Cinema and Migration
Northeast Modern Languages Association (NeMLA) 2014 Convention
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States
3-6 April, 2014
Hosted by Susquehanna University
The 2014 conference will feature a number of study areas, including Cultural Studies and Film. Details of the Cinema and Migration panel are below:
This panel aims to explore cinema across borders and in comparative perspective. In an age of global modernity, viewing the migrant experience from the perspective of a single national culture is restrictive. Submissions that engage with themes of exile, displacement, immigrants, emigrants, flows of migration, or people who do not fit within legitimate borders and boundaries are welcome. All theoretical, methodological, and cultural approaches to the 'border' experience are welcome. 150-300 word abstract to [log in to unmask] by Sep. 30.
http://nemla.org/convention/2014/cfp_culturalstudiesandfilm.html
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Anti-Trafficking Review
CALL FOR PAPERS
'Following the Money: Spending on Anti-Trafficking'
Anti-Trafficking Review, Special Issue
Issue 3 to be published in 2014
Deadline for Submission: 15 December 2013
Anti-trafficking funding and work has mushroomed since the 1990s. Lacking is analysis of those anti-trafficking funds - where they come from, who they go to, what they are meant to do, what they actually achieve, and indeed whether they are needed.
Donors, organisations and trafficked persons' priorities are not always aligned when it comes to how to spend money. In a first indication of a global mismatch between donors and organisations, AWID's 'Where's the Money for Women's Rights?' survey of over 1000 women's rights organisations shows that donors prioritise anti-trafficking (placing it in their top 10 list of priority issues to fund) more than women's organisations (who do not see anti-trafficking among top 10 priority issues). Trafficked persons may or may not benefit from money flows aimed in their direction, or indeed may suffer as a result of anti-trafficking spending. Many organisations specifically dedicated to anti-trafficking think donors do not prioritise this issue enough. Others feel anti-trafficking funds, especially for more surface-level awareness campaigns, divert attention and money away from substantial human rights work on issues concerning workers, migrants, woman and children.
Of course, politics behind anti-trafficking money abound, and recipient organisations wonder whether they should take 'tied' funds, funds with restrictions or 'dirty' money that, for instance, may have originated from the profits of a company that employs workers in exploitative conditions. HIV/AIDS organisations struggle to decide whether to take up funds from a donor that mandates they stop handing out condoms. In recent years governments have rushed to spend money on a range of poorly designed initiatives in the hope of moving out of a low ranking in the US government's yearly Trafficking in Persons Report.
The Anti-Trafficking Review calls for papers for a Special Issue 'Following the Money: Spending on Anti-Trafficking'. This issue will present well-researched articles that analyze the funding landscape. The journal is interested in what kinds of organisations and work have been raised up by anti-trafficking funding and what work has been sidelined or excluded as a result. The journal is interested in studies of money trails that reveal how anti-trafficking money has changed the world for the better or for worse. Papers may address:
. Total amounts allocated by government and private donors since the beginning of 2001, including any identifiable shifts in the geographical areas to which money has been allocated or the purpose of funding;
. Investments made by donors during the first decade since the Trafficking Protocol which have (or have not) had a noticeable impact-and lessons that donors may have learnt about what sort of spending actually prevents human trafficking;
. Motives behind anti-trafficking funding, such as, for instance, self-promotion in awareness raising campaigns, versus 'genuine' anti-trafficking goals;
. Tied aid, restrictions on spending, and foreign policy agendas such as democratisation behind aid;
. How spending on anti-trafficking compares to related sectors, now or historically, and whether increases in allocations to anti-trafficking can be seen to have reduced allocations to specific other sectors (and with what results).
. How funding for anti-trafficking is divided between prevention, protection and prosecution or other core anti-trafficking activities and whether this split is justified;
. How money is accounted for, and what return donors seek for their funding;
. How organisations have benefited in particular from the inflow of money for anti-trafficking initiatives, and with what wider ramifications;
. How independent funding sources are, and impacts on programming when a proportion of funds is linked to State funding mechanisms.
The Review promotes a human rights based approach to anti-trafficking, and it aims to explore the issue in its broader context including gender analyses and intersections with labour and migrant rights. The journal offers a space for dialogue for those seeking to communicate new ideas and findings. Academics, practitioners, trafficked persons and advocates are invited to submit articles. The Review presents rigorously considered, peer reviewed material in clear English. The journal is an open source, annual publication with a readership in 78 countries. The Anti-Trafficking Review is abstracted/indexed in: CrossRef, Ulrich's, Ebsco Host, Directory of Open Access Journals, WorldCat, eGranary, e-journals.org, and (pending) ProQuest.
Deadline for submission: 15 December 2013.
Word count: 4,000-6,000 words, including footnotes and abstract
If possible, let us know in advance (at [log in to unmask]) what particular aspect/s of this topic you propose to write about by telling us the title and scope of your proposed article. The Review's style guide and submission procedures are available at www.antitraffickingreview.org.
Special Issue Guest Editor: Mike Dottridge
Editor: Rebecca Napier-Moore
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Access to Asylum
Call for papers: Access to asylum: Current challenges and future directions
29-30 May 2014
Monash University Prato Centre, Italy
Deadline for abstract submissions: Friday, 8 November 2013
More information on the conference can be found here: http://www.law.monash.edu.au/access-asylum/.
Read the call for papers here: http://www.law.monash.edu.au/access-asylum/papers/index.html.
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The Meaning of Migration
The Meaning of Migration: A JOMEC Journal One-Day Conference
Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies
Thursday 17th April 2014
JOMEC Journal invites the submission of abstracts on the topic of migration, for a free one-day conference to be held during Easter recess 2014, with a view to publishing a selection of papers in a special issue of the journal in winter 2014.
The conference seeks to bring together original scholarship exploring the meaning of migration from a variety of theoretical perspectives and/or methodological approaches. Research may be theoretically or empirically driven or both, and work traversing disciplinary boundaries is especially welcomed. A topic central to political agendas, featuring daily in national and global news headlines and positioned as of considerable consequence to publics within and across nation states around the world - liberal democratic and otherwise - the meaning, or social, cultural and political significance of migration has become of immense importance to scholars across a range of disciplinary fields.
Papers are invited which explore the meaning of migration through any of the suggested themes below, or, any other aspect of migration:
. Dominant or alternative media or political discourses on migration;
. Migration and neoliberalism or globalisation;
. Migration and questions of citizenship or belonging;
. Migration and cultural or legal norms;
. International convergence, or sharing of migration policy regimes;
. Securitisation, disciplinary techniques, surveillance technologies or border controls;
. Migrant testimonies and/or hidden or untold migration stories (e.g., of detention or deportation);
. Relationships between human rights and immigration systems or policies;
. Analyses of particular forms of migration in relation to any of the above themes (e.g., labour migration, family migration, student visas, asylum seeking and refugees, human trafficking, other forms of forced migration, internal displacement, emigration).
Abstracts and any other enquiries should be directed to Kerry Moore: [log in to unmask] The deadline for abstracts is Monday 2nd December 2013.
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Dr Kerry Moore
Chair of Research Ethics
Co-Director: Race, Representation and Cultural Politics Research Group
Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies
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Co-editor JOMEC: Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies Journal
http://cf.ac.uk/jomec/research/journalsandpublications/jomecjournal/index.html
Reviews Editor: Social Semiotics
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/10350330.html
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Migration and Law Network
Dear all
This is a follow-up to Eddie's message yesterday about the Migration and Law Network's conference on 28-29 March 2014 (for Eddie's message, see below).
As many of you will know, the Migration and Law Network was set up in 2007 with the aim of promoting teaching and research of immigration law, especially in the United Kingdom. It has two co-chairs (us), and a steering committee of a dozen or so UK-based academics and NGO staff.
Within its wider mission, the aim of next year's conference is to provide an opportunity for academics, graduate students and others to present their own research to (hopefully) a sympathetic and knowledgeable audience. This is a new initiative for the Network, and we really hope it will be a success. If you are working in the field, we would encourage you to present your research at the conference, or failing that, to come along to the conference and share your thoughts.
If you are interested in running a stream and/ or presenting a paper, please contact any of Eddie Bruce-Jones ([log in to unmask]), Nadine El-Enany ([log in to unmask]) or Bernard Ryan ([log in to unmask]) by 15 November.
Finally - thanks to Birkbeck College for agreeing to host the conference, and to Eddie Bruce-Jones for his great work so far in making it happen.
Bernard Ryan, School of Law, University of Leicester, [log in to unmask]
Prakash Shah, Law School, Queen Mary University of London, [log in to unmask]
Co-chairs, Migration and Law Network
From: Mailing List for the Migration and Law Network [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Eddie Bruce-jones
Sent: 23 September 2013 19:18
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Subject: [MIGRATIONLAW] Migration and Law Conference 2014
Dear MLN list,
Please see below for the Call for Papers for the following conference:
A Sea of Troubles? Problematising Migration Law.
The 2014 Migration and Law Conference, in association with Birkbeck College School of Law.
28 - 29 March 2014
Deadline for papers/ streams: 15 November 2013
Please forward this on to interested colleagues. For more information and to register, please visit http://mln2014conference.eventbrite.co.uk/.
Very best regards,
Eddie
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Dr des Eddie Bruce-Jones
Lecturer in Law
Director of LLM QLD Programme
Birkbeck College School of Law
University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7631 6500 | Email: [log in to unmask]
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UndocNet (Reminder and deadline extension)
Dear all,
Abstracts and registrations welcome for this conference. Please feel free to circulate.
Call for papers - UndocNet Conference London 6 December 2013 (deadline extended)
Undocumented Migrants, Ethnic Enclaves and Networks: Opportunities, traps or class-based constructs (UndocNet), an ESRC funded two-year project, will be holding its end of research project conference in London on Friday 6 December 2013. UndocNet has been exploring the labour market experiences and aspirations of 55 irregular migrants in London from three countries of origin - Bangladesh, China and Turkey (including Kurds) - and 24 minority ethnic entrepreneurs employing people from these three groups. The context of the research has been the economic downturn, increasingly restrictive immigration controls, raids on businesses suspected of employing people without correct documentation and the deportation of irregular migrants. Within this contemporary context the project has been concerned to understand decisions to use or not to use social capital in the form of co-ethnic networks in the search for work and for workers, in or out of ethnic enclaves, from the perspectives of workers and their employers. The research has investigated the ways in which migrants and their employers use their social networks and other resources in relation to work and the ways in which working relationships operate within frameworks of ethnicity, class and gender.
Details of the project, the conference and call for papers are available at http://www.undocnet.org/
There is no registration fee for the conference. Submit an abstract by email to Leena Kumarappan ([log in to unmask]) by 4th October 2013.
The Call for Papers and details about how to present contributions will be available on the UndocNet website http://www.undocnet.org/. The finalised Conference Programme will be available from October 2013.
For the information about the presentation of the papers or to register for the conference please contact Dr Leena Kumarappan: [log in to unmask] There are a limited number of places and early registration is advised.
Best wishes
Leena
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Working Lives Research Institute
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
London Metropolitan University
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