MUSLIM FAMILIES IN EUROPE: SOCIAL CARE PROVISION
APRIL 23-24, 1999
Islington Town Hall, Council Chambers
Upper Street, London N1
The University of North London, together with its partners the London
Borough of Islington Race Equality Unit and the Indo-Pakistan Cultural
Centre, are organising a conference to explore the place of Muslim
Families in Europe.
The conference will bring together scholars and social service
professionals from Europe to examine current political and ideological
debates on the Muslim presence in Europe; family support for the
diversity of Muslim families in Europe; empirical studies on Muslim
families; social policy and the theoretical framework of statutory and
voluntary care provision in Europe.
A new report Muslim Families in Europe: Social Existence and Social Care
by Fatima Husain and Margaret O'Brien will be launched at the conference.
This EU DGV-funded study describes the current situation of Muslim
families and social care provision in the United Kingdom, Belgium and
Denmark. Participating partners are:
Indo-Pakistan Cultural Centre, London
Service Social des Etrangers d'Accueil et de Formation, Brussels
Dokumentations og Radgivnings Centeret om Racediskrimination (DRC),
Copenhagen
Race Equality Unit of the London Borough of Islington
Outline conference programme:
Friday, April 23
9:00 Coffee/Tea and Registration
9:30 Welcome: Margaret O'Brien (UNL)
Derek Sawyer (Leader of Islington Council)
9:45 Fatima Husain (UNL): Muslim Families in Europe: Social existence and
social care
10:15 Keynote address: Mustafa Hussain (DRC, Denmark)Minorities and the
media in Denmark
10:45 Questions and discussion
11:00 Coffee/tea break
11:30 Khursid Sultan (DRC, Denmark)
12:00 Keynote address: Yaseem Alibhai Brown (IPPR, London)Imagining new
Muslim identities in Europe
12:30 Questions and discussion
1:00 Buffet lunch
14:00 Parallel Symposia sessions:
Session 1: Family life: Intergenerational and gender dynamics
Trees V.M. Pels, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Moroccan families: Gender dynamics and fathers' roles in a context of
change
Zahida Shah, University of Southampton
British-Pakistani-Muslim women's role within the family and community
Saeed Zokaei and David Phillips, University of Sheffield
Altruism, intergenerational relations and social welfare policies among
Muslims in the UK
Session 2: International perspectives on Muslim communities
Fiona Anderson, Loughborough University
Bred to be in the house? Cultural relativism versus global human rights
and female ‘oppression' in modern Muslim society
Zafar Khan, University of Luton
Muslim presence in Europe: The British dimension
Christiane Timmerman, CASUM, University of Antwerp
The Islamization of modernity: Social networks among Moroccan and Turkish
women in Belgium
Farhat Yusuf, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Muslim families in Australia: A case study of Lebanese and Turkish
communities
15:15 Coffee/tea break
15:30 Continue Symposia
17:00 Plenary round table discussion
17:30 Informal session to answer questions about Islam and Muslim
families
18.00 Close
19:30 Dinner at a local restaurant
Saturday April 24
9:30 Coffee
10:00 Keynote address: Tariq Modood (University of Bristol)The place of
Muslims in British secular multiculturalism
10:30 Questions and discussion
10:45 Parallel Symposia sessions:
Session 1: Child welfare and education
Laila Abdelcader, University of Uppsala, Sweden
Independent schools in Sweden and the multicultural question
Kirsten Jeppesen, Danish National Institute of Social Research
Ethnic minority children in Denmark
Marie Parker-Jenkins, University of Derby
Children, Islam and education in Britain
Session 2: Contemporary social issues
Rudolf Richter and Johannes Pflegerl, University of Vienna
Migrant family structures in contact with Austrian institutions
Sarah Sheriff, Muslim Women's Helpline, Wembley, London
The Muslim Women's Helpline: A model of anti-oppressive care
Martha van Endt-Meijling, Windesheim University, The Netherlands
Genies, mother's little helpers?
12:30 Plenary closing session
1:00 Buffet lunch and close
Cost for attendance on Friday is £80; Saturday is £60. Concessionary
rates for students, voluntary organizations, and unemployed are £60 for
Friday and £45 for Saturday.
For further information and booking contact:
Jennifer Spiegel
diverCities Research Centre
Faculty of Environmental and Social Studies,
University of North London, Ladbroke House
62-66 Highbury Grove, London N5 2AD, UK
tel no: 0171 753 5061
fax: 0171 753 5176
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