Panel Proposal - British International Studies Association (BISA) Annual Conference (18-20 June 2014, Dublin, Ireland)
We are looking for papers to include in our panel proposal for the British International Studies Association (BISA) Annual Conference, which will take place in June 2014 in Dublin. The conference theme is 'A Crisis of Global Governance?' and we intend to propose a panel entitled 'Forced Displacement and the failure of Global Governance?'
Call for Papers: Forced Displacement and the failure of Global Governance?
The global refugee population is at its highest point since the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. Two decades later and the international community struggles to deal with the exodus from, and internal displacement within, Syria. With this, the international apparatus responsible for the protection of displaced people is under extreme pressure to meet ever-changing protection needs. Efforts to do so are inhibited by a general lack of international solidarity toward protection, while many legal and operational frameworks employed were created over a half-century ago. The causes and patterns of forced displacement have changed, with much neither involving a 'well-founded fear of persecution' or the crossing of an international border. The past twenty years have seen the increased recognition of internal displacement, statelessness and the migratory implications of natural disasters, climate change and urbanisation. This panel thus asks if the mechanisms for addressing forced displacement are still fit for purpose, or if continued protracted displacement crises signal a failure of global governance. Further how the varieties of actors involved in provision of protection are adapting to changing dynamics in forced displacement.
Possible paper themes:
* International or regional responses to forced displacement
* The changing role of international institutions and organisations to forced displacement
* The role of normative and legal frameworks; beyond the 1951 Convention
* The legitimacy of those providing protection
* Conceptual and typological problems in forced displacement, including those related to 'mixed migration', 'survival migration' and the 'asylum-migration nexus'
* Refugee camps and alternative zones of protection
* Failure in integration, burden-sharing and durable solutions
* Innovative attempts to address forced displacement issues
Please send paper titles, abstracts (200 words max), contact details and affiliation to the panel organisers, Neil James Wilson (neil.james.wilson[at]city.ac.uk) and Danielle J. Grigsby (grigsbyd[at]vt.edu) by 15 November 2013. Authors of selected abstracts will then be notified preceding abstract submission to BISA for consideration.
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