifugal Europe UACES-CRN.

The panel invites papers that discuss the meaning of European solidarity in relation to policies of immigration/asylum,ethnic diversity and social cohesion in the EU.
Paper proposals must be submitted via the IPSA website and must conform with requirements specified here. This might require you to sign up for a free IPSA website account. Please note that IPSA does not permit you to participate in the conference as the main author of more than one paper (though you may co-author a second paper), see guidelines for details.
Deadline to submit paper proposals (abstracts of no more than 1650 characters, roughly 250 words) is October 7, 2015.
Relevant Research Committee is RC 14 Politics and Ethnicity.

Language of the panel is English.
Questions about the panel should be directed to me ada.regelmann@gmail.com. Questions about the congress should be directed to IPSA.

Call for papers: Educating Refugee-background Students – proposals due Oct 15th

DEADLINE APPROACHING- OCTOBER 15TH, 2015

Call for Chapter Proposals

Title of volume: Educating Refugee-Background Students: Critical Issues and Dynamic Contexts
Editors: Shawna Shapiro, Raichle Farrelly, and Mary Jane Curry
Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Proposal deadline: October 15th, 2015
More information at http://linguistlist.org/issues/26/26-3142.html

Overview: This collection will offer an in-depth exploration of key issues in the education of adolescents and adults with refugee backgrounds who have been resettled in the main refugee receiving areas of North America, Australia, and Europe. Until recently, educational researchers have devoted little attention to refugee-background students, despite the high numbers of refugees living in these areas. Although research on other immigrant groups sometimes references refugees and/or asylum-seekers, much of that literature fails to take into account the particular educational backgrounds, migration experiences, and identity preferences of this population (McBrien, 2005). Hence, this volume will address geographic and thematic gaps in existing educational research.

This volume focuses in particular on students’ goals, voices, and experiences, and each contributor will be asked to address the contextual factors (both macro and micro level) that inform their analysis.  Authors will also be asked to discuss implications of their work for educators and policy-makers.  Chapters will be clustered according to three themes: Adjustment, Literacy, and Equity.

For more information, please visit http://linguistlist.org/issues/26/26-3142.html  or contact sshapiro@middlebury.edu

Call for Papers: R2P and the Refugee Crisis, University of Leeds

Call for Papers:

The Responsibility to Protect and the Refugee Crisis: How Should Europe Respond?

What? One-day workshop

When? Monday, 18th January 2016

Where? School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds

How? This workshop is part of a project entitled ‘The Responsibility to Protect in the Context of the Continuing “War on Terror”: A Study of Liberal Interventionism and the Syrian Crisis’, funded by Research Councils UK as part of its ‘Rights and Ethics in a Security Context’ call (grant number ES/L013355/1). Funding is available for speakers’ travel, one night’s accommodation (for UK speakers) or two nights’ accommodation (for international speakers), as well as subsistence. Lunch and coffee will be provided for participants (including non-speakers). Dinner will be provided for speakers.

Abstract
The purpose of this workshop is to explore the relevance of the responsibility to protect (R2P) for the current refugee crisis emanating from the Middle East. The ongoing Syrian civil war is largely seen as an arena in which R2P has failed to date, with the international community and individual states having failed to coordinate effective action in response to atrocities committed by its various parties, including Islamic State, which has also seized territory within Iraq. With an end to hostilities appearing remote, the resulting refugee crisis – although borne disproportionately by neighbouring countries – is now also significantly impacting upon European states.

This workshop will ask whether, and in what ways, R2P needs to be creatively and pragmatically reiterated so it can effectively protect those at risk from atrocities in Syria and Iraq. R2P has generally been seen, at least as far as international action under ‘Pillar 3’ is concerned, as a general and diffuse responsibility that is borne by international society as a whole. It has also largely been regarded as a foreign policy issue, in isolation from states’ asylum policies. The problem with this is that often this responsibility is not met, as those capable of fulfilling their R2P do not see it as their particular responsibility, and the absence of intervention is taken as representing a failure of R2P, when in fact states have other means of fulfilling it at their disposal. The workshop will examine how the responsibility to protect may be distributed among states, and what roles asylum, refugee protection and refugee responsibility-sharing may play in meeting the demands of R2P. We invite papers which address these, and other, challenges facing R2P in the context of the current refugee crisis.

To submit a paper proposal, please email James Souter at J.Souter@leeds.ac.uk with a title and abstract of no more than 300 words by Friday, 23rd October. Those accepted will be notified shortly afterwards.

Who? To be organised by James Souter (Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Leeds), with assistance from R2P Student Coalition interns, Blake Lawrinson and Georgiana Epure

Confirmed speakers include Professor James Pattison (University of Manchester), Professor Richard Beardsworth (University of Aberystwyth), and Chloe Gilgan (University of York).

Suggested Panels:

Allocating Responsibilities
This panel will explore the question of how the responsibility to protect can and should be allocated to ensure its effective implementation. It will explore and perhaps draw lessons from practices of special responsibilities within other issue areas at the international level, such as humanitarian intervention and climate change.

R2P, Asylum and International Responsibility-Sharing
This panel will explore the actual and potential role of special responsibilities in the international allocation of responsibilities for refugees, and linkages that can be made between R2P, asylum and refugee protection.

Reiterating R2P
This panel will explore potential ways in which R2P can, and perhaps should, be reiterated and reframed in order to meet the challenges that currently stymie its effective implementation.

Proposed Output: Special Issue of Ethics and International Affairs

Call for papers: BSA Annual Conference 2016: Global Societies: Fragmenting and Connecting

Call for papers: BSA Annual Conference 2016: Global Societies: Fragmenting and Connecting

We would like to remind everyone about the BSA Race, Ethnicity and Migration Stream CfP deadline for the BSA Annual Conference 2016:  Global Societies: Fragmenting and Connecting.  The conference will take place at Aston University from 6-8 April 2016.

We would like to invite abstracts for papers/presentations.

Abstract deadline is 16 October 2015

The call is open, but would particularly welcome abstracts in the following areas related to race, ethnicity and/or migration:

• Theory
• Racialisation
• Research Methods
• Identities
• Racism, Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and Xenophobia
• Anti-racism
• Race and Class
• Migrations and Migrants
• Asylum and Refugees
• Diaspora
• Transnationalism
• Citizenship
• Gender and Sexualities
• Intersectionality
• Education
• Youth
• Popular Culture
• Sport
• Crime and Criminal Justice
• Far Right and Hate Groups
• Austerity
• Post-colonialism/Decoloniality
• Social Change

The stream will be made up of two sub-streams/strands: Race & Ethnicity and Diaspora, Migration & Transnationalism. These correspond to the two study groups involved in the coordination of the stream.

Please state on your abstract submission form the stream name and whether you would like to be considered for:

1. Race and Ethnicity
2. Diaspora, Migration and Transnationalism
3. Either/Both

For more info on the conference and how to submit abstracts:
http://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/bsa-annual-conference/submissions.aspx

If you would like to propose a special event/session, please use the form on the right side of the submissions page.

If you have any questions about the stream, please contact the stream co-ordinators:
Aaron Winter (co-convenor of the Race and Ethnicity Study Group): A.Winter@uel.ac.uk
Ipek Demir (co-convenor of the Diaspora, Migration and Transnationalism Study Group): id34@le.ac.uk

If you have any questions about the conference and submission process, please contact the BSA Events Team at: events@britsoc.org.uk

Call for papers: mini-symposium “Class, Gender and Migration”

Events:

Call for papers: mini-symposium “Class, Gender and Migration”;

Sebastien Chauvin and Saskia Bonjour will convene a mini-symposium on ‘Class, Gender and Migration’ in the framework of Conference Class in the 21^st Century organized by the Amsterdam Research Center on Gender and Sexuality (ARC GS) on 22-23 October 2015 at the University of Amsterdam. The mini-symposium will consist of two panels:

Class in the policy construction of the (un)deserving migrant

Immigration policies create categories of people that distinguish between those allowed to enter and stay in destination countries, and those to whom borders stayed closed.  A substantial body of scholarly work explores the ways in which these politics of belonging are shaped by conceptions of national identity, ethnicity and race. Increasingly, there has also been attention to the role of constructions of gender and sexuality in shaping immigration politics. While intersectional approaches to the analysis of immigration policies are thus on the rise, the role of class, and its intertwinement with other axes of inequality, has remained remarkably underexplored.

This panel asks which role class plays in the construction of the ‘(un)desirable’ or ‘(un)deserving migrant in political debate and policies. How are different requirements relating not only to income but also to education, housing and even national origin or ‘integration’ related to class? To which extent does class play a role not only in labour migration policies, but also in family migration and asylum policies? How does class intersect with ethnicity on the one hand and gender and sexuality on the other hand in construing degrees of desirability? Do we observe class serving as a proxy for ethnicity, or vice versa, in political debates and policies?

Class in mobility strategies and migration experiences

While class figures at various degrees in migration policy, it also shapes the strategies and experiences of transnational migrants. Class defines the resource inequalities that separate those who are able to migrate from those who lack the means to travel. It also determines the array of conditions that drive people to want to leave or not, whether in reference to local competition in origin communities or through classed imaginaries of success associated with destination countries. Together with gender and age, class cultures inform the nature of migration decisions and the types of collective expectations invested in individual migrants. This panel asks which role class plays in constraining and shaping the agency of international migrants, the differences in prestige between various groups of migrants,  and internal conflicts within diasporas. How do class differences translate into various experiences of transnational marriage and family migration? How does class become relevant for asylum seekers persecuted for their sexual or gender identity? Does class play out in value conflicts over gender and sexuality within migrant communities in host countries?  How do migrant men and women navigate and perform gendered and class expectations embedded into host country migration policies? Do policy categories only function as constraints, or can they also become resources to strategize with?

Deadline for abstract submission: 29 May 2015

Please submit your abstract (max. 250 words), indicating in which of the two panels you propose to present your paper, by using this online form: http://arcgs.uva.nl/news-events/events/social-class-conference/social-class-conference/content/folder/call-for-papers/call-for-papers/call-for-papers/cpitem-2/link/papers.html

We would appreciate it if you would forward this call to any colleagues who might be interested. If you have any comments or questions about this call, do not hesitate to contact Sebastien (s.m.g.chauvin@uva.nl) or  Saskia (s.a.bonjour@uva.nl).

 

Call for Papers: Diaspora: A one-day conference on a travelling concept Stockholm University September 9 2015

CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline May 12 2015

Diaspora: A one-day conference on a travelling concept

Stockholm University September 9 2015

Since the 1980s scholars of different backgrounds have contributed to the reinvention of diaspora as an important concept in academic research. As an analytical tool and perspective on the triadic relations built into the processes of “expatriate minority communities”, the concept travelled across disciplines and did at times change the disciplines or was itself altered in the process.
For this one-day conference we invite scholars to submit empirically based papers about diaspora and its ‘travelling’ features in different dimensions. The subjects, forms of life and artefacts under study are often transnationally distributed and expressed in fluid forms. How are researchers dealing with this? We are interested in papers discussing both conceptual and methodological challenges in conducting diaspora research.

In their attempts to understand some of the central processes and sociocultural phenomena associated with human migration, displacement, exile and transnational dispersal, scholars have applied the concept of diaspora in divergent ways. On the European scene there have been few attempts to learn from the diversity in the field of diaspora studies by, for example, exchanging experiences and discussing theoretical differences. The aim of this conference is therefore to contribute to such learning and encourage development in diaspora studies by implementing a cross-disciplinary dialogue between researchers in the humanities and the social sciences. For this cross-disciplinary dialogue we invite researchers who engage in analyses of various ways of constructing home and belonging in different diaspora spaces.
The conference is organized in a keynote session and a paper session (see program below). In this call for papers we address the conceptual development of the diaspora concept through a cross-disciplinary dialogue in three panels. We request for papers based on recent empirical research and on analyses of new forms of sociability, political mobilization or the production and presentation of cultural artefacts such as art, literature and films. We are particularly interested in soliciting abstracts from scholars at an early stage of their career (PhD students and Post-docs). This call for papers is for three panels on the following themes:

Panel 1: Diaspora: When experiences become identity Panel 2: Diaspora: Performing diaspora Panel 3: Diaspora: Homing at a distance

The first panel – Diaspora: When experiences become identity – primarily invites papers dealing with social mobilization and the creation of belonging among diasporic communities. How do we study the processes of transforming human experiences of exile, displacement and migration into feelings of belongings and identifications among diasporic communities?
How are these processes conceptualized in different disciplines and how do we utilize the divergent understandings in a cross-disciplinary dialogue?

The second panel – Diaspora: Performing diaspora – addresses the expressive forms of diaspora. What notions of homes and belongings are accentuated in expressive cultures of diasporas? How are these cultures instrumental in the social and political formations of diasporic communities? The panel invites papers featuring a cross-disciplinary dialogue on methods and the use of concepts when studying for instance ‘diasporic art’ and ‘culture’ and their role as constituencies of diasporas.

The third panel – Diaspora: Homing at a distance – addresses the narrating of home(s) in diasporas. The constructions of homes – the homing – are made both in relation to the ‘host-society’ and to the society of ‘origin’. How do we study and analyze the processes of ‘diasporic homing’ and the ‘emotional engaging’ of individuals and groups? The panel invites a cross-disciplinary dialogue on methods and analytical tools which serves the understanding of how multiple homes are constructed in diasporic practices.

Authors are kindly requested to send their abstracts of no more than 300 words by email to erik.olsson@socant.su.se or annika.rabo@socant.su.se no later than May 12, 2015.

Welcome!

Erik Olsson / Annika Rabo
Department of Social Anthropology
Stockholm University
SE 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden

Preliminary program for September 9, 2015

10.00 Opening of conference
10.15-11.00 Keynote lecture by Myria Georgiou, Dept of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science
11.00-12.00 Keynote panel with Avtar Brah, Birkbeck, London and Khachig Tölölyan, Wesleyan University Lunch break
13.00-17.00 Workshop session:
Panel 1: Diaspora: When experiences become identity Panel 2: Diaspora: Performing diaspora Panel 3: Diaspora: Homing at a distance

The panels will run in parallel.

Calls for papers: Forced Migration Review issue 51: major feature on ‘Thinking ahead: displacement, transition and solutions’

Forced Migration Review issue 51 – to be published in November 2015 – will include a major feature called ‘Thinking ahead: displacement, transition and solutions’.

Deadline for submission of articles: Monday 7th September 2015
www.fmreview.org/solutions

Source: Forced Migration List – List Archives: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html

The average number of years in which people are living in displacement has increased to nearly 20 years. The challenges that arise when people are forced to flee their homes for any length of time, but particularly when their displacement becomes protracted, are neither exclusively humanitarian nor exclusively developmental. These challenges are faced not only by the refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons themselves but also by the broader displacement-affected communities, including host societies and host countries, communities of origin and potential areas of return, and by those working with them. In addition the need has long been recognised to link humanitarian and development work in the early stages of an emergency in order to influence and implement both immediate and longer-term outcomes.

Addressing this combination of challenges has underpinned many initiatives within the humanitarian community over recent decades. Although over the years we may have found partial solutions, deeper understandings and revised formulations, the issues remain largely intractable. Lately these issues have found a new prominence with the Transitional Solutions Initiative, reframed in 2014 as the Solutions Alliance, for addressing protracted displacement.

For more background please see full call for articles online at www.fmreview.org/solutions

The FMR editors are planning to produce an issue comprising analytical, experiential and policy-oriented articles reflecting a diverse range of opinions and perspectives focusing on situations of forced displacement and addressing questions such as the following:

• What are the potential links between humanitarian and development programmes in finding solutions to displacement? Are there practical examples where such links have been explored and implemented in protracted displacements?
• What are the potential development impacts – positive as well as negative – of displacement?
• Where does displacement fit in the development agenda? What are potential development responses to displacement?
• Would greater involvement of development actors in seeking solutions to displacement help challenge resistance to hosting displaced people?
• How best can those most directly affected by displacement (refugees, IDPs, returnees) be active participants in these debates and initiatives?
• What have we learned from previous initiatives, and how can this inform the latest initiative (the Solutions Alliance)?
• What would be suitable legal or regulatory arrangements for supporting a transition from humanitarian needs to viable and sustainable solutions for displaced people? And what would be suitable institutional (social, cultural, economic, political, managerial) arrangements?
• How can we find ways to address the political conditionalities that hinder solutions to displacement in the countries of refuge or the countries of origin?
• To what extent are displacement issues being addressed effectively through national development plans?  What is the role of national governments?
• What are the roles of bilateral donors and development banks in supporting or complicating initiatives for humanitarian-development transitions in situations of displacement?
• Does the private sector have a role to play? Are there additional (less traditional) actors to consider?
• In this context, how can the needs and rights especially of the most vulnerable be protected?
• Are there alternatives to, or variations on, the traditional three ‘durable solutions’ that are more conducive to equitable solutions for protracted displacement? What are the risks and advantages of such alternatives?
• How can displacement solutions best be monitored, measured or analysed? How will we know that a displacement solution has been achieved?
• Do examples exist of effective transitional and durable solutions from which lessons can be drawn? What are the key conditions and drivers for successful solutions for displacement?
• In seeking new modalities are there risks to current, albeit unsatisfactory, arrangements?

Deadline for submission of articles: 7th September 2015

Maximum length: 2,500 words.

If you are interested in submitting an article, please email the Editors (fmr@qeh.ox.ac.uk) with a proposed outline. Please also consult our guide for authors at www.fmreview.org/writing-fmr.

We also welcome articles on other subjects relating to forced migration for consideration for publication in the ‘general articles’ section of the issue.

Best wishes

Marion Couldrey & Maurice Herson
FMR Editors
fmr@qeh.ox.ac.uk

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Call for Papers: Journal of Immigration Asylum and Nationality Law: Special Issue 2016

Journal of Immigration Asylum and Nationality Law:

Special Issue 2016

The Journal of Immigration Asylum and Nationality Law publishes one special issue a year. Proposals are now invited for the 2016 special issue (to be published in September 2016).

Proposals

Proposals should be emailed to the managing editor, Dr Helena Wray at H.Wray@mdx.ac.uk by Monday 1^st June 2015.

The editorial team will review all proposals received by that date and select the proposal that, in their view:

• Is of the highest quality both in terms of the contribution made by each article and of its overarching coherence, interest and originality as a special issue;
• Best reflects the interests of the journal and its readership.

Recent special issues have been on deprivation of citizenship and access to asylum and the editorial board welcomes proposals in new areas, in particular those that do not often receive sustained attention. The editorial board is interested in empirical, European, international and comparative work and in an interdisciplinary collection provided the primary focus is on immigration law and all articles are of interest or relevance within the UK immigration law context. Authors may be academics, legal practitioners or policy specialists. The journal’s readership includes legal academics, international organisations, NGOs, and UK-based legal practitioners.

Proposals should include the following information:

• Full contact details and a short biography (200 words maximum) of the proposed guest editor(s);
• An explanation of the rationale for the proposal of no more than 500 words, which should address its major themes, how it will advance knowledge, and its importance for the readership of the journal;
• A list of contributors with their institutional affiliations, a short biography of each (100 words maximum) and a confirmation of their commitment to the special issue;
• An abstract for each paper of no more than 200 words;
• Any information about the origins of the proposal, e.g., workshop, conference, research project, research network.

The special issue

The articles for the special issue should be between 45,000 and 50,000 words in total, including an introduction/overview by the guest editor(s). We normally expect the main articles to be between 7,000 and 10,000 words in length but can be a little flexible on either side.

The guest editor(s) will be responsible for liaising with authors and the JIANL editorial team throughout the process of paper submission and review. We ask them to ensure that the overall timetable for the special issue is adhered to. We appreciate that delays sometimes occur but ask that the guest editor keep us informed of any problems and works with us to resolve these.

We see guest editing as a cooperative process. The guest editor(s) should arrange for first drafts of articles to be received in the journal house style and fully referenced, approved by them and passed to the editorial team. The team will manage the independent review process but we may ask guest editors to provide us with names of possible reviewers, particularly in areas where we may not have our own contacts. Once reviews have been received, the editorial team will liaise with the guest editor(s) about any necessary revisions. Authors then resubmit their revised version with a note documenting the changes that have been made in response to the review.

Timetable

1^st June 2015: Deadline for submitting proposals

15^th September 2015: Guest editor(s) advised of decision

15^th February 2016: First drafts of articles submitted to JIANL editorial team

11th April 2016: Last date for reviewers’ comments to guest editors

13^th June 2016: Final drafts submitted to JIANL

September 2016: Publication

About Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law

JIANL is a peer reviewed journal published by Bloomsbury/Hart and the official journal of the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association, the professional body for UK immigration lawyers. It provides information and commentary on immigration law and provides a unique opportunity for the exchange of ideas and debate about immigration law between academics, policy analysts and leading practitioners. The journal is interested in comparative and international work but, as a UK-based journal, aims to publish articles that will be of relevance and interest to those working in the UK system.

If you would like to discuss any of this further, please contact the managing editor, Dr Helena Wray (H.Wray@mdx.ac.uk).

Call for Papers – Conference: Celebrating 155 years of Indians in South Africa

Conference : Call for Papers

Celebrating 155 years of Indians in South Africa

Theme: Ethnicity, Race and Citizenship: Place of Indians in the New South Africa

Conference Dates: 11-15 November, 2015

Venue: Howard College Campus, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa

Conference Registration Fee: $120 (USD) Early Registration Fee: $100 (USD) before 30 October, 2015 Student Registration Fee: $75 USD Abstract Submission Deadline: 31 July, 2015

The arrival of Indians since 1860 some as indentured workers and others as independent passengers with an intention to trade has fundamentally changed not only the demographic landscape of South Africa, but also had a deeper impact culturally, socially and religiously. On 16 November
2015 it will be 155 years of their presence in the country. Their experience extends from the colonial history to apartheid and finally culminating in the new South African dispensation. As such, their memories, their social history, their cultural and religious outlook has been shaped by these three key phases of history. In as much as they have shaped the memories of other cultural groups, they have been profoundly affected by their interactions with the rest of the South African population groups. This conference seeks to understand and appreciate as well as to conceptualise their presence in South Africa and also to assess and take stock of their contributions to the South African way of life as a whole, their troubles and anxieties not only of the past but also of the present. The conference aims to bring together researchers and academics to engage in critical discussion on a range of themes and topics that relate to South African Indians.

Although the focus is on South Africa, we also invite scholars working on Indian diaspora in other countries to offer papers and participate in the conference proceedings. The participation of scholars beyond South Africa will enable all of us in the field of diaspora studies to reflect on broader theoretical issues in conceptualising the Indian diaspora.

We therefore invite scholars and academics both from South Africa as well as beyond to submit papers for a 3 full day-long conference in Durban. Durban is a city that has the largest concentration of Indians outside of India. It is a coastal city with vibrant beaches and plenty of tourist attractions in and around the greater metropolitan area.

Listed below are some of the sub-themes covered. Although participants are encouraged to submit under these themes, papers outside the scope of these themes are also invited as long as they relate to the Indian diasporic experience.

– Issues of ethnicity within the South African Indian society and beyond
– Inter-racial relations between Indians and other population groups in South Africa
– Issues of Indian citizenship in South Africa
– Issues of definition-South African Indian and Indian South African
– Cultural and Religious Contributions to South Africa
– Significant Public Personalities of Indian descent in South Africa
– Political Future of Indians in South Africa
– Affirmative Action and South African Indians
– Social and Cultural Geographies of South African Indians
– Media, Theatre, and Art
– Indian Diaspora as Transnationals
– Indian Diaspora beyond South Africa
– Caste, Gender and Religious Identities in the Indian Diaspora
– Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Identities in the Indian Diaspora

Scholars are invited to submit an abstract of 150 words along with the title of the paper. Postgraduate students working on any aspect of Indian diaspora are also invited to submit papers. We are in the process of setting up a website for the conference and in the mean time you can check for updates at the following website.

www.idc2015.ukzn.ac.za

You can submit your abstract on the email mentioned below. For more details and for submission of abstracts please contact:

P. Pratap Kumar (Professor Emeritus)
School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics Howard College Campus University of KwaZulu Natal Durban 4041 South Africa
Email: diasporasa@yahoo.co.za
Tel: 027-31-260-7539/7303
Fax: 027:31-260-7286
— The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). The Open University is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

 

Call for Papers: Journal of Intercultural Studies Inaugural Conference 2015

Call for Papers: Journal of Intercultural Studies Inaugural Conference 2015 

CUNY Graduate Center, New York November 19-20, 2015

Submission Deadline: 1 June 

The Journal of Intercultural Studies is pleased to announce a call for papers to be presented at its Inaugural Conference at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City, NY on November 19-20, 2015.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

Professor Eduardo Bonilla Silva, Duke University, USA

Professor Gurminder K Bhambra, University of Warwick, UK

We hope to bring together research on a number of themes that together represent the breadth of journal’s aims and scope, as well as its interdisciplinary and global content. The event encourages the participation of emerging and established scholars from a variety of disciplines and locations with an interest in critical scholarship on the challenges and potentialities of contemporary cultural formations and transformations.

We welcome theoretically-informed abstracts on these themes but not limited to

• Citizenship, Nationhood and Racialisation
• Transnationalism and Diaspora
• Hybridity and Border-Crossing
• Mixed-Race Postcolonialism and Indigeneity
• Multicultural Alternatives
• Everyday Multiculturalism
• Performing Culture Migration Theory

Please submit your abstracts to unesco.cdsj@deakin.edu.au

Hosted by the Journal of Intercultural Studies, supported by CUNY Graduate Center, the UNESCO Chair in Comparative Research on Cultural Diversity and Social Justice, and Taylor and Francis

 

Call for Papers: Encountering Perpetrators of Mass Killings, Political Violence and Genocide, 1-3 September 2015, University of Winchester

Call for Papers: Encountering Perpetrators of Mass Killings, Political Violence and Genocide

1-3 September 2015,
University of Winchester

Keynote: Prof. Donald Bloxham (University of Edinburgh)

The 20th & 21st centuries have borne witness to mass killings, political violence & genocide. As we move into the new millennium the people who have orchestrated & participated in such acts remain figures of fascination & of revulsion in Western society. Yet despite this enduring fascination, and the importance of understanding the dynamics of violence, there is a reluctance in the public sphere and in education to address the complexities of engaging with or representing these perpetrators.

This reluctance poses the question of just how much is known or understood about those who commit such acts. This interdisciplinary conference aims to confront difficult questions about perpetrators through an exploration of the topic in a variety of memory spaces including literature, film, museums, education, trials & the media.

Possible questions for discussion could include, but are not restricted to:

* How have those responsible for genocidal violence been represented?
* How have societies encountered the idea of perpetration & the figure of specific perpetrators?
* What is the role of the media in defining our engagement with perpetrators?
* How have societies with a history of political and/or colonial violence confronted past & present acts of genocide?
* How have war crimes trials influenced our conceptualisation of perpetrator identity?
* Can we reconcile the need to understand perpetrators with the need to ensure that the victims are not marginalised?
* What challenges to gender constructions are posed by female perpetrators?
* How are masculine identities constructed in association with genocidal practices?
* How are perpetrators of mass rape represented?
* How have perpetrators been represented in commemorative culture and education?

Individual paper proposals of no more than 300 words, accompanied by a brief CV, should be sent to encountering.perpetrators@gmail.com<mailto:encountering.perpetrators@gmail.com> by 31 March 2015. Established scholars, emerging scholars in the field, postgraduate students & educators are all encouraged to apply.

For more information, see https://encounteringperpetrators.wordpress.com/

Dr Kara Critchell, Research Assistant in History, Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex
Dr Emiliano Perra, Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, University of Winchester