Workshop - The deportation of unaccompanied minors from the EU: family-tracing and government accountability in the European Return Platform for Unaccompanied Minors (ERPUM) project
This event will be streamed online today from 11am BST Friday 3 May 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 on YouTube and join the conversation through Twitter directly from the RSC website. Visit http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/erpum-workshop/#stream
About the workshop
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.
This has raised a number of political, legal and moral concerns. These include the feasibility of family-tracing and the safety of deported children in war-torn Afghanistan, the (in)compatibility of ERPUM's goals with the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the European jurisdiction relating to children deported from their territories. Furthermore, European states have been reluctant to disseminate information about the progress of ERPUM negotiations and the concrete practices the project is envisioned to involve.
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 'Ethical reflections on ERPUM' - Matthew J Gibney, RSC
15:00-16:00 Coffee/tea
16:00-17:00 Panel discussion - Dawn Chatty, RSC (Chair); Matthew J Gibney, RSC; Martin Lemberg-Pedersen, University of Copenhagen; Jan Murk, UNICEF Netherlands; Eva Singer, Danish Refugee Council; and Andrea Vonkeman, UNHCR (by video link)
17:00-17:30 Summary and closing session
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