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This may be of interest to members of the list. Please reply to Maja Cederberg [log in to unmask] Call for papers European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop In/equality for third country nationals: implementation and effects of EU directives on migration and asylum Oxford Brookes University 28-30 June 2010 Deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2010 This international, interdisciplinary workshop will bring together about 30 academics and policy makers from a number of different organisations and institutions located in the European Union, to discuss equality issues for third country nationals in access to key social goods, such as employment, education, health and housing. There is a substantial body of EC legislation which regulates access to social goods by categories, and the key concern of this workshop is to consider the extent to which such legislation has been successful in achieving its aims, particularly in regards to equality. The workshop will address the situation of legal migrants as divided into three main streams: asylum seekers and refugees, longterm residents and economic migrants, and family migrants. We hope that contributions to the workshop will be made by researchers working in two broad areas. The first includes research focused on the study of law and policy developments in relation to ethnic discrimination and/or migration policy, on a national as well as an EU level. The aim here is to analyse current law and policy, and address any shortcomings with regards to the question of equality in access to key social goods, and furthermore, highlight any discrepancies, on the one hand between different policy areas, and on the other between the EU and national level. An important question relates to the potential tensions between the EC framework concerned to ensure equality for third country nationals and the policy framework that surrounds migration on a national level. The second broad area of research is that focused on different forms of discrimination experienced by third country nationals legally residing in different EU countries. The aim is to fully understand both enabling and constraining effects of policy, as well as to highlight the potential discrepancy between laws and policies, on the one hand, and lived realities, on the other. We welcome papers addressing any of these issues. Please send your paper abstract (up to one page) to Sonia Morano-Foadi [log in to unmask] and Maja Cederberg [log in to unmask] before 1 March 2010. Our selection of papers will be based on their relevance to the workshop theme, but also done to ensure diversity in terms of both countries and academic disciplines and perspectives. Speakers will be asked to submit their paper two weeks in advance of the workshop. Travel and accommodation for all participants will be covered. -- The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW, UK.