2nd Annual Student Conference on Forced Migration
Warwick University, March 15th, 2004
The growing national and international interest on the refugee phenomenon is
currently reflected in the growing number of students working in the field of
forced migration in the UK. Postgraduate students in different universities
are researching various aspects of the issue from different perspectives. The
First Annual Student Conference on Forced Migration that was held in Oxford
in February 2003, proved to be a successful response to the need for a
postgraduate student forum on forced migration and asylum in the UK.
Therefore, The Second Annual Student Conference on Forced Migration has been
organised with the same ethos, entirely coordinated by students with the aim
of creating a relaxed and supportive environment in which postgraduates can
meet, present and share their research and their experience.
All post-graduates (MA/MSc/MPhil/PhD, etc.) studying forced migration are
invited to attend this collaborative, participatory, research-exchange
conference. Academics and practitioners are welcome to join us.
This year the conference will also include four parallel workshops that will
offer more focused discussions on various practical, methodological, and
career related issues led by experts in the field.
TO REGISTER: Please email [log in to unmask] with the following contact
details:
Your name
Your university and department
Your graduate programme and/or thesis title
Your year of study
Your contact details (email & phone)
A conference fee of £15 (including lunch) may be charged at the door, subject
to funding availability.
For any further enquiries, email us at [log in to unmask] or visit
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/crer/fmsc04/.
Please pass this call on to any potentially interested students!!
PROGRAMME 2004: 2nd Annual Student Conference on Forced Migration
CRER - Warwick University, March 15th, 2004
Provisionary programme
8-9:30 Registration
9:30 Welcome
10:00 Panel I: From policy to experience: refugee identity and integration in
Europe
Clare Walter (University of East London)
"Once a Refugee, Always a Refugee? The ongoing experience of refugeness after
asylum."
Liana Lewis (Nottingham Trent University)
"What is to be a Refugee (and) Child in the Island? How do Refugee Children
experience their lives in the 21st Century England."
Anastasia Dimitriadou (The Institute of Education, London)
"An exploration of refugees' experiences as English language students in
Further education colleges."
Nando Sigona (PhD candidate, Oxford Brookes University)
"Policy and practice of refugee integration in Italy and Sweden."
11:30 Coffee Break
12:00 Panel II: Refugees as social actors: strategies and processes of
adaptation
Choman Hardi (PhD candidate, University of Kent in Canterbury)
"Kurdish women refugees: obstacles and opportunities."
Alice Szczepanikova (Central European University, Budapest)
"Seeking asylum: Gender Roles and Conjugal Relationships Challenged (The case
of Chechen Refugees in the Czech Republic)."
Anna Lindley (Development studies, University of Oxford)
"Refugee Diaspora and financial remittances: exploring the case of Somalia."
Fatmata Lovetta Sesay (University of Munich)
"How do refugees fare in rich and poor countries? An empirical analysis."
WORKSHOP A:
What's next after postgraduate research?
Speakers who recently completed postgraduate research will talk about their
different career paths and personal experiences after postgraduate study. The
different professional routes open to postgraduates who have studied forced
migration issues will be addressed, and top tips on creative ways of
disseminating research findings will be presented. The talks by the invited
speakers will be followed by general discussion and opportunities for
questions and answers.
WORKSHOP B:
Ethics and access and Information black hole or information overload?
Navigating secondary data sources on refugees and asylum seekers
This session will be composed of two 45- minute workshops.
The first will address the ethics and the politics of doing research on
refugees and asylum seekers from both an academic and a NGO/RCO perspective.
The second will present some of the main sources of secondary data and
information on forced migration issues available to postgraduate researchers.
Each 'mini-workshop' includes presentations from invited speakers followed by
general discussion and a questions and answer session.
1:30 Lunch
2:30 Panel III: Case studies from origin and settlement contexts
Leben Nelson Moro (University of Oxford)
"Oil explotation, Civil War and Mass expulsions of South Sudanese."
Nida Bikmen (University of New York)
"Memories of homeland, residues of ethnic violence. How different discourses
about the history of ethnic relations in Bosnia affect interethnic attitudes
and contacts in exile."
Anamitra Deb (University of Oxford)
"Conservation, Displacement and Indigenous Rights: A case-study of the Basarwa
in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, 1986-2003."
Shahira Samy (University of Exeter)
"50 years to be finally recognised as refugees: The story of two Palestinian
Tribes…"
WORKSHOP C:
About refugees, on refugees, with refugees? Issues of participation,
representation and narrative research.
This session will aim to address the following questions:
Should research on refugee and asylum issues be more participatory?
Can postgraduate research be more participatory?
Can narrative and oral history research increase the participation and
representation of forced migrants in research projects?
The session will consist of presentations from invited speakers from the NGO
sector and academia, followed by open discussion and opportunities for
questions and answers.
WORKSHOP D:
Breaking out of the academy: evidence based practice and policy and the role
of postgraduate research
This session will examine the aims and processes relating to evidence based
policy and practice (EBPP), and the role of postgraduate research in
contributing to this. The workshop will focus particularly on how NGOs use
research and will examine instances of research collaboration between NGOs and
postgraduates. The session will consist of presentations from invited speakers
from the NGO sector and academia, followed by open discussion and
opportunities for questions and answers.
4:00 Coffee Break
4:30 Panel IV: Policy and law: processes, practices and models
Yuriy Sak (University of Wolverhampton)
"Taking the Right to Return Seriously."
Michael Khabie-Zeitoune (University of London)
"The Labour government’s position in the parliamentary debate surrounding
major internal reforms of the asylum system in the United Kingdom from
September 2001 to November 2002."
Elizabeth Rowley (John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
"Local Integration of Refugee Services: the hand-over model vs. a systems
approach."
Alexander Betts (Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University)
"The International Relations of the 'New' Extra-Territorial Approaches to
Refugee Protection: Explaining the Policy Initiatives of the UK Government and
UNHCR."
6:00 Conclusion and discussion
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