Dear Colleagues,
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.
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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
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