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historical. Originally posted on the forced migration jiscmail list:
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--RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2006
30 August - 1st September 2006 at the Royal Geographical Society with IBG,
London
Call for papers on:
Asylum, Immigration and Social Justice
A session organised on behalf of the Social and Cultural Geography Research
Group
Global conflict, social injustices and civil war, resulting in forced
migration, find local expression in government responses to the request for
asylum and in the challenges posed by the resettlement of new migrants at
the neighbourhood and community level. In the UK, as in much of Europe,
debates about immigration, asylum and integration have become highly
politicized, especially in the context of socially constructed panics about
threats to the economy, culture and 'national security' posed by migrant
'others'. The government has responded with stringent measures to deter and
control the flow and to manage the reception and resettlement process. The
policy of dispersing asylum seekers on a no-choice basis, often to regions
with few ethnic minorities or culturally appropriate support structures, has
brought local tensions and left vulnerable new migrants occupying socially
and economically marginal spaces in local communities.
This session aims to explore conceptual and empirical approaches to
understanding the experiences and consequences of new migration at the
'community' and neighbourhood level in the UK. We welcome papers on a broad
range of themes, including:
- relations between asylum seekers/refugees and communities into which they
move/find themselves;
- experiences of migrants in the transition from being asylum seekers to
refugees;
- local political, public and media discourses on forced migration;
- local activism on asylum;
- the contested notion of 'integration' and the political and policy
discourses surrounding this;
- experiences of refugee housing, employment and community integration;
- understandings of 'self', national identity, citizenship and belonging
raised by new migration;
- issues of social justice, welfare and human rights as they pertain to
asylum seeker and refugee settlement at the local level.
Session convenors:
Deborah Phillips (Leeds) and Nissa Finney (Liverpool)
Paper proposals in the form of a 200 word abstract, using the RGS form
(<http://www.rgs.org/pdf/AC2006%20Abstract%20submission%20form.doc>), should
be submitted to Deborah Phillips by 20th January 2006. An abstract will
also need to be submitted to the RGS by 31 January 2006: [log in to unmask]
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