Workshop - The deportation of unaccompanied minors: family-tracing and government accountability in the European Return Platform for Unaccompanied Minors (ERPUM) project
Date: 10:30am, Friday, May 03, 2013
Presenter/Convenor: Professor Dawn Chatty and Dr Martin Lemberg-Pedersen
Location: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB
The European Return Platform for Unaccompanied Minors (ERPUM) is an EU project to find new methods for the return of unaccompanied minors, mainly from Afghanistan, who have received a final rejection of their asylum application.
By European law, unaccompanied children cannot be removed before they reach 18 years of age. However, deportations of children from partner countries of the ERPUM project - including the UK - are taking place now, and the lack of consultation or public access to information about the project raises serious questions of government accountability.
This one-day workshop will convene academics and policymakers to discuss this urgent and critical issue.
Programme
10:30-11:00 Registration and coffee/tea
11:00-11.15 Introduction - Dawn Chatty, RSC
11:15-11.45 'The evolution of the ERPUM project' - Martin Lemberg-Pedersen, University of Copenhagen
11:45-12:30 'Afghan perspectives on ERPUM' - Liza Schuster, City University London.
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:15 'ERPUM and the Convention on the Rights of the Child' - Rebecca Stern, University of Uppsala
14:15-15:00 'The legal and political viability of ERPUM under international law' - Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Danish Institute for International Studies
15:00-16:00 Coffee/tea
16:00-16:45 'Ethical reflections on ERPUM' - Matthew J Gibney, RSC
16:45-17:30 Panel discussion
17:30-18:00 Summary and closing session
Registration
A limited number of places are available to attend this workshop. To register your interest, please complete the online registration form http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/erpum-register-interest
If you are unable to attend in person, this event will be streamed online and we greatly encourage the participation of academics, policymakers, students and activists involved in asylum welfare. Online participants will be able to follow the event live and join the conversation through Twitter. Further details will be announced on the RSC website http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/erpum-workshop/#stream
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