Call for papers: Urban Displacement: Panel at the 12th conference of the
International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM),
University of Nicosia, Cyprus, June 28-July 2. Deadline for receipt of
abstracts February 8th.
If you are interested in contributing a paper to this panel (call for
papers is below) please send an abstract of no more than 250 words to
Michael Collyer, IASFM Treasurer, at [log in to unmask] before
February 8th. We have a small amount of funding from UNHCR to support
the participation of individuals able to present on this panel who also
qualify for an IASFM grant (students from anywhere in the world and
anyone working in the South) which will cover some or all of transport,
accommodation and conference fees. If you would like to apply for a
grant please include a short CV with your abstract. Please note that
papers should ideally be based on recent empirical research - if this is
not obvious from the abstract please mention it in a covering email. Cfp
follows.
Dr Michael Collyer
IASFM Treasurer
Sussex Centre for Migration Research
University of Sussex
Brighton, BN19SJ, UK.
Call for papers: Panel Session at IASFM12: Urban Displacement
2008 was the year in which humanity became predominantly urbanised; more
people now live in cities than in rural areas. Whether this is also true
of refugees and other displaced people is open to debate, but the
challenges faced by refugees in urban areas have raised considerable
attention in recent years, with special issues of both Refuge and the
Journal of Refugee Studies devoted to the subject. Urban areas provide a
dramatic contrast to refugee camps where the entire logic of settlement
revolves around identification and efficient aid delivery. Urban areas
are the opposite, refugees are often invisible and obtaining resources
presents a continual challenge. This anonymity may be attractive to
refugees, but there are also serious difficulties. They may only be
'officially' invisible, invisible only from the perspective of city
planners or local government. To local populations, the displaced are
often all too visible and frequently provide a source of cheap labour or
an outlet for unrelated hostilities. This panel seeks to extend these
ideas to include people displaced within their countries of origin for
various reasons. Problems associated with the visibility/invisibility of
these populations may be even more acute than for rural or camp-based
refugees. Definitions and official categorisations of urban will
obviously vary between locations and this will be one thing we discuss.
The panel will bring together research with refugees and IDPs in urban
areas from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, but contributions
should ideally be based on recent, empirical research.
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