**Hopefully this will be of interest to the critical geography community**
FINAL REVISED PROGRAMME
One-day conference: Migration and Crisis in Europe
Wednesday 29 April 2015
Co-organized by the Centre for Social and Criminological Research and the Social Policy Research Centre (Middlesex University)
Place: Committee Room 3, Hendon Town Hall, Middlesex University, The Burroughs, London
For directions see Middlesex campus map: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/58938/Hendon_Campus_Pocketmap_2013.pdf
THIS EVENT IS FREE TO ATTEND BUT PLEASE BOOK A PLACE VIA EVENTBRITE: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/migration-and-crisis-in-europe-a-one-day-conference-tickets-15615747120
SUMMARY
This one-day conference will explore the multiple and contradictory links between migration and crisis in relation to questions of borders, politics, labour and social reproduction. A key focus will be to confront the situation in Britain (and the event has been purposely scheduled to coincide with the UK general election campaign) with the wider situation in Europe and particularly the Mediterranean region.
Crisis is interpreted not simply in economic terms but as a broader idea that encompasses, for instance, the impact of recent political events in the Mediterranean region upon migration flows and the contemporaneous crisis of EU migration and border policies. Morever, crisis is not just a label that describes a set of conjunctures but also functions as a powerful narrative device that frames our thinking of contemporary social phenomena.
The conference will be structured around a series of papers by international guest speakers and researchers at Middlesex University, followed by a round table discussion that will seek to reflect on the ways in which crisis has shaped the ways in which migration is governed, experienced and understood.
PROGRAMME
09.00 Tea and coffee available
09.30 Welcome and brief introductions
Kevin McDonald and Vincenzo Ruggiero (Middlesex University)
09.45 “Thinking through migration and crisis in contemporary Europe”
Nick Dines, Nicola Montagna and Elena Vacchelli (Middlesex University)
10.15 “Crisis, migration and the European borderland “
Julien Jeandesboz (University of Amsterdam)
10.45 "The entanglement of humanitarianism and securitization on and beyond the border: from Lampedusa to the agricultural fields of Southern Italy"
Nick Dines (Middlesex University)
11.15 Break
11.45 “Shifting borderscapes and border narratives: reflections on the changing character of borders at the southeast margins of Europe”
Panos Hatziprokopiou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
12.15 “Migration and the ‘crisis’ of British identity: voices from the Right”
Nicola Montagna, Jon Mulholland and Erin Sanders-McDonagh (Middlesex University)
12.45 Lunch
13.45 “Large-scale European migration to the UK and the challenge to EU free movement in times of crisis”
Alessio D’Angelo and Eleonore Kofman (Middlesex University)
14.15 “Irish highly qualified migrations: narrating 'success' in the context of economic crisis”
Louise Ryan (Middlesex University)
14.45 Tea and Coffee
15.00 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: “What migration and crisis?”
with contributions from: Marthe Achtnich (Oxford University); Rutvica Andrijasevic (Bristol University); Anastasia Christou (Middlesex University); Don Flynn (Migrant Rights Network); Dominic Pasura (Middlesex University); Enrica Rigo (University Roma Tre).
17.00 End of conference
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