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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.